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November 26th, 2006, 09:22 AM #1Senior Member
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Dillon550 primer drawback
I have just started experiencing what I feel is probably primer drawback or possibly lack of primer removal when reloading on my 550 and using dillon dies. What has me scratching my head is that it may happen maybe 5 times in 400 rounds reloaded so the problem is very intermittent. Has anyone else experienced this or have any ideas for me?
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November 26th, 2006, 02:35 PM #2
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November 26th, 2006, 09:28 PM #3Banned
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How many times have these cases been reloaded? Are your primer pockets full of crude? Are they out of round? Is the primer rod and wheel assembly as clean as it should be? Is the shell-plate free of crude and properly tightened? Could be a lot of things that, either, new brass or a good press cleaning would cure for you.
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November 27th, 2006, 09:33 AM #4Senior Member
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Re: Dillon550 primer drawback
I pulled the whole press apart and made sure all was cleaned and adjusted properly.
This particular brass is pretty new because it was reloaded from a case of once fired factory American Eagle/ Federal.
Thanks for the input so far but I just may be calling Dillon for some assistance.Last edited by CCinPA; November 27th, 2006 at 01:19 PM.
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November 27th, 2006, 11:28 AM #5Banned
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OK, now we;re getting somewhere! There's a little spring-metal, 'finger' on a Dillon primer feeder that needs to be adjusted to the exact width of a business card in order for each primer to be properly aligned and fed into place.
It's been my experience that if there's any crude under the primer feed wheel or if that little metal finger is, even slightly, out of adjustment then primers will not feed as smoothly as they should and may have trouble being properly installed.
Hope this helps.
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The best five bucks I ever spent was on Dillon's, 'How To Setup Your Press' video. I must have watched this tape, at least, a dozen times!
Here's the one for the RL 550B that you own.
http://dillonprecision.com/template/p.cfm?maj=12&dyn=1&Last edited by G21.45; November 29th, 2006 at 03:50 PM.
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