Raydee38
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Thanks for the pics, does it add any additional height to the system compared to the 650 casefeeder? I am pretty limited on ceiling height.
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Thanks for the info guys, looks like I will have to go a different route.
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I have both the XL650 and the RL550B and I am hoping to swap the collator part of the casefeeder assembly between both machines to save a little money. Can you guys tell me if the collator is the same between both? I am hoping to just buy the 550B casefeed assembly and then just use the collator for both machines.
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Does that Gs swager work good for you?
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I'll take one for 223
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Ok so if I want to order each part separately will I have to order directly from Dillon?
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Not only do i load .223 on my 550, I do it with the casefeeder attachment. All brass gets a 1 hour tumble to remove dirt. I size/deprime on my Rock Chucker then tumble for an hour to remove the sizing lube. Cases are trimmed & chamfered & primer pockets reamed on a Frankford Arsenal machine. The Lee reamer will screw onto the Frankford in place of the the pocket cleaner. The casefeed hopper has the small rifle plate. The bottom of the tube has a green (9mm) casefeed adapter that has been dremeled to allow the .223 case to pass through. You can also buy a .223 adapter (white) I use a .38supercomp locator plate for station #1. There is no die in station #1. Powder drop in station #2, a seating die in station #3 and a Lee factory crimp die in station #4.
Can you buy each of those parts separately?I tried to price everything i need to convert my 550 to casefeed 223 and it works out to about $335. I am not real sure that is worth the effort or not.
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I had some issues with the Dillon 223 dies bumping the shoulder on my brass enough to reliably cycle in all my firearms. When I switched to the Rt1200 for sizing and trimming the sizing part of the die must definitely be small base because it will bump the shoulder back way to much of you don't have it adjusted correctly.
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I don't crimp .223 at all, just seat the bullets. If you do it that way, be sure you have plenty of neck tension, even if you have to modify the expander portion of the decapping pin.
It seems like I have always had to crimp using the dillon resizing die. I was going to try to modify it so it didn't open the case mouth as much but I will try the RCBS die and see how it works.
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I have a nice inline Fabrication led light but I still can't see the powder in the brass. I haven't had a squib in a very long time so I guess I shouldn't worry now.
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My wife bought me a small base 223 rifle die set for my 550b today. The seater die also crimps so now I have a station that is open. I was thinking now that I have a station open I could put a powder cop die in station 3 and seat and crimp in the last station. I know that would mean loading the brass and seating the bullet both on the right side of the press and it may slow me down some but I don't mind since I don't try to break any loading records anyway. What do you guys think?
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I had the same issue until I started sizing and trimming with the RT1200. Now the neck tension is tight enough that I don't need to crimp.
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I did not care for TAC using 55gr bullets but H335 has been great.
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I don't think the M die is needed. What I do is put the Dillon sizing/decapping die with expander in station 1 and the trimmer in station 3. I back the die out in station 1 so that it just decapps, expands and barely sizes the case. The rest of the sizing is done by the trimmer die. I have never needed to use the M die doing it this way.
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I thought I read that the Dillon die set are small base dies?
Here is a quote I got right from Dillon on their forum:
All Dillon rifle dies are small-based, with a carbide expander ball. We do sell the steel 223 size die separately, #12778. This die is not available online, order by phone. It does have a lube bleed-hole in the shoulder.
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The pic I posted was with the trim/resize die screwed down to far for sure. That was the first case that I tried to size with the new die. I have backed it out to 1.457".
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I think I figured out the problem, but I am not sure as to why it happened. When I measure my fire formed brass I am getting a average of 1.4610" but my resized reloads are longer than that for some reason. They look good in my Dillon gauge and chamber easily in my bolt gun but the autoloader is a different story.
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Guys I just got my trimmer in the mail and I am getting it all setup. I am having a issue with some resized brass having a hard time ejecting when not fired. I have been using dillon sizing dies and check each round in a dillon headspace gauge. Each round drops in like it should and comes right out of the gauge bit they are tight in my chamber.
Now that I have the trimmer setup it looks like it will actually bump the shoulder a little more than my dillon FL die will. When I bump the shoulder a little more using the trimmer die it looks like it is bumped back to far according to my dillon gauge. Should I worry about bumping the shoulder back to far? Here is a pic of one of my cases sized using the trimmer die with the die screwed down just a little past hitting the shell plate on my 550.
Here is a pic of that case in the Dillon gauge, it is a little under the low lip of the gauge.
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JJ when you neck size only are you using just a neck sizing die? I have about 500 fire formed cases that I was thinking about just neck sizing for my bolt gun but I wasn't sure if it should have the shoulder bumped a thousandth or so just to be safe.
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I have a few of the foscams. Only problem I had so far is one of the older ones died after a firmware update.
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In todays day and age of online payments I hate dealing with people that will only take a money order. Even worse is waiting 5 days for them to receive the money and then sit on it for another 5 days before they ship the item
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just get a lee and be done. they are 12 bucks last time I bought one, might be 15 now.
And if you use your trim die as your only source of sizing you need to expand the neck afterwords with something like a mandrel die. I suggest the 21st Century Shooting expanding dies for no other reason in that they are fairly inexpensive(you buy one body and you can buy multiple expander mandrels for various calibers) and they work great.
The problem I think I will run into with that setup is I don't have enough room on my 550B to run a third die to expand the neck after the cases are trimmed. If I back my sizing die out enough and screw the decapping pin down all the way I am hoping I can decap and expand the neck without much sizing, that way the trimmer can size and trim. I don't want the brass spinning in the trimmer because I already sized it before it got to the trimmer.
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What I do now is use a Lyman case prep station and debur and chamfer the cases after they are sized. Can I still do that?
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I finally broke down after years of hand trimming 223 and bought the Dillon rapid trimmer. Now I have a question about the setup.
I see that the 1200 is also a resize die so my plan is just to setup a separate tool head with a decapper and then the trimmer. Can I use my current sizing/decapping die and just back the die out of the head so that it only decaps and does not resize? I was told not to resize first as the brass may spin in the trimmer. What do you guys think?
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Has anyone tried one of these yet? I know the "other" brand got horrible reviews but this one looks like a better design. I did rear one review on the AR15 forums but it looks like the guy that did the review was possible the owner of the company. If that is true I will stay away form this one....I hate dishonest people!