1. Mount your press on a sturdy bench.

2. Keep your press clean....free of spilled powder or primer residue....not to mention grit.

3. Lube the moving parts.

4. Now, is also a good time to tighten up loose nuts.

5. Keep the primer tray loaded up w/ primers........don't let the feed trough get half way empty..........gravity helps to keep the primers moving downhill. Re-fill the tray with only 50 primers at a time. Use a small screwdriver to hold back the primers in the magazine when you’re seating the magazine into the trough mouth.

The primers will seat.....as the handle is going up.....shell plate coming down.......you'll have to get to learn, "the feel of it."

6. Keep powder in the hopper..........make sure the powder isn't clumped and "bridging."

7. Keep brass in the magazine tubes........and don’t forget to turn to the next tube, when needed.

8. Bullets go on....one at a time.....have a good supply close by.

9. Use full, smooth and complete strokes. Unless there is a "good reason to".......don't go partial way and change directions......it'll ^%$& things up.

10. If and when you do ^%$& thing up.......remove the problem shells, make sure to check the indexing and primer feed area for a jammed primer. Clean off any powder spills or primer dust. Set the problem shells to the side........work on them "later." Before continuing with production.....try the press w/o shells to check the indexing.

11. After 1000s of rounds.........if you're having indexing problems..........you may need to change out those plastic cams.........change both of them, rather than one at a time.
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The LEE web sight sells the replacement parts.

www.leeprecision.com/cgi/catalog/browse.cgi?1217477485.785=/html/catalog/lp1000.html  

Click on the "serv. parts" for your caliber of machine.

Ratchet Gear $3 and Hex Ratchet 3 for .50......last time shipping was $4 and delivery was w/in a week via USPS.

Also, you might want to add some "set tension fingers" at 4 for $1, just in case.
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Don‘t forget.........Safety glasses.......and avoid distractions while re-loading.

Here is a good article on the LEE Pro 1000.........

www.geocities.com/leereloading/leepro1000.htm

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Buy several more of the "toothed" bushings- they wear out fairly quickly and are KEY to auto-indexing.

The biggest thing to remember with the Pro-1000 is to: TAKE YOUR TIME!

When the machine is running smooth, its hard to beat its production rate, but if you try to speed it up, you'll soon be in "OH, SHIT!" land.