BobMoore

Agreed - Lyman's included catch pan is too small and fills up quickly if unattended, making a mess. I use the top of my RCBS Rotary Media Separator to catch the media coming out of the Lyman 2200 empty port while the 2200 is still running, and I have no spillage at all. The RMS top is much larger than Lyman's catch pan (meaning no attention is required) and the shape makes a natural spout for emptying later. This happens very quickly, even with a full load. There is, however, still some media in the bottleneck cases. It is at this point that I continue running the 2200 to de-burr the case mouths from the trim operation, if this is an after-trim polish operation.. Then I open the 2200, and dump the residual media and the brass into the basket of the RCBS Rotary Media Separator, with the basket sitting in the bottom clam shell. I restore the media to the 220, and put the now empty top on the RMS. I turn the handle a few times to removes th rest of the media with the RMS. Still no spillage, and fast and easy. Deburring for free. Try it!

I have a Lymann 2200 with the autoflow "feature". It is quiet, and works well. From a YouTube video "High Volume 223 on a Hornady..." I saw that, while using the tumbler to remove lube, the drain plug could be removed, draining most of the media, and, if there was enough brass, the brass-to-brass tumbling would remove the burrs from the Dillon size/trim-die (previous step). Well, it works. One boring operation completely eliminated! The brass is not damaged and keeps its mirror-finish. Using the RCBS lube die (keeps the case feeder clean) and the Dillon trim/sizing die (buy the carbide die, not the steel one) eliminates several more. A Hornady bullet feeder and an extensively modified Lee case turner/feeder makes a quiet, inexpensive imitation of the system in the YouTube. The setup on a Lee loadmaster is laborious, but doing batches of 1,000 is not so bad. Three inexpensive LoadMasters means no repeat setup at all. Steps for me: 1) Deprime and watch for bad extractor grooves, which would cause trouble later - Exposes primer pockets to cleaning 2) Clean (RCBS ultrasonic), rinse, dry and polish (corn cob, Rooster Brite) - cleans inside and keeps corn cob clean longer 3) Swage (RCBS swage die on a turret), inspect for bad cases, and sort by headstamp - a slow manual process 4) Lube/trim/size in one progressive pass 5) De-burr and clean off lube (corn cob) in Lyman 2200 6) Case gauge check (Dillon, Lee or Wilson, since EGW fails every case) - still manual process, done here saves disassembling cartridges 7) Neck expand with Lee size die partially inserted (also cleans out media), prime, powder, bullet, crimp in one progressive pass - sadly, no powder cop 8) Weigh (for QC) and put in ammo cans Of course if you re using known brass, not range brass, some steps are not needed. And a Dillon 1050 would combine the manual swage step (3) with the following step (4) and add a spot for the powder cop. Still need multiple passes for step 5.