Outlaw714

Received new swage rod from Dillon today. it was 5 thousandths bigger. I am back up and running. Thanks Dillon. And yes you can wear the super swage 600 out!

I have had the Dillon super swage for 5 years and have swaged a lot of brass. Mostly LC 556. Today I was going to use it to process some LC 556 and I cant get it to swage. I have no more adjustment. I have a swage( go, no go guage) and have used it in conjunction with the super swage. Checking every so often. Cases are deprimed and cleaned with stainless steel media, like always. I called Dillon and they are sending me a new small swaging rod. Dillon acted surprised when I suggested that the rod had worn out. Anyone else run into this? I took the super swage apart, cleaned and re lubed it. Just wondering if anyone else had a similar issue?

Loosen the die cycle the press and run a case up inside, then tighten. This usually fixes it If I am reading the OP correctly he has already done that.

Single stage for all decapping. To each his own I guess. Single stage comes in handy for many other uses as well. I use a unversal decapping die in station one to clean anything in the flash hole. Sizing die in the single stage to decap and size. Tumble lube off, trim, swage if needed and into the case feeder.

I am having success withe 9mm feed ramp and the green plastic 9mm adapter. Made a slight cut to accept the taller case with a dremmel. Haven't look back since. Thousands of rounds.........

Okay, thanks for the insight.

I have been sorting my brass by headstamp to get a more consistent swage. My question, is it better to trim before swaging for even better consistency, or after swaging? If all the brass is the same length will I get a better swage. I see most people trim after swaging. If swager is adjusted right, does it even matter?

Great info. Learned somethings today. Thanks

Okay thanks

Prebancolt, how do you retention that spring?

Spoke to Dillon rep today. He is sending me out some parts. His suggestion was to turn the seating punch 90 degress compress the primer cup and spring in a vice and re- tighten the set screw. Well it worked. The set screw would no longer hold the tention in the original spot. It measures 1.215 now, back in spec. Feeding primers like it was new.

Inline Fabrication makes one. Very nice and reasonably priced.

Did you change back to 9mm locator buttons? Never mind you said sizing station. My bad.

My primer cup is too high. It started at 1.235. As Ace38super stated above it should be 1.215. I also had a friend measure his and it was 1.214. Again I it in the vice and collapsed it down as far as I could before damaging it. I managed to get it to 1.220. It is loading primers better, but will not pickup the last primer. Catches on the cup everytime. Thanks for the help from everyone. I am still bothered that it won't load the last primer, but will have to deal with it until I can get a new primer bar.

I measured my top of primer cup to bottom of bar and got 1.235. Put in vise, loosened set screw compressed cup on spring as far as I could go and tightened set screw. No change. Rpeated process several times. Still 1.235.