JTinMO

FART. Good for 5+ years now and zero issues.

I toss any Norma 9mm brass when I find it. I've been getting really picky with what I keep these days. I probably have many thousands more 9mm brass casings than I will ever shoot in my lifetime at this point. No need to mess with problematic brass. The fine folks on here also recently convinced me to scrap anything that may need swaged as well. I just don't have the desire to mess with it.

It's kind of sad we have to do all this at the price they are. I've been a big winchester fan for all my life, and this just sours me on them.

Wow. A little grease on the camming surfaces and the Super Swage is a pleasant experience. Went from leaning on that handle every round to a two finger cycling in 10 seconds of greasing with a baby paintbrush. I wish I would have found out about this sooner. 10,000 rounds ago would have been much easier.

Down to the last 200 of these things to get loaded, then never again. I’ve learned my lesson on the win primers.

Got em. Ready to retire tomorrow.

I’m gonna buy a lottery ticket tomorrow. I just got through loading 100 223 rounds without a Winchester primer hanging up.

Any update?

maybe. To note, my primer pickup tubes are brand new. Less than a month old. CCI primers go through them easily without issue, but had 3 Winchester primers hang up in 3-100 packs now. Never at the same place in the tube. I ran CCIs last night at the end just to see if there were any issues and they fed easily.

So background here, I had this issue a few weeks ago loading 45ACP on my 550, and now last night on my 750. I am having primer feed issues only with Winchester primers. Both LPP and now SRP. Loading the primers the old school way with the primer pickup tubes, occasionally a primer will get stuck in the pickup tube while loading. It's definitely a primer itself gets stuck somewhere in the tube and I have to push it to get it to go through the tube into the primer tube in the Dillon. The same primers also cause issues periodically on the press when they refuse to drop through the plastic tip into the primer loading cup. It creates a big mess when the powder drops into a case without a primer when this happens. This is only happening with Winchester primers (LPP on my 550, and now SRP on my 750). Same issue both times. Never any issues in the same pickup tubes with CCI or Federal primers. The issue starts when they get hung up in the pickup tubes initially. Is this a specific issue with Winchester primers? I generally avoid them but have a couple K due to the shortages the last few years. Also - How do you clean a Dillon primer pickup tube? A .22 jag or patch end is too big for the tube. I can use it on the machine primer tube though. I don't see anything in the primer pickup tube but want to run something through there to clean it in case there's something I can't see.

Did you try tightening the shell plate down solid (may need to remove the ball and spring), like to where it can’t rotate, and try to size a piece? I think that would show if the base frame and shell plate are square to your tool head. Basically eliminate any potential of the shell plate tilting at all anywhere. from the pics your brass tilting is the issue, and not really something an alignment kit will fix necessarily. If your brass was straight vertically and hitting off center in the die, then the alignment kit can fix that and bring everything back in line. I don’t think it will fix a tilt issue. It’s almost like you have something under your shell plate causing a tilt.