About eight months ago I bought a square deal B in 9mm from my local gun shop. When I got it home, it was apparent that they'd ordered in a .40 S&W kit, ripped that calibre out then installed a 9mm set into it. They ordered and supplied me another primer housing & shield (#20900) because the black tube had some surface rust "from shipping".
I didn't think it was much of a deal until I got it home and tried to use it, but couldn't get the primers to feed more than 1/20th of the time without ... random luck it seemed. Everything else worked fine, but without primers I wasn't going to get far.
I thought it was me being new to the process, not understanding how to set it up, so I spent ages reading up on it on your forums and wherever else I could find, checking it to ensure the primer cup wasn't fouling on the shell plate (never did), but I never got it right in a few weeks of trying when I had time.
I got sick, couldn't look at it for a few months, so tonight I sit down and give it another go. I get ONE round to go together after checking the powder throw and that primers weren't falling out and then the handle sticks for a second while resizing the next case... and then I can't get any primers to feed.
I pulled it apart, undoing the three black bolts on the front and removing the primer feed from the machine, and I find this.
http://imgur.com/aTXBUtR
The roller bolt (#13809) had snapped, and the roller was just sitting on the main part of the housing.
So, I pulled things apart - I had a spare primer feed slider so I moved the primer cup over to that, checked the height and everything looked ok. I made sure the clearances looked ok, and no burrs on anything like I'd read on the net, and went to load ONE round. The shell plate/carrier assembly stuck up, and I pulled slowly and gently down thinking it was the shell too far onto the resizing die... and crunch.
ANOTHER roller bolt snapped.
I'm in Australia and can't call international and it's a public holiday tomorrow so my LGS is shut. Any ideas?
