I have an AP, too. I had a similar issue. What I did was take the indexing divots on the plate and put a “comet trail” with a ball mill on a Dremel tool. It allowed a gradual slide into index and gets rid of the jarring.
I've got the same press. If you look at the shell plate you'll see two little balls that do the indexing on that shell plate. You can use a punch to drive them deeper into that shell plate. The deeper you drive them, the less of a 'snap' you'll get. No need to worry if you go too deep, you can just drive them out again from the other side. It's part of the design of the press. You can make it as soft, or hard, and index as you fancy. Here, I looked up a utube vid for you: czcams.com/video/XFFFS2YqDoU/video.html
I have an AP, too. I had a similar issue. What I did was take the indexing divots on the plate and put a “comet trail” with a ball mill on a Dremel tool. It allowed a gradual slide into index and gets rid of the jarring.
Thanks for that! I’d love to see it!
@@stricklyreloading8494 I can make a video sometime next week.
You can shim the drive hub to bring the subplate closer to the shellplate that can help.
I've got the same press.
If you look at the shell plate you'll see two little balls that do the indexing on that shell plate. You can use a punch to drive them deeper into that shell plate. The deeper you drive them, the less of a 'snap' you'll get. No need to worry if you go too deep, you can just drive them out again from the other side. It's part of the design of the press. You can make it as soft, or hard, and index as you fancy.
Here, I looked up a utube vid for you:
czcams.com/video/XFFFS2YqDoU/video.html
Thanks so much for the info! I’ll have to give that a try!
That’s what I did to mine and it works great.