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On 4/22/2019 at 9:18 PM, Furrly said:
Can anyone advice on setting up karl BF.. Can't seem to find the sweet spot on bullet slot adjuster.. Having to many upside down bullets coming through.. Any advice would greatly appreciate it.
BTW... Using 40 Cal fmj bullets and BB
I had problems and problems with upside down bullets... thought I'd tried everything... Finally, at the suggestion of someone on facebook, I changed the angle of the feeder...tilted it up by about 1/2" on the high side (raised it) and it went just about perfect after that.
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On 3/11/2019 at 8:24 PM, JDIllon said:
Most of the time I have found that with all of the shaking that goes on with the 4 sets of trays, this does not happen very much any more. Most of them shake out. Keep in mind I can only speak for myself, but I don't get that many 40s in that tray, so if you see a 9 that is stuck. You just take it out or leave it and don't worry about it because I am not loading 40s. The best part for me is that I have stopped almost all 380s in the 9s. HA!WOO! I am only loading 9s, so I sort all of my brass first and then just clean the 9s. But after I clean the 9s I shake out all of the media. I throw batches of 9s that have been cleaned into the 380 tray and give it a final shake to get out any 380s that I may have missed and get out any little bits of media that may have been left. Works for ME! JD
Note: it really helped a lot when I separated the 45 and 40 and 9 by putting 2" blocks between them. When I get a chance, I will shoot some pictures of my set up.
I run the brass thru the 45-40 to the black 9mm tray, then dump what ever is in the 9mm tray into the 380 bucket which is inside a 5 gal pal
Note: the 380 bucket is a 5 gal pal cut in half and the bottom replaced with the 380 plate. That is the floor that you see thru the 380 plate!! not the bottom of the pale.
Thank you for posting this: I have had these sorters for years and love them... but never thought of permanent spacers...
I use a 5 gal bucket on top of an old vibratory tumbler, and it works great, but I can definitely see spacers making this a much faster/easier process.
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Then I routed a space in my workbench top and mounted my Inline Fabrication Baseplate... Took me 3 hours... route out a rough opening, clean up with chisel and rasp... after about 2 hours of that, the plate fit, but was about 1/4" proud of the benchtop.... SO... Went at it with the router again, then the rasp, then the chisel... in the end, it was worth it, but lord was it nerve racking!
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I installed my Inline Fabrication Inline Rail...since no holes matched my studs, I first put up a 1x4" and secured it to the wall using 2 4" screws per stud. Very nice... Turns out my wall is exactly 96 1/4" wide, so I'm going to order a second.
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- Neat!
- Semi-automatic
- And only $120/140 w/the feed chute
- As long as it will sort of keep up with a 1050/Revo/whatever, or at least not hang up, I think they will sell a TON of them. I'm going to order one as soon as they're in stock.
Is it just me, or did anybody else hear "Bras" when he said brass? My wife is pretty well endowed, don't see her boobie catchers fitting in that thing.
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search face book for "Karl Bibb reloading" stuff and join his group. He sells them (with licensing permission, so he's legal) for ~$200 each, or less than $100 w/motor and a few other bits.
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6 hours ago, tanks said:
The issue I have had with the 1050 priming system was not that I had primer ignition, but the fact that I had to take it apart, clean and put it together every few thousand rounds. It would hit the point of not seating properly or jamming otherwise.
I had that problem for almost 2 years. When I mentioned it to the gentleman I bought my first RL 1050 from, he said to hit it with a few good blasts of air, pretty much from all angles around the primer slide, every 1000 rounds or so.
Since I've been doing that, I haven't had to disassemble to clean the primer area except when swapping from large primers to small....
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I see the used Dillon pricing coming down steadily over the next few years. I think there are lot's of 1050 owners who will start unloading (lol) their machines in favor of the Evolution and Revolution.
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I absolutely love that Mark 7 has jumped in the water- no, DOVE in the water, with such a seemingly great design- appears to solve the biggest issues with the 1050, and at this pricepoint, guys who spend $4k on a blaster probably won't take much convincing to buy one.
Guys who have multiple $4k+ blasters won't take much convincing to buy the Revolution, imo.
I now have an RL1050 and a Super 1050, with 1 Mk7 Pro, and I find myself really trying to hold off on ordering an Evolution.
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15 minutes ago, Fantom919 said:
Yeah I definitely agree. Interesting that the price would go up without actually selling any or having any be used yet. (Full frame camera and a few good lenses doesn't make a $3k press seem that expensive anymore hahah)
2If the current backlog is 6 months, and their proposed/budgeted production rate is such that it takes, say, 6 months to produce them, then increasing the price until the rate of new orders is slightly less than the production rate makes sense- at least to me. (all numbers are complete guesses, btw)
The ONLY reason I haven't ordered one yet is simply that I've been remodeling my reloading room, helping my son rebuild his 1966 suburban, running my bar/restaurant remotely, and started a new oilfield business...so I haven't and won't have any time to actually reload any time in the foreseeable future, lol, so I'm simply going to wait until I have some hope of time...
