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40 cm is roughly 15 inches. Like you say "what seemed cool to a bunch of 20-something shooters was a lot less cool when they were in their 40s... " I can just imagine the look on a super senior's face if the RO said "Jump over this object and make sure you turn at least 90 degrees to the left or right while doing so. Your choice which direction you turn!" At 72 I could probably get away with it once per season. With some down time of unknown length to follow.

Can you expand on "I ran a couple deeper, but was having issues with the brass getting caught up in the shell plate?" I guess it is not obvious to me how seating primers deeper would have an effect on "brass getting caught up in the shell plate". Just here to learn... thanks.

120w ? One hundred and twenty watts? There seems to be a lot of variability in the wattage ratings for those motors. Starting around 8. Interesting.

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I was nervous the first time also. However it is actually fairly straightforward. As was mentioned the key is once you've got it roughed out to use progressively finer finishing materials. If you go from coarse to fine in too big a jump it will take forever to work out the grooves left from the coarser material. If you are patient it will look factory when you are finished.

I've got an Ammobot on an 1100. No sensors other than my version 1.0 eyes and ears. So I've got to be right there observing with the stop switch in my hand. If something bad happens and it's immediately noticeable I may be able to stop the press before it gets worse. For example if a bullet topples over I may see that in time and hit the stop. Re-orient the bullet and continue. Or I may not and the press will happily attempt to press the sideways bullet into the case until the clutch kicks in. For all the catastrophic events eventually the clutch will activate and the machine will stop. The only variable is how much of a mess do I have to clean up afterwards. The press and the Ammobot are amazingly tolerant of these scenarios. The weak links are the shoulder bolts for the indexing lever and roller. Edited to add: Once I had the press dialed in and gained experience with it's mannerisms and maintenance schedule the frequency of issues is now perhaps once per several thousand. Well worth the effort for my needs. The Ammobot does exactly what it's supposed to do in a fairly mindless manner. The vast majority of issues are getting the press and associated entities, case feeder, bullet feeder, etc. to operate without error.

I think you are setting the bar way too low by at least one order of magnitude.

So you have a four pass process? 1. Rollsizer 2. CP2000 processing 3. RL1100 seat primer 4. RL1100 powder, bullets

Have you tried swapping just the strikers?

For whatever reason there seems to be a bit of variation in P320 triggers. Both with respect to pull weight and other parameters like creep, break, reset, etc.

makes sense, thanks!

I'm curious also. Thanks.

So you are saying that if you take several of the rounds which got "stuck" when they were inserted, and then do the "plunk and rotate" test on them, they all pass successfully?

What sort of fine tuning are you having to do?

My recollection from following the EVO story from back at the beginning of that product was that there were often complaints about the powder measure at that point in time. How old is your machine? Is it possible you have one of the earlier powder measures?

Interesting. I was getting an occasional upside down case with the Dillon plate. I don't think I've had one since I installed the DAA. I've noticed that very small changes in various parameters can be the difference between failure and success with both bullet and case feeders. Too bad we can't adjust the tilt on the case feeders. I'd be curious how that would affect operation.

With respect to the Redding expander die: Any idea what the threading for the small lock ring is? Mine keeps coming loose unless I really crank on it and I thought a second ring might lock it down better.

I've done it both ways. And then ended up removing everything ratchet related. The less crap to collect crap the better. I did put a washer behind the primer slide bolt to approximate the original orientation and geometry.

That is one thing a 550 has in it's favor. I have used a Lee Classic Turret for the same purpose. In my mind where the 650/750 separates itself from a 550 is that you can have both case feeder and bullet feeder stations as well as separate seat and crimp stations. Plus after several years of having only the Classic Turret I'm spoiled by the automatic indexing. I would not give that up.

I think every time I've wanted something that was a little more than I really wanted to spend and then settled for something cheaper I've regretted it.

I'm trying to decide if you're serious or just trolling us! lol... Haven't decided yet...

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Did that include dies?

Most common presses, including the 550, use the same threading 7/8" x 14. All the usual suspects have decapping dies which use that threading, Dillon, Redding, Lyman, RCBS, Lee, etc. Question: Did the die itself actually break or did only the pin break? There are aftermarket pins available for many of those dies.