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What osageid said on the disassemble, wear eye protection and be careful, make certain that you have the correct internal tube installed in the feed, if you used a large tube with small primers they could twist and clog, with the proper tube a clog has never happened to me, once we did start with no tube installed at all, that clogged right off the bat but was easy to clear once removed from the press

double your powder dies, you will want two for each seperate tool head, one for powder measure and one for powder check.....

A 41 magnum conversion would get you started, get a 30 cal powder funnel and cut the casefeed adapter with a dremel and you would be in business. 30 RAR is differant than a 30 blackout. I am sure dillon will offer one soon.

I would go ahead and order one to get in line, Dillons back order time for dies and caliber changes has been much faster than they advertised. They seem to be cranking stuff out pretty quickly now, hopefully the same applies to presses. While you are waiting work on all the other tons of doodads you will need to go with the press, scales, tumblers etcetc etc....

I am running the UV-18 from thumblers also, bought it in 1980, just replaced the motor this year for 50 bucks from the company, the grease dried up in the bearings while it sat in storage, 30 years is not too bad Good as new now.

I would definitley call Dillon and ask for the alignment set, they shipped it right out to me, saturday mornings at opening time is easy to get in, last time I called the lady told me it may be 15 minute wait! I laughed and said 15 minutes would be great! The alignment pin fits in the powder drop die and fits into the primer seater hole (with the primer seater removed) if the platform is lined up. Mine moves slightly in the bottom position and is very solid in the up position, the main difference between our presses is my platform is steel, yours is cast aluminum and may be slightly differant, I havent seen one up close, on my steel platform the only way I could see it being off is if it shifted on those screws or if it bent. Hope you find it and let us know what the final outcome was.

There are two large allen head screws in the center of the platform, they may have come loose, there is an alignment pin dillon sends you to center it properly, it can probably done without it but tricky, I would grasp the platform and twist it back clockwise slightly to see if it shifts, there are several posts on here of those screws coming loose. All of the linkage is tight right? Thinking back to mine, I am thinking some lock tite would be a good idea on those since that alignment is so critical.

Here is the best one so far, it looks like your platform shifted counter clockwise.

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Buzi, mine is from 93 also! I looked at the attachment of the case feed body assembly and it is pretty solid, I had my platform off last week to clean some rust off the bottom and the alignmemt is critical, dillon sent me an alignment tool to put it back on, if the two scews holding the platform came loose it may have shifted, that seems more likely to me.

Email the pic to me and I will make it smaller and post it, my email is my user name at san.rr.com

Pictures gotta be under 500K, got to make it smaller. Should be an option on your camera for "email"

Athe bottom right corner select "more reply options" and you can attach a photo....

Here is my bushing nestled perfectly centered into the U of the case insert slide, if this is what is hitting your platform must have shifted, how many rounds through this press? The bushing it tight right?

What is hitting the bushing with the slide cam off? Can you post a picture?

I snapped a quick picture of mine while they were at the same height on the way up to show the distance between the bushing and the ramp, mine is an early 90s 650 so there might be some differances.

Is the camming pin adjusted properly? It should be sliding the case insert slide back away from the bushing so it clears, mine clears it by a half inch or so, that is if I am understanding your problem correctly, try moving the pin down some?