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Oh, forgot: I have an RL and a super.... personally, I LOVE having a large primer 1050 and a small primer 1050... mostly use the RL for pistol, but it's no big deal to convert the tool heads on the fly
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I thought the only differences in the tool heads was that the case feeder actuator and plunger rods are longer on the super, shorter on the RL...?
Takes an extra minute or 2 to change out...
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16 hours ago, jmaples71 said:
Super cheap alternative:
Simplicity is GENIUS!! Love it.
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Helios, be sure to look at used SDBs: They don't really wear out (and they have a lifetime warranty if they do), there are normally pretty good deals on them, with caliber changes and dies, as people move from that to a larger progressive press.
If you happen to not be able to find a good used package deal, post WTB on benos and several other reloading forums... you'll get responses pretty quickly, imho.
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6 hours ago, Miranda said:
metal powder will not add to tensile strength.
1I'm only a very newb at this, but that's my take, too.
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Wow, Maximis228, that is NICE!
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On 1/7/2018 at 9:21 PM, AngelDeVille said:
This one was already in my parts box... It actually works good.
Glock finger groove base plate, and two 10-32 nuts and bolts.
I really like that- especially the out of the box thinking that got you there.
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Good to hear: thank you. I'm ordering the universal decapping and a 5.56 sizer/decapper.
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https://www.bauer-precision.com/smoke-composites-carbon-fiber-buttstock-open-shoulder-rifle-length/
For short length matches (nothing over 150 yards) I've been running a smoke composites carbon fiber on an ultralight weight ar. LOVE it-but mine is the open version- can't find a pic of the open...mine weighs ~4oz w/the castle nut and sling eyelet.
For matches with longer range targets, I have a little heavier ar w/a Cole Components... and I LOVE it...just about as much as the smoke.
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50-60% is what I'm finding dillons for lately... local and through Facebook groups. Have to be willing to drive a few 100 miles sometimes, though. I have found/bought 2 in the last 5 weeks for ~$1000 w/2 and 5 toolheads, respectively- although the 5 tool head one was almost $6k with all of the other stuff (a 650, a 550, 5 single stage presses, over 200lbs of powder, 21k of projectiles, 66 sets of dies, yada yada yada)...but that $6k was about 44% of Dillon/Amazon/retail prices.
Btw, I started using Slide Glide on all friction surfaces on the 1050s and 650 about a year ago and I think it works better than anything else I've used. I also had most of my shell plates NP3 coated by Robar almost 3 years ago.
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Dude, the TSO is an AMAZING blaster! You're gonna love it...and if you decide it's not 'the' one for you long-term, you won't lose money when you re-home it
More importantly, the 1050 will most likely be with you forever, and you can use it for almost any reloading you ever want to do. Enjoy.
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On 3/21/2018 at 2:54 PM, CrashDodson said:
I would buy one just to get a primer collater.
THIS is why I will eventually dump my 1050 w/the Mark VII Pro and go to the Evolution...hopefully I'll be able to just swap out the presses, but even if I have to buy an entire setup, the primer collator is the icing on the cake of 10 stations.
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I shot single stack and then tupperware in limited for a long time. Best thing I ever did was to buy a used SVI.
I bought my first used SVI for $1900 and it came with 6 magazines. It was 8, 9 years old?...not sure...had at least 50k rounds through it before I bought it, and it looked like it. It looked beat to hell, ugly finish...yada yada yada... but when run with handloads per the previous owners specs, it ran like a freaking top. WAY more accurate and faster than I was. About 40k rounds later, I STILL haven't replaced the barrel or any of the fire control group except for springs. I have replaced the fiber optic in the front site.. but that's it. It's still relatively ugly, and it's still way more accurate and faster than I'm capable of exploiting. The thing is, I have zero fear of beating it up, throwing it on a table, rolling through the dirt with it, whatever...I think that gun will be performing like a hoss for my kid or someone else long after I'm rotting in the ground.
About the worst case with a used steel/ss 2011 is that you might have to get a new barrel and fire control group and have it installed/fitted... with a used svi, you can send it to them and they'll get it back to you in a much shorter time than a full-on build will take, or you can take it to a local gunsmith and they can do the same- maybe...make sure you make friends with a semi-nearby smith who is trustworthy.
If you buy a used blaster from a forum member here (I've bought 8? maybe 9? don't tell my wife!) you are very likely to not have to do anything to it when you get it except learn to run it... so far, I've never had a bad brianenos classified purchase experience.
I have bought another SVI... a much newer, MUCH prettier, and much more $$$ experience.... and although I have shot it in a few matches, it's really so pretty I feel guilty throwing it around and abusing it... and to tell the truth, after all the time on my first SVI, I'm still more accurate with it, so don't run the new one in anything except steel matches.
If you have to have new, and you want it quickly, the recommendation of a Dawson CRP is solid. Also a Brazos Customs DVC limited is also a good -but more $$$ - option. Either will be a LOT faster than waiting on a new SVI.
I'm not saying don't order a new SVI. I'm simply saying there are lots of options, and as others have said, or at least hinted at, what you may be thinking you want right now might not be what you will think you'll want in a year or 2.
Karl Bibb's 3D printed bullet feeder on a Super 1050
in Dillon Precision Reloading Equipment
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it's on my casefeeder- but I don't have a 650, I have 1050s