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Originally Posted by Tim Hancock View Post
Why was the Lee unit "leaking" powder Chris? Did it always spill a bit or did something break/wear out? While I have heard of occasional poor indexing and primer feeding, I have not read of anyone having problems with the powder system on the Lee progressives.
I have three of these Lee Perfect powder measures. The only one that leaks is the one that uses BL-C2, which is a small ball powder, and is mounted to a press.

I think it's a combination of a small powder and the way the press puts off-center pressure on the arm and opens a small gap (the whole thing is plastic) when dispensing powder.

Now, if you are ordering a press for a pistol caliber, you get the Autodisk powder measure, which is a completely different design and suffers from non of these problems.
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