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Roll around on a tray with a tiny bit of mineral spirits, then dry with a towel.
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Jeff Bartlett at gibrass.com sells the best once-fired military brass I've been able to find.
Right now (11/3/2015) he has 5.56 and 7.62 available. From experience it is definitely worth the extra money ($25 per thousand) to have him process: primer punched, pocket swaged and brass tumbled and polished. Shows up like new. The last batch of 5000 7.62 cases I bought didnt even need to be trimmed.
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The case fed cam was redesigned just over a year ago. A potential wire replacement for the white plastic wedge at the primer station is currently being beta-tested. It won't be ready for a few months at least. We are also making a change to the primer slide; the rubber sleeve and roll pin are being phased out in favor of a brass roller secured by a screw. So far only the small primer slides are being shipped that way. The opening of the clear plastic funnel on the face of the case feed bowl was changed from a rectangular opening to a round one. Your machine could have either. We don't keep close track over when changes occur, other than on blueprints. We are always working on improvements, most are very minor.
I really do believe the cam is a design flaw - one which causes an unacceptable amount of errors on case feeding. I've purchased 3 toolheads at almost $300/ea with the flawed cam. Will you send the new cams with the fixed design as a free replacement?
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I roll my loaded rounds on a tray with a little bit of mineral spirits, then use a towel to dry.
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Downtown San Diego condo, spare bedroom is my office / guest room and I converted the walk in closet to be my workshop / reload room.
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Wow that's awesome, just ordered the small/large set myself. Adjusting the backup expander/swaging rod properly has been the least precise part of the 1050 for me.
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For anyone following this thread, I finally reached a resolution with Dillon. It turns out that the "modified" .30-06 die set for the 1050 consists of the normal .30-06 size die and the .308 seat and crimp dies. It does not contain .30-06 dies that have been modified!
So if you already have the dies for .308, the only additional die you need is the sizing die.
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They are available, but you need to phone in for them. The size die is unaltered.
I called in and the rep refused to sell just the modified dies. I don't want to pay for the full conversion set since I already have the other parts. Your post here makes it sound like I can buy just the dies..what to do?
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I've been using H110 for .44mag in my 1050.I've noticed the same thing but it hasn't been a show stopper. Every 300 rounds or so I blow out the shellplate and any accumulated powder with my air compressor.
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I've started looking for powder on gunbot lately. What is up with all this 50 BMG powder? I guess folks reloading for it would go through a lot of powder but seems like it would be a very small group.
http://www.gunbot.net/reloading/Powder/
Best site to use. In the past month I've bought 4x 8lb jugs of IMR4064 and 2x 8lb jugs of WC820 (milsurp H110)
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Having broken 5 primer punches on my Dillon carbide 223 die set, I'm thinking I could remove at least 1/2 the length and make it much stiffer, hence stronger. Is there absolutely any reason for it to be as long as they are? If so, I certainly can't see why. Gonna try it anyway
I used a hacksaw and cut the bottom of one of my punches off just below the sizing ball. Easy to saw through. I had a couple hundred rounds of .223 I'd loaded that were sized wrong and wouldn't chamber properly so after pulling the bullets and dumping the powder I used the modified primer punch in the sizing die to resize the primed cases.
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Sounds like the seat and crimp dies for the 1050 are shorter. Probably took some off the bottom of the dies. My guess is the modified "1050" dies would work on other presses also. Not sure why the two different versions.
I can't speak for Dillon, but I imagine they would exchange them for you.
Unfortunately they would not. Customer support on the phone stated that the modified die set is only sold as part of the $200 caliber conversion kit, no matter that I don't need anything out of the kit other than the dies. Since I have not used the dies I ordered yet, they set up an RMA and will ship me a modified size die only in exchange, refunding me the difference. I was instructed to see if my .308 seating and crimping dies are short enough to allow the case to pass, and if not I need to remove as much as 1/4" or more from each die body. Frankly, I don't have the tools or know-how to do something like that. Kind of annoyed with the whole process.
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Shoot, glad I read this post. Got a Remington 700 in .30-06 for Christmas and ordered what I thought were all the necessary parts to start loading .30-06 on my 1050 the next day. I'm still loading a big batch of .44mag so I haven't setup the machine for -06 yet. Since I already load .308 I didn't buy or even look at the caliber conversion kit and just ordered the normal die set. D'oh!!
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If money is no option, the 650 is a great machine, but I think the 550 is a better machine to learn to reload on.
Actually, if money is not a concern the 1050 is the press to get. It was my first press and couldn't be happier.
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I don't get the change over is a pain complaint. By the time I changeover Ive loaded so much ammo (5 calibers on my S1050) the machine needs to be torn down, cleaned, greased and maintained anyway.
Its like when the car manufacturers shut down to tool up for the new model year.
Agreed, no big deal as far as I'm concerned. Kinda fun actually!
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I think I keep it simpler than most people on here. I wait until I have a 2k+ cases to trim and then I setup a toolhead on my 1050 with just the trimmer die installed in the station where you normally seat the bullet. Having it in that station is best for my setup since I have room to the left side for the vacuum hose. After everything is trimmed I switch back to my normal loading toolhead and start cranking.
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I'm not at all mechanically inclined, yet I figured out how to change toolheads and primer systems pretty easily. It's kinda fun too plus it gives you a chance to clean and lube the machine.
I have 3 toolheads that I share between .45, .223, .308 and .44 as well as the 1200B trimmer when it's time to do a lot of case trimming. No biggie and at $250+ for a 1050 toolhead it's worth it to me over having dedicated for each. Don't be put off by it, or imagine that changing them out is harder than it is!
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I make my own lube. 10% pure lanolin 90% pure isopropyl alcohol. Dump about 200 to 300 in a shallow cardboard box with the seams taped. Push them all down flat on their sides so spray does not get in the mouth of the casings spray very very lightly then shake and pan. I have been using the same box for about 2 years so it has a nice patina to it. stopped buying lube a long time ago. I buy a gallon of alcohol and 2 pounds of lanolin on amazon. the lanolin is sold as a hair gel in the beauty section for about $8 a pound. the alcohol in the industrial section for about $50 a gallon.
Good call, I'm going to start doing this! What do you put it in to spray?
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I would start at 23.0 for that pistol. My load for a 250 gr. hard cast SWC in my 9 1/2" Ruger SRH (purchased in 1989) is 24.2 grains and is the most accurate revolver load I have ever developed.
Thats what I'll do then! I need to finish 100 rounds of .223 after I pull them (sized wrong) then I'm switching toolheads to .44 magnum and I'll try this load out.
I do have quite a bit of Hodgdon Clays on hand and they do have published loads for that between 4-6gr, have you ever tried Clays?
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Realized I never said what I'm loading for - just got a Ruger Super Redhawk 9.5".
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I had thought I'd start at 21gr and work up but sounds like 23 is a better place to begin.
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Good to know, thank you.
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I have shot a lot of 240 grain lead bullets with H110. Never had any problems.
Do you recall the load you've used?
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Curious if anyone has experience with the components I gathered:
Hodgdon H110
240gr LSWC from Missouri Bullet Company [Link]
CCI #300 Large Pistol Primer
Hodgdon only publishes a load for 240gr jacketed bullets and I just got this response from their support account:
H110 is a magnum pistol powder and as such does not work well with lead bullets unless they are in the 325 grain plus category and above.
Dave Campbell
Customer Service
Hodgdon Powder Co.
This sounds more like a corporate CYA response than anything. What do you guys think?
1050 and .223 Setup
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It's a hijack, and as Rigger said could be answered by searching then a new post if needed.