BPSReloading

Two years and counting on my Lyman, 300-500 9mm brass at a time, 1.5 to 2.5 hours per use.

That’s a great way to go, I have a few Lee progressives for making 45 Colt and 38spl/357 mag. I have the spare tool heads for the Mark7 to do 300blk. case converting, and 223/5.56 loading, just haven’t tried it out yet full scale. I also have 380 ACP for the Mark7 on another tool head, ready to install, just need to make time to run another 2k 9mm then swap over.

@Atlas33Mark7 Apex 10 I’ve been running mine for 18 months now, minimal maintenance, as with any setup. It is updated with any and all primer feed components (free from Mark7, great customer service) I added the tool head LED light kit from Double Alpha. I can’t think of anything else I’d change, the press just works, and it works very well. Single-digit standard deviation 9mm ammo is easily achieved. I load 4.3 grains of AA#2 with a 124 grain Berry’s bullet, consistently get 1075 fps with a STD of 7.6 out of a FN 509 MRD.

Mark7 Apex 10

No Photo…. I have four sets of Pro Dies, zero issues with any of them.

I purchased the Apex 10 kit from DAA along with an additional light for spare tool head. It works very well, can dim it to the desired brightness. It floods the entire shell plate are with good lighting, can see powder charges very easily.

Kevin and crew are top notch, they’ll issue an RMA to A3GMunitions in Georgia, cost me $10 to ship, was returned to me in three days, nitrided die and base will resolve the wear issue.

They replaced my dies (base ring included) with nitrided ones too, (9mm, 223) everything works as intended now... happy customer.

Very nice! I’m going to wire a push button momentary switch for the motor rotation jumper, much like the Mark 7 case feeder has.

Thanks!

@Farmerthanks... the angle brackets are off the shelf shelve brackets from Home Depot, and are already painted gloss black. They cost $2 each, and the coupling does NOT have any keys installed... it will slip with the lightest of blockages, even less than the hand crank. Anyone with experience cranking these manually can attest to crushing a case before you have a chance to catch yourself and reverse the handle. Not so with the slipper coupling... 8500 pieces processed and a couple of slips due to what I can only say is Glock +P self defense loads that generate a very pronounced bulge.

Hand cranking the manual unit results in approximately 90-100 rpm... the motor and gearbox duplicates this... and to some degree, it’s actually a little slower than hand cranking. The coupling will slip long before any gearbox damage can occur.... So, no... this will not “shorten” the life of the manual gearbox. I simply automated a person manually cranking it, and added a mechanical fuse. I did not speed things up, nor increase the input torque.

I used the 250 watt motor and gearbox from Amazon, shaft coupling came from there too. Gearbox output shaft is 135 rpm at full speed, which works perfectly. Coupling is set to slip if roll sizer jams. I have processed 8500 9mm this far, zero problems from motor or roll sizer.