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    DILLON 650 TROUBLES-HELP

    in Dillon Precision Reloading Equipment

    Posted · Edited by gdedrick

    Ok, still not sure what you are saying about the case feed but maybe I have an idea. If the feeder is dropping brass down the tube but it is not feeding properly onto the case slider, maybe try this idea. The beveled plastic piece that moves up & down that is attached to the case slider has two sides to it. Be sure you have the correct side toward the press. The long bevel works for rifle brass, the short bevel for pistol. It also has an adjustment to it. If it is too close to the press, it tries to drop brass but it wedges it against the side of the hole. If it is too far away, it doesn't activate the drop enough to actually drop the brass. Check out those adjustments if I made any sense at all. I think perhaps I should go to the dillon website & get the correct name for the parts so I could make better suggestions.

    Keep at it, I think you have the press going your way now. Tweak the little things as you go along & you should be making mucho ammo/hr soon.

    Not sure why your OAL would be varying, though. Of course, if you were not getting complete full strokes up & down every time you pull the handle, you will get variations in length. Depending on what kind of bullet, you could probably hand feed your loaded rounds back into the press at the bullet seating station & finish seating the rounds to correct length. This is probably only a good suggestion if you are loading Jacketed bullets, not plated or lead ones. Either of those will scrape lead off the bullet since these rounds are already crimped. If they are jacketed rounds, just push the bullet on down where it should be, & let it recrimp. Again, I'm using the wrong word of course. You probably should not really be crimping but merely removing all the bell from your brass if you are loading normal pistol ammo. If you are loading for ultra high pressure pistol rounds or rifle rounds, crimp may be the right word. Sort of depends on what you are doing.

    MLM

    Thanks. This was really helpful.

    I had set up my caliber conversion to 45 ACP from 9mm and first 100 rounds ran great. Had 2 jams of brass (40 size) that had to clear. Then, it would not drop brass onto the shell plate. Made the adjustments to silver aluminum piece (body bushing) you screw from underneath in station 1 (your comments were helpful to know which direction to go with it). Now, it works great.

    Greg

    R-P headstamp and sizing die on 650

    in Miscellaneous BEginners

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    Hi Greg,

    On my 650s, I set the sizing die so it contacts the shell plate enough so you feel the handle slightly "cam over" on the downstroke with no brass in the press. IOW, it contacts the plate very firmly! If that doesn't get it down enough, the brass needs to go to the recycler as it is bulged too much. HOWEVER, this only applies if the rounds don't fit because they are bulged too low. Resize a couple pcs of empty brass & check them in your chamber checker. If they fit empty but don't fit after you load them, it isn't a problem at the bottom of the brass but perhaps the bullet seated offcenter or oversize bullets. I use a lee FCD die at the end to prevent that from happening.

    If the brass is bulged too much at the very bottom, it could well have been shot through an automatic weapon where support is minimal or could have been very hot rounds originally.

    Holler at me if you want to work on this in person. I'm always round!

    Mark

    Thanks Mark. We'll do that and see where the problem is.

    Greg

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