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My process for the 550B is very close to your proposed plans. However, you implied that if you sized and de-primed using the 550, you wouldn't have to pull the brass out after each stroke. This would only be true if your plan is to continue the process with brass you're sure is not too long or needed the primer pocket de-crimped, or if the other dies were not in the toolhead.
If you planned to measure, trim, deburr, decrimp, etc. after you size / deprime, you'll still have to either: pull the brass out after each stroke or continue cycling with no other dies in the toolhead to the point they self-eject. Then you'd have to re-set the other dies when time comes to begin loading. That seems to be a bit more troublesome to me. I planned on this, I thought I could take the powder funnel out of the powder die, and the seat die shouldn't touch it since there will be no bullet on top, then they would cycle through and fall out on their own.
For what it's worth, I make full use of station 4 with a Lee FCD.
What kind of ammo are you putting together? Is this
blasting / practice ammo, target ammo, hunting ammo, or what?
How many rounds do you do at one time? 1000 [span style='color: blue;']
IMHO for most everyday ammo, you don't need to trim every time. I'd trim a batch to the same OAL length, then measure occasionally, and trim it all again if they're getting too long. [span style='color: blue;']I only trim as needed.
You also don't need to remove the crimp every time -
just the first time on a new batch of military ammo.
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If it were me, I'd deprime / size the whole batch on the single-stage, tumble it all, then finish the loading process on the 550.