New Lyman All-American press

Large nut with also a hole through it. Got to get it off somehow
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I do not know what area of the country you live in but if you are near-by let me know. I am located in north east Dallas, Tx.

F. Guffey
 
I do not know what area of the country you live in but if you are near-by let me know. I am located in north east Dallas, Tx.

F. Guffey
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Very kind of you to offer--I live in Coastal Maine though. I did live in north Addison for a few years back in the 80's. ;)
 
After putting a heavy duty monkey wrench on the lock nut and giving it a solid whack with a hand sledge hammer--I finally busted the turret lock nut loose!

Here is the culprit--the indexing bearing is stuck down in it's hole--I'm guessing the counter-sunk hole was just the right size to allow the bearing (which I assume has a spring under it) to lock into it with enough pressure. I've only put maybe a thousand or so cartridges through the press since I got it--hard to believe it would fail so quickly.

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Follow-up--just called Lyman--turns out they had a bad batch of presses go out with the wrong-sized holes, and lucky me (as is often the case LOL) I ended up with one of the defectives. They said they would send me a new as soon as they are done making them. Lucky for me I still have my 1o year old lee anniversary press which I bought for $79 and has never failed me, as slow as it is. :)
 
At least you'll get a free press out of it.

Ream (or even just hone) the hole, reassemble, and drive it like you stole it.
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Don't even try it. It's even worse than the internet would lead you to believe.
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Wishful thinking--I have to send the defective one back. :D
 
I like the press--when it works. The only thing I DON'T like is their scheme for primer seating, between filling the tube by hand and the positioning directly in front of the press (in the way of the ram and die) definitely a bad design IMO.
 
Redding's priming system is similar for the T-7 turret. I elected to skip it, and stuck with hand priming.
I recently picked up an RCBS 'automatic' bench priming tool, though. I haven't touched the hand priming tool or primed a single case on the press since that thing showed up...

Loading tubes is tedious. But I like the tool enough that it really isn't a complaint.
 
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