The problem is not in the star gear or pawl contact points that is rapidly wearing, but the through channel in the bottom of the ram for the drive shaft that is wearing instead.
Note, short of a crash that someone is trying to brute force through.

Hornady did not use a replaceable bushing for this bearing contact area, and as the star gear is being pushed fore and aft on the drive shaft, this cause the drive shaft to egg wear the through channel to allow the entire drive shaft to be able to be pushed more fore and after in the channel with the star gear in tow, causing all the need for the pawl readjustments instead.

Worse yet, most will not take the time to pull the machine down to this point to clean and re-grease the contact parts of the shaft to bottom of ram through channel say every 10k rounds, causing the faster wear as well.

Advantages of the 1050, it has a swager as one of the stations, and solve a lot of problems with pick up brass that the primer pocket may still be crimped.  
Also robust too, so will last most non-comercial reloading well more than a life time before they wear out the major parts like the ram and body to have to worry about a warranty.

The disadvantage on the 1050 over a 650, gets expensive as fuck really quick as you start building up separate loaded tool heads (just the 1050 tool head itself is $200, while the 650 tool head is  $26 instead), and if you have to change the machine out from the primer/swager size its set up in, to the other primer/swager size instead, lets just say bring a snack since you still have some tweaking to do to get the primer punch/swager set correctly again as well.  

Fact is, the whole getting the primer and swager reset from small to large and back again for another caliber is such a choir, that most that run 1050's, just get a second machine to leave them set up each in  both small and large swager/primer sizes instead.   Or once the machine is set up for a swage/primer size, run  ammo batches by the thousands in that primer size before they even think about swapping out the bottom end again.

Just to point out, in all his videos, he never addresses the problems on a case feed system, since he does not use one.
This is the huge rub between a LNL and 650, since the 650 case feed system works very well, while the LNL case feed system is just like the rest of the machine, requiring a hell of lot of adjustments and tweaks to not only get it first to run correctly, but keep is running correctly as well.

So to sum it up, 650 with case feeder, and LNL with case feeder are close to the same amount of money to begin with.  
The difference, the 650 will run right out of the box once you adjust it the first time, while the LNL is going to need a lot of tweaks and adjustments to not only get it to first run, but keep it running as well.

Truth is, if you are not going to use a case feeder, then the RCBS 2000 is a hell of lot better and safer machine than the LNL.  
If you want case feeding, then you want the 650 isntead.


Hence, everyone sees the low price of the LNL without case feeder and why they buy it to begin with.  For slower loading, and the fact that is can have you chasing your tail from time to time to keep it running, they will stick with the machine for this slower pace of reloading.  

Its when its time to add a case feeder to the LNL, and pick up the pace on the machine, that you run into the hurdles of the LNL that only tweaking the system with mods can over come, and where the 650 out of the box that runs without mods makes more sense isntead.

So to sum it up, if one has reached to the point that they are going to run a case feeder, needs the quicker reloading pace, then it time to sell the LNL, move to a 650 instead.    As for jumping to a 1050 at that point instead, whole different ball game, since you better have money to burn (not the reason that picked up the LNL in the first place), and plan on dropping close to $4k in the machine/parts (including trimmer and trim dies) for just a few calibers to get you started instead.

Truth is, most that pick up a 1050 are way out-gunning their needs to begin with, and most end up selling the 1050 to go back to a 650 isntead.  Hence the   over all cost of 650, verses the 1050 when you have both set up, is less than half the cost.  As I pointed out, just a tool head for a 1050 is $200, while a tool head for a 650 is only $26 instead.  Add in the fact that is a PITA to change out primer/swager to go from small to large and back on the 1050, and if someone was just loading say 1K or smaller lots of ammo per sitting that requires a primerwswager size changes as well, the 1050 really makes not sense for them isntead.

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