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I’m the same way with the scales. Never thought about till now that you mention it.

Thank you, very good video!

Thanks for the video. I have been interested in reloading for a while now, but dont know where to start. It looks like this channel has lots of info. If anyone has any pointers to guide me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated

Put some of that purple stuff directly on your brass and see what happens...it for sure reacts with the metals in the brass and turns it all sorts of colors. No way I'd put it on my brass again. I will try it on my pins though. The Zep citrus cleaner works well on the brass and pins though.

Classic Cast has way more sex appeal. I recommend them to everyone. Its the only press you'll ever need... unless you want to step up to a full progressive.

This was extremely helpful, thank you very much!

I see you went back to the Ball handle. I too am an old Lee user operator, and def prefer the ball to the lever. I even bought a spare ball lever years ago to replace a handle, but need to get some gas for the torch to bend it properly. Thanks for the tips and info.

My 1970s MEC jr is the newest of my presses. Mine is a 20ga. I have a 12ga Texan press, a pair of Pacific presses in 12 and 16 and a monster cast iron 12ga press that the name escapes me. It weights more than the other 4 presses combined. It was great for processing hulls. I haven't touched it in years though. The others get used every now and then though.

great video TTF.

thanks for the video, always anxious for a new one, good story.

Hey Buddy! Good to hear from you. 🤛🏻🔫🇺🇸

Pretty cool story 😎 👌 👍

Best loader ever made, MEC never should have changed the design.

I started my reloading with shotgun as well. After my first gun a .22 bolt my parents bought me a 20 Guage 870 and I soon ended up with a MEC 600 Jr. like the one you have, and looking back was just as inept or worse than you. Killed a lot of doves, rabbits ducks, squirrels and barn pigeons though and plenty of White Flyer clay pigeons too with those less than perfect reloads.

I used to have the same press, it worked! It was also a huge improvement over the Lee hand loader kit I used for loafing 20 gage shells using a powder dipper and a plastic hammer.

Got one of them 20 years ago for $25 at a yard sale . I reload pistol and rifle on a lee turret press and a lee APP for depriming pistol brass.

Cool story. I really want one of these. Not too impressed with my Lee load all II.

I remember the summer of 1980, it was absolutely brutal in texas, I started loading 12 ga on a mec just like that in 1984, my neighbor's press and he taught me

I started back in 2018 reloading shot gun then moved onto pistol and now rifle..... I found reloading shot gun loads fun and easy. I started on a Lee Load All press and then moved to a Mec 600 Jr because I found trying to crimp new hulls were difficult with the Load All. I love reloading for buckshot and slugs. Minnesota is great for shot gun hunting.. I had someone 3D print me some powder adapters. better than buying each ones for $5-6. Ballistic Products Inc is the best place to get all your shotgun components..... like that brass star crimper. I like to find another older machine for a stand alone prep machine...

I started reloading in mid 1970's but didnt start Shotgun till early mid 1980's. On a LEE wack a Mole 20ga. And wuickly found a MEC and toDay I have a BUNCH of them!! Dedicated 410, 20, 16, x2- 12-2 3/4, 12 3" and a 10ga. Most MEC 600's. I pretty quickly bought the adjustable charge bars with accept-ion of my trap load machine.

Hello Stranger!

Still have several bushings. Some with masking tape on the inside to lessen the charge, some round filed out to increase the charge. Went to the adjustable some time ago.

Well I started my reloading when I was sixteen years of age and now I am seventy seven. You are right we didn't have videos back then but we had a lot of printed material and that's how I got started.

Growing up in Minnesota shotgun was the first thing I started with for reloading

Just an FYI....Lee currently has the 5 hole turrets on closeout pricing.

Outstanding video! Thank you for covering the adjustment of metering. Most of the videos here do not cover adjusting for weights. Thank you for sharing this. See you on RN. 🙏✌️

Hey so im getting into reloading and going with the classic turret because im doing 30-06 Im getting dies do i need the bushings or do the dies jist screw in?

I relocated to NZ and had to start all over with reloading. Had a mate pass a brand new Lyman poweder dispencer to a friend. I picked the unit up and was in love with the build. Ps. Nice review

I know this is an old video but I absolutely love the 7.62x25 tokarev I've know about this cartridge since the early 90's ,I love the cfe pistol I use it in my 9mm ,38 ,and 380 acp ,I also like the cfe 223,and cfe blk I 7.62x39

Thanks brother. Two really good ideas I took away from this video were the bin strips on the bench (Im thinking of using washers as my spacers) and the TUL Notebook System (which I had no idea about). Great video. - Jace

More Importantly your die set up sucks. set up your seating die so it bottoms out on the press. before the ram stops hit. 🙄I'd recommend using Lee bullet seating dies that don't have the stupid roll crimp built in.

nice job. Answered a lot of questions in a simple, hands on use of the tool. Thank you.

