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I wore out a primer indexer due to lack of grease and a high round count. I'm much more careful now.
I don't think grease would help that one, though!
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Here's a look at the primer tube, removed from the steel magazine. You can also see ripples in the aluminum outside of the area that was ripped open.
I had no bench or ceiling damage, so all that remains is a very vivid memory! (There were no external flames, either.)
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So it chain-fired across the plate and up through the tube?
That is what usually happens on the 650.
I took the mechanism apart to see if I could see what happened. It looks like the next one to exit the tube tipped sideways and caught on the plate. It's possible it came across the plate but it is hard to tell.
I replaced the primer system and finished my loading, but with a little more caution!
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It was a xl650, and it certainly got my attention. I was pissed because it was my fault.
I just can't get a smooth flow with full .223 cases and priming is never smooth. I've tried all kinds of things, but loading .223 is always a chore. These are my prairie dog loads so I have to power through 1,000 rounds.
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of primers. I am thankful Dillon did their engineering on the primer magazine.
I was loading .223 with full cases of H4895, and, the occasional powder spillage made operation not as smooth as I like. Apparently a primer jammed sideways ands I used too much force in the my regular rhythm. Bang. Other than a primer assembly that will be landfill fodder, and a primer sensor rod that resembles a mountain road, no other damage.
I was loading CCI BR4's and it seemed they varied quite a bit more in size than I remember. I had to do quite a bit of tweaking on my RF-100 to make them flow through. The sizes and the powder made the priming not as smooth as normal (and that is what caused the powder spillage, not the shell plate). It sure doesn't take much powder to foul the 223 shell plate and small primers.
I already emailed Dillon for the parts. I sure wish I lived in Scottsdale!
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Confirm your shellplate is centered with the priming punch. You may have drifted slightly out of alignment.
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I'd be hard pressed to do 800, but I can do 650 without too much trouble on my 650. I can't comment on the Hornady as I don't have any direct experience.
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The old style that is pressed together is not particularly serviceable. Dillon will replace it with the newer style punch for you. As I understand it, the new style is more servicable. I'm curious as to whether or not we could take the old style ones with a little crud in them and drop them into an ultrasonic cleaner and let the sonic action help work the gunk out. Thoughts?
That's worked for me. I follow up with ultrasonic oiling, too, since the metal is left bare.
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It isn't like the guy is going to be sitting on the floor tossing power into the air.
At least not yet!
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I thought about it, too.I apologize but I can't help myself - is that a gas line leading to a gas water heater? With a pilot light?
If it makes you feel any better, I thought the exact same thing and somehow refrained from making a comment.
I never leave powder or primers in the press except when actively loading, and when the press was on the bench it was only a few feet further away.
The pilot has only been on 18 years at this point, with tens of thousands of loads. I don't have a basement or a spare room, so the garage it is. I wish I had a better choice.
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Bench space is at a premium and I was looking through the Blue Press at the Big 50 pedestal so I decided to put this together. I thought I would keep my strong mount so I would have a little storage.
In spite of the weld and the plates there is a little more movement than I'd like. I'm going to replace the wood with some steel (there is a steel plate under there, I should have made it bigger).
At least no one will drive into the hot water heater now.
I couldn't find any blue powder coat!
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I have 1-5 and a micro led gooseneck for #6.
Each thing helps a little, together they help a lot. I was skeptical about the low mass ball but it does matter.
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Garage here in Washington State. The gun safe is in the house.
We don't have any temperature swings that really affect the garage to such an extent it is unusable. I will occasionally have to warm the area with a heater before I start work.
Since houses here generally don't have basements, storage is at a premium. Garages are often not used for cars!
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Sounds like this is another of those "missed" marketing opportunities.
I was wondering, "What you would be willing to pay for an armoire set up to do this?" The biggest problem that I see in selling these is the shipping. Maybe a kit that could be assembled?
Humm...... the rusty wheels in my brain are slowly turning here.
I would bet you could sell 50 or so without much trouble. It is a nice looking piece.
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The contents of the caliber change kits are listed in the 650 manual. You can easily see exactly what parts are contained in the kit and whether or not you have the necessary components. If you want to select in a "mix and match" mode you can often reload many different calibers. There used to be a Windows program around that figured it out for you based on what you had.
In the long run I end up buying the conversion kit whole so when I swap calibers I swap everything I might need and keep it all together in the box. I have more than a few calibers, though. If I had the four you mentioned I probably would mix and match.
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Great advice, as usual. I didn't think about it and it wasn't as much of a problem the last time I loaded this particular charge. However, it was a different lot of powder. I am in no particular hurry - I will just need to be conscious of the speed.
My haunted machine is flipping primers now, about 3-4 out of 100. It didn't do that before so I pulled everything apart, cleaned it, and put it back together. I also cleaned up the chamfer on the holes on the primer disc. They were a little chewed up.
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I was cranking away loading .223 for my next prairie poodle hunt. I use 26.5 grains of H4895 which is a full case. It was one of those days where powder is spilling, cases are tipping, and primers are doing whatever the hell they want.
While tending to other stuff I managed to run out of powder. I said it would never happen and I sure don't need any of those fancy powder dies for a full case. Huh-huh.
For my lack of diligence I got to individually weight 750 cartridges to find the three that had no powder.
NOW I don't need any fancy powder checker!
As an aside, I switched to CCi BR-4's and they misbehaved in the primer system far more than the normal small rifle CCi's I usually use. I flipped about ten in 500 rounds, far more than I ever had before.
Some days one should just not bother.
I am going to try a phenolic or delrin detent ball to try to reduce spillage, as well as run the case just a smidgen tighter into the powder die. I got full travel of the bar but still some leakage when dropping the charge.
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JB Weld and/or duct tape.
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I can load a tube with the vibra-prime in about 30 seconds total. 5 minutes and I'm ready to rock.
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I have one, I don't use it very much. The new vibra prime is faster than watching the RF. I just couldn't trust it, even with a 1:1000 fault rate.
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I never hoard, but I do collect!
I have about 60 sets of redding dies, many in calibers I don't own, but *might* need some day. I have two dillon presses, two reddings, and a Hornady shotgun progressive. I would never want to adjust dies in the progressives, so I have a rack of preset tool heads. Add that to two big tubs of brass (much of it in calibers where I don't have a firearm) and xx,xxx primers, xx pounds of powder, and x,xxx projectiles "in stock".
Definitely a collector, not a hoarder. The primers, powder and bullets get rotated regularly.
Don't ask how rounds many I've loaded and not shot yet, though!
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Really nice. Wrong "blue", though!
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what did they do? just mill out the end and put a bearing in?
Pretty much.
It's held in with a press-fit pin.
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I, too, added to roller cam. Really nice.
Primer seating problems
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What does that tool look like? Are you talking about the one that goes through a powder die?
I've heard something about a smaller tool that sits on the primer punch but gave never seen one.