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Unpacking and Assembly
1. Remove press from packaging, ensure all parts are present.
• Assembled All- American 8 Press (1)
• Handle with knob and jam nut (1)
• Primer Catcher (1)
• Primer Feed body (1)
• 10-32 mounting screws (3)
• Large Brass Primer Tuber with Cotter Pin (1)
• Small Brass Primer Tube with Cotter Pin (1)
• Small Primer Sleeve/Punch with spring.
This is installed in primer feed body from the factory
• Large Primer Sleeve/Punch with spring (1)
• Steel Blast Shield (1)
• 5/32nd Hex wrench (1)
• 1/16th Hex Wrench (1)
• Instruction Manual (1)
• Turret Handle (1)
2. Place press on reloading bench or other flat surface to make assembly easier.
3. Thread handle in toggle and tighten jam nut.
Press set up and use
1. Bolt press firmly to bench.
2. Insert shell holder into the slot at the top of the ram. It will snap into place.
3. Die set up; Follow your die manufacturers set up instructions for your particular die set.
4. To remove turret use a 7/8th socket or insert a screwdriver through hole in turret bolt.
Straight Line Primer Feed set up Instructions
1. Locate Primer Feed Body and three mounting screws. (photo 1)
2. The primer feed body comes with the small primer punch
installed at the factory. If you wish to install the large primer
punch prior to mounting the primer feed body to the press, you
have to unthread the knurled knob, remove spring and pull the
priming arm out of housing. Loosen the small set screw at the
bottom of the punch and remove small primer punch and install
the large primer punch.
3. Reinstall arm through the primer feed body, slide on spring and thread on knurled knob.
4. Place primer feed onto the press body and install the three mounting screws.
5. To load primers into the large or small brass primer tubes follow these steps; all primers to be
loaded into tube must be positioned with the anvil side down and smooth side up.
6. Making sure the cotter pin is installed into the brass primer tube. Take the split end of the
primer tube and place it over a primer and gently push down, the primer will snap into the tube
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