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In both 38 super and 9mm I lost 3pf with 3 holes.

5 minutes with a milling machine (dremel for me) on your frame just above the grip screws will fix that. It just needs a small bevel to remove the sharp corner to give enough clearance. Both STI and SVI mags will work then.

Ive never cleaned primer tubes or magazines but the slide and underneath it needs to be clean so it travels smoothly. Also watch out for build up on the priming punch. As soon as my primers start playing up I tear it down and clean it. Recently i had some trouble doing a run of 300 rounds, maybe 10 or so bad primers so I stopped and gave it a good clean. Then the next day I loaded 9200 rounds with zero primer issues. The press was spotless at the end. The brass was already processed beforehand. Before the 300 round run where I had trouble I had deprimed and sized about 25,000 40 cal cases. The primers leave a crusty residue all over the swage and priming area once they are deprimed. I had a small dome of crud on top of the primer punch causing my issues.

Thanks

Do all the non dillon trim dies size the case as well?

Thanks George, I will check that out tonight. I haven't played with that part yet but it might need adjustment. Ive found I've needed quite a few little adjustments to get the press running right.

Thanks guys. Its the same case feed mechanism on the 750. I will make sure its clean but pretty sure it is already clean. It is brand new, I had only loaded 220 rounds of clean 223 prior to switching to 9mm. I found a thread about similar problems on a 650 with a ton of fixes. One of them was to adjust the case feed block so it doesnt push the case too hard. That might be it, I had it apart to turn it around for 223 and didn't take note of how well it it pushed the case in when I tightened it up. It seems way more complicated than my mk 7 1050. The plan was to downsize but now I'm not sure I could handle it.

I've had some trouble with my lee sizing die on my new 750. The case seems to move back a touch after it is pushed into the shellplate and this makes it hit the edge of the die rather than go straight in. I tried to align everything locking down the dies with the cases in the toolhead with no change. The dillon die works fine but I'm wondering if there is a fix I am not seeing. I'd like to use the lee die and leave the dillon setup on my 1050.

You can do it. The zigracker instructions refer to the trubor cut and offers measurements.

Mine floats too but I just leave it.

That looks great!

Its so loud!

Do you have a photo of the cuts? 10.5 seems so light.

They fit but the profile is different at the top where it meets the slide at the front.

Shadow 2 slide. Not as light as everyone thinks.

STI tactical 5 inch. STI TAS sights. Same as the lawman above but flat topped and unique slide profile.

Infinity with island barrel cut.

That is not an island barrel slide right? I have been trying to find data too. Here are a couple of my slides. All slides have the extractor and firing pins, firing pin spring and fps fitted. Trojan slide. Bomar sights with corresponding cut. Flat topped. Bit of grip tape. STI lawman slide which isnt flat topped compared to the trojan slide. TAS Sights and the same front sight as above.

The lee locknut doesn't clear the alignment pin on my 1050 if I put it underneath. Are 1100's the same? The dillon locknut clears the alignment pin but hits the shellplate lock nut when the toolhead is down. I just looked and Ive got a dillon locknut on the top of the toolhead with my lee decapper.

When you had issues were you still running the backup die over the swage? Was it adjusted correctly? In the early days of 1050 ownership I tried running the press without the backup dies and would have priming problems. I was loading 38 super so figured it wasn't needed. I replaced all the parts with no change then finally put the backup die in and all was good again. Since then apart from the occasional crushed primer or problem when the machine is dirty I haven't really had any problems. The shellplate is tightened as much as it will go then loosened 1/8th of a turn. Last friday night I had a few priming issues in 300 rounds so cleaned the machine and the following day I loaded 9200 rounds with zero primer issues. The shellplate and under the shellplate was spotless at the end. I find that the primer punch will get a build up of crap on it (especially if you just run the machine to size and deprime first) so it is no longer flat, when this happens primers tilt and problems happen.

With the lee die just try flipping the Lee nut over. It doesn't need to go under the toolhead. There is gap where the O ring goes so if you flip it you will have more of the thread lower down.

A seperate step. I think people only do that if they are automated. If you are using dillon dies change the decapping pin. There has been some posts about putting an edge on the pin to help stop it too. I've had pull back issues and just changed it out and that sorted it.

They are not a press fit or anything and come out easy so they can be replaced at home as long as you get the right size.

Newer compared the OG X5. I remember when there was a regular X5 and it was updated to the x5 R2. I'll see if I can find the thread about it.

Its the newer optic cut.