I am going to try to be very delicate here as I am just short of a Lee Product hater after 40 years of using and selling Lee products. The only Lee products I currently use are the Martini and Snider dies, and even then only one die for certain limited operations.
I do not have one of these APP tool.
Looking at the pictures I would not be inclined acquire and try. The "press" is a C press and that type of press-from anyone has a history of not being very rigid when used for high stress operation such as decapping crimped primers, case forming, even full length resizing. I can't tell how the pocket swage works.
Added to the weak C press design is Lee's use of pot metal and cast zinc in stressed parts. Low strength and low durability.
For $4 more I would order Dillion's pocket swager and continue using your "O" press for decapping. This would also take up less room on the loading bench.
It would be a good "wring out" of that Lee tool to run all 300 lbs of that brass and see what if anything breaks. Prove me wrong.
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Douglas,
Gopher Damage Mitigator, Retired
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