having already installed a Uniflow Powder Measures with Hornady LNL Case Activated Powder Drop, I decided I needed to make a modest upgrade to my two 1982-84 RL450's. That upgrade being the completed ammo auto eject, which includes a new shell plate platform. After having completely disassembled, cleaned, lubed and mostly reassembled the first RL450, I realized the new platform does NOT have a place to install the "primer depth adjusting bolt".
Bottoming out the plate on the downstroke gives me nearly a 1/4" of the primer seater above the platform (cool if I were going to swage primer pockets I guess). Without the primer depth adjusting bolt to stop the platform's downward travel it is now bottoming out on a fully compressed primer cup spring. The height of the primer seater stem is not adjustable on the old push/pull primer systems. The stem is installed fully bottomed out in the slide and then held in place by set screw.
I have zero desire to go with the newer auto primer systems as the old push/pull's are bullet proof and 100% reliable (at least for me). And I really like being able to set the dead stop point that guarantees I never over-seat a primer.
Any old RL450 users out there who have installed the Auto Eject Platform and have already solved my problem. Barring a better idea, I plan to do some practice drill-n-tap work on the old shell plate platform to see if I will be able to modify the new platforms to accept the primer depth adjusting bolt.
Bottoming out the plate on the downstroke gives me nearly a 1/4" of the primer seater above the platform (cool if I were going to swage primer pockets I guess). Without the primer depth adjusting bolt to stop the platform's downward travel it is now bottoming out on a fully compressed primer cup spring. The height of the primer seater stem is not adjustable on the old push/pull primer systems. The stem is installed fully bottomed out in the slide and then held in place by set screw.
I have zero desire to go with the newer auto primer systems as the old push/pull's are bullet proof and 100% reliable (at least for me). And I really like being able to set the dead stop point that guarantees I never over-seat a primer.
Any old RL450 users out there who have installed the Auto Eject Platform and have already solved my problem. Barring a better idea, I plan to do some practice drill-n-tap work on the old shell plate platform to see if I will be able to modify the new platforms to accept the primer depth adjusting bolt.
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