I feel like LEE is like a software developer that puts out a product and depends on users to provide the beta testing and then they try to engineer out the problems. I own and use a number of LEE reloading products, including the most feared progressive press, the LoadMaster. The all time best product I use is the original LEE hand primer. The new hand priming tool is much worse. It flips primers on their side and upside down 6 to 7 percent of the time. The worst thing I think LEE has produced is any of the on press priming systems. I don't even attempt to try user fixes any longer. It's no wonder LEE archived the LoadMaster press. My LoadMaster runs like a charm as long as I am not priming on it. I have a "green" single stage press with a primer tube that is pointed at my face but it has never failed. It is circa 1974. I just wonder if the LEE priming system engineer is proud of his work or if he woke up one morning and said "crap, my name is on that forever"?!

I'm still a huge fan and follower. Thanks TTF.

I was doing research on what turret press to buy, 4, 5, 6 7, place or whatever. This press is great, you can change out the number of turret positions without having to buy a whole different press. You have made my mind up which press to buy.

You can get the cleanest results by using a small amount of dawn dish washing detergent and a small amount of brasso. I also put 4 ,1 inch squares of a dish scrubbing pad. Sponge on one side and scotch bright on the other. Looks like new😮.

For the Frankford Arsenal rotary tumbler, I use 8 lbs pins, not 5. Teaspoon of dawn, 9mm caseful of lemishine and a 2 hour run. Separate the media using a frankford arsenal quick n ez media separator installed in a 5 gallon bucket. Tumble brass, dump into the separator, rinse in the tub and it all goes down the drain. Dry brass in a food dehydrator after a shake in a towel. Brass gets shiny, stainless pins get cleaned too.

Great video, lots of good info and insight and nice, thoughtful bench set-up. Thank you.

What I love about the reloading community, whether you have a high end room or a small space in a closet. It’s that at the end of the day we have to same mind set. Enjoyed your video and great reloading setup up. Happy Holidays!

Can you explain how you use the graphite dry lube spray, spray top to bottom minus hopper or spray on Que tips ?

Was the rbcs new also

Great video! I've had the classic turret for about 3 years now. After i got it, i fairly quickly moved on to a dillon xl 750. Just a couple weeks ago i dusted off the turret and started loading 6 arc on it and fell in love with it all over again. Nice to know Lee keeps progressing in case i manage to sell my old 4 hole to one of my newbie friends. New subscriber!

Man, what a great video you have a lot of great ideas. I hope some people watch it. I thought I had watched it before but apparently I missed it. Thanks for all the good ideas.

Great video. I have an old Lee Reloading Press and was looking to get a progressive, and now I like the turret presses. Which Lee Turret Press do you recommend for loading 223 and 9mm for someone getting into reloading?

Good evening, here in Brazil we are also having problems with this press, but we have a colleague who developed the solutions. I will leave his link so you can see these solutions! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWGXl31-od-Vqa8

Been reloading for 20 years. Forget the turret press. Its too much to keep track of all at once. Buy 2 single stage presses, one for deprime/resize and 1 for bullet seating. Case prep and cleaning gets in the way of turret press operations anyway since you have to deprime to clean the primer pocket and trim.

i want to make something similar. i want it to fit into a pelican 1510 carry on hard case. iv been using a arbor press and L.E.Wilson in line dies. i think would work good with a set up like this. i want to adjust the seating depth at the range. i really like the Harrels mini press. it clamps on a table top. that lee hand press is very slick idea. electric scale and powder drop. very nice. every one needs one.

Important tip: avoid any cleaning solution with ammonium hydroxide like the plague (it is very common in metal “shampoos” sold along wet tumblers as an additive to common dish washer): it attacks the metal and leaves a thin layer of grey/silver residue on the brass that will stay in your fingers and inside your dies. I found out this by accident: when I ran out of the “shampoo” that came with the tumbler, I used common dish washer detergent (like Dawn in the US) since the other ingredient was the same. Only then I realized how this batch of brass wasn’t making my fingers dirty. I always thought that the stainless steel media was probably responsible for this residue and throughly cleaned it with degreaser to no avail. One last thing: some polishing products like Brasso (used in dry tumblers) have <2% of ammonium hydroxide. While in theory this could make the brass brittle, I still haven’t seen evidence that the stress corrosion is significant enough to cause neck splits before normal stretching from multiple resizings forces the case to be retired anyway. Ammonium hydroxide is a common cleaner for brass, but it was not intended for cartridges.