datguy

I use the Dillon swager when loading, also. Works well with the MBF.

I file and then smooth the shape of the decapping pin to eliminate this problem. The Dillon pin never lasts me through 1000 rounds. I process brass on one tool head and load the processed brass on another tool head.

I like the Lee decapping die on my 1050. Welcome to the club. I love mine!

I didn't have good luck with the bearing kit. Have the other two upgrades mentioned and recommend them both.

You going to offer these for sale?

S1050

Has anyone come up with a good design to mount the micro switch for finished round counting?

Get the 1050. I did about 5 months ago. I love it! I did the Mr. BulletFeeder at the same time. I recommend it!

Please elaborate..

As title says.. Powder funnel (.45 acp) is sticking in cases. I polished the snot out of it and it still requires a jerk to get out of the case when cycling my S1050 on the upstroke. Any ideas?

I had 3 upside down primers out of the first 1100 loaded.

As title says, need to replace the chewed up index pawl. Not sure which side to drive its pivot pin out..

RF100 arrived yesterday. Seems to work great thus far. Very happy with it.

Ordered one.

I use 4.5gr titegroup with xtreme 230gr rn.

I don't use an M die. Process brass with one tool head, load on another. No issues with bullets staying in place. I use a 21st century shooting expanding mandrel after sizing.

Brassaholic, any progress on the press?

I got my brass prep head sorted out. Ran about 5000 cases today with only one stuck case - the last one. Loading now. I will say I can see why some guys like to run one headstamp. I've smeared a handful of primers and I set two of them off. Raised the swaging rod a bit and haven't popped any more. I do still smear one every 100-150 cases. I'm definitely getting a much more detailed "feel" for the machine when pulling the handle. I can feel the smeared primers and pull them from the shell plate so I don't have to disassemble later. Thanks for the tips.

It took a while, but I figured out what's going on- I bought a shell plate bearing from Ballistic Tools. I installed it when I switched to the .223 toolhead. It raises the lock ring enough that the button head cap screws hit the bottom of the tool head - causing the cam over I was experiencing. Good to go now.

I'm going to pull all of the dies and figure out where the caming over is being introduced. It worked as sagewa described when I was running .45.

I'll check that. I appreciate any and all assistance.

It is definitely caming over, even with no swage backup or rod installed. No dies are touching shell plate. Starting to hate this thing. My .45 ACP head works great. I've done something wrong on both (brass processing and loading) .223 heads..

Yes, I'm using the correct end. It has a square cut groove. The no-go has a rounded groove and is larger. Is the S1050 supposed to cam over?

The replacement swage rod arrived today. I just spent an hour trying to adjust it using the instructions from Dillon: First adjust backer rod down to case bottom, finger tight, with swage rod removed. Then adjust swage rod up until I get a good swage. Using the Ballistic Tools go/no-go gauge, I'm not getting a good swage, ever. I adjusted it high enough that it was starting to flex the shell plate, and I know that's too high. I've wasted a ton of time on this and it still doesn't work.

Looks like I had the Swage setup wrong- right when it was passing with the Ballistic Tools gauge. Shut down until I get a new swage rod.