This is great advice, and is exactly how I've learned the ins and outs of my 1050. I bought it back in January and at first was a little intimidated and frustrated by things like the ratchet tab catching. I spilled powder all up in the shellplate, crushed cases from the case plunger, etc.. but once I got comfortable breaking the machine down cleaning and changing toolheads I got those "Aha!" moments about how it works and operation has become a dream.
I was having case insertion problems initially (.308) and some adjustments fixed the problem for me. I tightened the shellplate locking nut and screwed in the indexing stop screw which is turned horizontally on the main body of the press underneath station 6, the empty check station. Also, at one point I had some powder in the ball+spring that indexes into the shellplate. When that didn't spring properly then the shellplate wouldn't index completely and cases would not get inserted into station 1.
thanks for the tips