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Originally Posted by CrustyFN
I would add in a few of the plastic ratchets. They are cheap to get when ordering other items. If you order the alone then the shipping will cost more than the ratchet.
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You do get one spare square ratchet with the press. I put mine on the indexing rod, way up at the top. It is out of the way and won't be lost when I ever need it.
The square ratchet is designed to break if the turret rotation gets jammed up. (Like a fuse protects the electrical wiring in your house). Better to break a 50 cent plastic piece than a $6.00 indexing arm.
But you can go YEARS without breaking one if you don't jam up the turret or try to hand-rotate it backwards.
If you do need to rotate it backwards, just make sure the ratchet is not engaged with the notches (which you can't see because they are inside the indexing arm). You just make sure the most recent movement of the ram was UP, not down and your square ratchet should last years.
Up disengages the ratchet. The notches are on the "ceiling" of the indexing arm and when the ram moves down, the ratchet drags on the indexing arm and is pressed up into the notches. Simple, but a little hard to describe in text.
The Lee Classic Turret is the best currently made autoindexing turret in the world, bar none. Of course, the only other autoindexing turret is its own (inferior) predecessor, the Lee Deluxe Turret. If you only need 4 die stations consider it.
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