Originally Posted By: pk1Not sure if the problem has been fixed but the Lee tool would occasionally ignite a primer and primers in the tray would then light off. I use the RCBS tool and like it a lot.
People read this stuff and repeat it and I wonder if anyone really knows of when and where that "occasionally" actually happened. Do you?
The distance between cup and cover of a Lee tool allows just enough room for a small primer to turn sidways. It can't happen with a large primer, which has bigger diameter, but it happens now and then with a small primer if you get to jostling them around a lot. If you're not paying attention, that sideways small primer can get seated in the case. And if you're a complete hamsfisted oaf who's not paying attention, I suppose it would be possible to squeeze it hard enough to ignite. But you'd really have to try hard, I mean really crunch down on it to make one go off. Now, if something is possible then someone sometime will probably do it. Anyone that stupid or inattentive ought not be reloading in the first place.....such a person should only be allowed plastic round-nose scissors.
