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I’m currently reloading RST 16 gauge 2 1/2” shells
on a Mec Sizemaster with a lift kit. Slow and steady.

Will a lift kit fit on an 8567, you know, the one with the manual carousel?
Sure would like to crank them out faster.


1oz, 7/8 and 3/4 loads. Light shot loads with the assistance of a pinto bean for better crimps.

I don’t believe it would work since the plate is all connected. You could call MEC to find out. Maybe you could make a lift kit somehow.


Ken

Bob:

Sorry for the tardy post, but Ken is correct. The plate you have is designed for the single stage presses from MEC. I am not aware of a different plate designed for any of the progressive MECs. That said, one could make their own plate. On a progressive press you would need a plate to cover all but the priming the station (a MEC 650) or all but the collet and priming stations on those with collet resizers. (9000s and grabbers, etc...) You would also need a shorter main spring to allow for the 1/4" plate to fit. You may need to adjust your final crimp station as well.

Or (Option B) you can just leave your progressive press as is and simply load 2 3/4" once fired hulls trimmed down to 2 9/16" with 2 3/4" load data and simply add an overshot card prior to crimping the shells. No changes needed to the press or recipe. They are not as pretty as roll crimps, but they work just effectively without adding noticeable increases in pressure over a standard fold crimp.

Option B is what I prefer when reloading on my progressive presses.

2 1/2” hulls ride the carrousel through the 4th stage first crimp.
After that it's 1 pull 1 shell (sort of). Switch to the two crimping stations on a single stage lifted machine.
Half as many pulls as loading on a single stage exclusively and zero slapping of the charge bar.

Problem solved!