As soon as I seen the drive pawls on my press I thought better grease those. Nice to see I'm not the only one who does even though Hornady says its not needed.
Thank you for posting these videos. I experienced all the problems you mentioned. I called Hornady and they mailed me new parts. I now know how to change the out thanks to you. Again thank you!
Hey Adam. Having an issue with my Hornady LNL AP and upon doing a search I ran across your maintenance videos. And like everyone else, let me say THANK YOU for making and posting them!!! That said, I hope taking it apart and doing what you did solves my problem? Well this along with getting some parts, hopefully for free, from Hornady? As my press, even though I did everything the instructions said when I first got it. but I'd add due to unforeseen circumstances, mainly, a couple neck surgeries, the press hasn't really been used. And tonight when I went to verify things from when I had set it up to load some .45acp, it was stiff as hell to the point the pawls chipped because the index wheel felt like I was churning gum and the pawls were popping on the index wheel at the bottom. And I've done no adjustments to the pawls as they are as they left the factory. As Indexing the Press was hard to do and as I said, so hard it was like I was churning gum and popping on the pawls. As I said, It's hardly been used so it's not like any foreign material, brass shavings, powder, etc., has or could have gotten into it. And the indexing system should have been greased, I'd of thought anyhow, from Hornady. Again, it's rarely been used since I got it for above stated reasons. And it's in the house so it isn't like it was frozen. So I hope and pray I'll get any and all parts free from Hornady and replacing them and doing the maintenance and lubing per your videos, this will solve the problem/s? Anyhow, in regards to the primer system, you state you don't use, and, not to use too much if any lubricant, for obvious reason/s, ie, because you don't want it to enter the primers. Obvious point. But I did want to ask what about using the Hornady Dry Lube or a light film of that good ole Mobil 1 5W30 where the primer tray meets its mating surface on the sub plate? Again, thanks doe the videos... On a side note, even though it's been in the house and hardly used, and something else I'm hoping Hornady honors and replaces, is the pistol micrometer metering insert, the outer dial, even though it's chrome and was in the house and wiped down and again, hardly touched, the damn outer dial rusted! If I could or can and knew how, I'd post pictures!
I’ve three of these presses and over 7 years have reloaded about 10,000 rounds a year I’ve never done any of this. How much do you reload? The only problem I’ve had is the plastic dome on top of the shell casing shuttle ram wears out surprisingly quickly, luckily my local Tacoma Screw Products has these random nylon cylinders I’ve been able to fashion into replacements.
interesting, I never greased mine except the outside of ram not long ago, put through maybe 5k rounds. I didn't even know those nipples are for injecting grease!
great video
thank you
Both videos, very well presented, and informative. My compliments also on speaking properly.
Thankyou so much for the good informative video
As soon as I seen the drive pawls on my press I thought better grease those. Nice to see I'm not the only one who does even though Hornady says its not needed.
Thank you for posting these videos. I experienced all the problems you mentioned. I called Hornady and they mailed me new parts. I now know how to change the out thanks to you. Again thank you!
Hey Adam. Having an issue with my Hornady LNL AP and upon doing a search I ran across your maintenance videos. And like everyone else, let me say THANK YOU for making and posting them!!!
That said, I hope taking it apart and doing what you did solves my problem? Well this along with getting some parts, hopefully for free, from Hornady? As my press, even though I did everything the instructions said when I first got it. but I'd add due to unforeseen circumstances, mainly, a couple neck surgeries, the press hasn't really been used. And tonight when I went to verify things from when I had set it up to load some .45acp, it was stiff as hell to the point the pawls chipped because the index wheel felt like I was churning gum and the pawls were popping on the index wheel at the bottom. And I've done no adjustments to the pawls as they are as they left the factory. As Indexing the Press was hard to do and as I said, so hard it was like I was churning gum and popping on the pawls. As I said, It's hardly been used so it's not like any foreign material, brass shavings, powder, etc., has or could have gotten into it. And the indexing system should have been greased, I'd of thought anyhow, from Hornady. Again, it's rarely been used since I got it for above stated reasons. And it's in the house so it isn't like it was frozen. So I hope and pray I'll get any and all parts free from Hornady and replacing them and doing the maintenance and lubing per your videos, this will solve the problem/s?
Anyhow, in regards to the primer system, you state you don't use, and, not to use too much if any lubricant, for obvious reason/s, ie, because you don't want it to enter the primers. Obvious point. But I did want to ask what about using the Hornady Dry Lube or a light film of that good ole Mobil 1 5W30 where the primer tray meets its mating surface on the sub plate?
Again, thanks doe the videos...
On a side note, even though it's been in the house and hardly used, and something else I'm hoping Hornady honors and replaces, is the pistol micrometer metering insert, the outer dial, even though it's chrome and was in the house and wiped down and again, hardly touched, the damn outer dial rusted! If I could or can and knew how, I'd post pictures!
I’ve three of these presses and over 7 years have reloaded about 10,000 rounds a year I’ve never done any of this. How much do you reload? The only problem I’ve had is the plastic dome on top of the shell casing shuttle ram wears out surprisingly quickly, luckily my local Tacoma Screw Products has these random nylon cylinders I’ve been able to fashion into replacements.
interesting, I never greased mine except the outside of ram not long ago, put through maybe 5k rounds. I didn't even know those nipples are for injecting grease!
What grease is used to lube the LNL?