myself Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 So I've had a Super 1050 for about a year and have only used it to process some .223 cases. I have the electric trimmer on it along with the carbide sizing die. When working the press manually everything seems great, uniform trimming and nice primer pocket swaging. When I hook up the ponsness warren auto drive the cases get trimmed less and unevenly. But the real problem is that the primer pockets dont get enough swaging no matter how well I adjust the punch. I made sure that the press cycles fully on both upstroke and downstroke. At least it appears to do so. I tightened the clutch on the auto drive as much as I could using a regular hex key. I am suspecting slippage but I am not sure. How have you all set up your 1050 to successfully process .223s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Freeman Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 I fought with mine for a long time. Gave up, sold it, and used the $$$ to buy a PW motor for my case-pro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lneel Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 I have only loaded about 1000 rounds on my auto-drive 1050 setup but I had had no issues. I am not trimming, just case gauging and tearing down rounds with brass that is too long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhenry132 Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Loosing battle. You will never get the power drive to be uniform on rifle brass processing it. Works on pistol but not rifle. If you tighten things too much things will start to break Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myself Posted February 1, 2013 Author Share Posted February 1, 2013 dhenry, I am starting to see that too. Well I guess I'll build some fore arms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
35WLN Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 So is the Autodrive good for loading pistol ammo or is it a frustrating battle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lneel Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Setup took a while but have loaded ~25-30k .38 SC on mine and I would never load without it again. Love it and my ammo s much more consistent than ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougCarden Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 I have a bunch of spare arms that I bought when I was running mine..... If you want to run rifle cases go to youtube, search for user CFORCHT, and look up my automated chain drive 1050 unit. That is what I processed 223 brass on when I was doing it. I don't have much good to say about the autodrive after fighting it for almost 2 years.... DougC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
addicted Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 I made my own auto drive and noticed the same thing with the swaging. Trim length was fine. The swage backup rod adjustment is critical, and if you look close you can see the crankshaft is short stroking and not hitting the stop on the bottom of the stroke. The shellplate is all the way up but the swager needs the extra few degrees of rotation top fully cam over. On my press there was also alot of play in the key that links the 2 pieces of the crankshaft. I added some set screws to eliminate that and it seemed to help, but in the end i just set the swage rod a little higher and ended up with acceptable, but not perfectly swaged pockets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franco79 Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 If you want to sell the ponsness warren, PM me So I've had a Super 1050 for about a year and have only used it to process some .223 cases. I have the electric trimmer on it along with the carbide sizing die. When working the press manually everything seems great, uniform trimming and nice primer pocket swaging. When I hook up the ponsness warren auto drive the cases get trimmed less and unevenly. But the real problem is that the primer pockets dont get enough swaging no matter how well I adjust the punch. I made sure that the press cycles fully on both upstroke and downstroke. At least it appears to do so. I tightened the clutch on the auto drive as much as I could using a regular hex key. I am suspecting slippage but I am not sure. How have you all set up your 1050 to successfully process .223s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hondaman Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Before hooking up the PW, pull the handle down so that you're at the bottom stop. Make a mark on the side of the swage assembly, and a mark on the crank so that you know that's what the bottom stop should be, Then hook your PW back up and see if you're hitting the same stop. In this pic, you can see where I made my mark on the swage assembly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmup68 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 great tip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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