Mark 7 Apex 10 Loading Machine - Deep Dive

Some additional information: Cost - these may have been hard to read: Total cost for everything to date w/ shipping & taxes: $13,583 This includes 3 calibers: 5.56/2.23, 300 Blackout, and 9mm. The toolhead set I showed included: The Die Pack - .223 De-capping Die Power Trim Express Manual Powder Measure (2) Spare Toolheads (2) Toolhead Stands Powdersense Tax Total: $2,126 The comparisons assumed no brass cost. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01: 37 Remove toolhead 07:16 Install Toolhead A 09:30 Reloading Recipe 10:21 Process Rounds 12:38 Remove / Install Toolhead B 13:21 Mr. Bulletfeeder Problem 14:07 Toolhead B Dies & Sensors 18:22 Seating Die Problem 21:15 New Recipe 21:39 Process Rounds 22:18 Sensor Alarms 25:02 Costs 27:40 Summary Mark 7 Tech support reached out to me with the following helpful comments about this video: -When setting up the bullet sense, we can make it a little more sensitive by increasing the height of the sensor head. By allowing the laser to shoot over the top of the bullet, reflect off the mirror and become blocked on the return path, a perfect shadow profile of the bullet will be cast on the sensor. This is a great indicator to show if an upside down or crooked bullet will be detected. -If you get cases falling out of the shellplate, this could be due to a couple things. Inspect the rims of those pieces of brass to make sure they are dent bent or damaged. When this happens, check that particular pocket of the shellplate and make sure there is no debris (brass slivers) hidden in the pocket that could keep it from seating properly. -Mark the suspect shellplate pocket with a sharpie and see if it is the same pocket if and when the problem repeats. -Anytime you remove the case feed housing, be sure to apply upwards pressure on it when re-securing the bolts. This will ensure the brass is making a step down into the shellplate and not having to step up which may cause unreliable insertion into the shell plate. -If a lot of cleaning errors are being detected by the Decap sense, a deeper internal cleaning may be required. You can remove the sensor from the press and disassemble the two halves. Inside you will find a square quartz lens tubing that protects the sensor from debris. Sometimes dirt will make its way to the outside of this lens where it can not be cleaned off during normal cleaning. Wet washed brass may also leave water droplets behind and fog up the lens. -On the primer Xpress ramp cover, the sensor lowest on the ramp with the 3 pin connector is an upside-down sensor. When the height of this sensor is set correctly, this should stop and cause an alarm to alert the user to correct the upside-down primer before it makes it way into a piece of brass. -If there is a missing primer in the case, it can be difficult to remove from the shell plate, but it is possible. If it is really stuck by the probe, you can very slightly and gently, index the shellplate forward manually. This will cause the probe to retract and allow the case to be removed much more easily. I also like to keep a few pieces of brass handy that have completed different stages (especially priming) so I can slip a piece in to replace the piece that cased the stoppage and not have the empty slot making its way around and tripping the other sensors. -I noticed your bullet feeder filter is not installed and your tablet USB cable is zip tied to other cabling. If you are not running into "console not responding" errors and stoppages on the tablet, you can leave them as is. If that error message does begin to occur, the place we want to start is to get the bullet feeder filter installed in line with the switch and allow any USB cables to become free standing so as not to allow EMI to be introduced into the system. #Apex10 #reloading #Mark7 Disclaimer: This is not an instructional video. It is intended for ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. DO NOT rely on any of the data or illustrations shown for any purpose. The opinions are strictly my own. No one has provided me with any of the products shown for production of this video.