Mavrick379

I've called several times in the last few months and they definately have at least one rep that doesn't live up to the reputation that's so widely talked about. He wasn't rude but he was basically clueless and did not offer a solution to my problem. Each time I called I had to wait about 20 minutes, not that big of a deal.

I have to blow my shell plate every 25 rounds or so, if I don't powder gets on the primer stem and dents the primers.

The people that don't have this problem got lucky and got a powder bar that fits tighter. I agree just tighten up the tolerances and problem solved, with today's manufacuturing processes this should be no big deal. I guess all we can do is keep complaing about it online until they listen.

I've experienced the same problems as listed above. First let me say I love my Dillon 550B but the powder measure does not come close to living up to Dillons use of the word precision. The powder bars have way to much slope in them and in my opinion this is just not acceptable at all. On one of them I glued in a .005 thick shim to improve the above problem. I did call Dillon and they did send my out a new bar and it was thicker but still let H110 get bound up in the slide not to mention leaking all over the press. I REALLY REALLY wish Dilion would improve this so we don't have to play the "find the right bar game" by trial and error. Anyways, if you get a shim set, mine was plastic, cut a piece to fit the powder bar and jb weld it on. If you use the right size shim you can close up the gap and it will work much better. I also tried using an RCBS powder measure with the Hornady linkage set and that works really well too but is a little more work to set up the linkage. Again, Dillon, I hope your listening and will rise to the challange to actually fix this problem because it is real. There are many fine powders and many people using them, now make a measure that works with them.

Agreed but if it really bothers you just put some hot glue on the tip of your seat stem and before it hardens press a bullet into it to shape it to the nose of your bullet and readjust your oal. The hot glue comes out so its not permanant.

No go on the steel wool, it did shine it up but the ridges are still there. Any other suggestions?

I'm a brass junkie too, a good day at the range is a bag full of brass LOL

I'm going to give that a try too, thanks for the suggestion.

Already took care of that part, dillon actually sent me some new thicker bars and it helped alot. A few flakes of powder trickler out of the powerder funnel after I lower the ram, I can see it happen, this happens because the vibration from operating the press causes a few flakes that were hung up in there to fall. If you look at the inside of your powder funnel and the steel tube above the powder funnel they are both very rough on the inside, this is where the powder is hanging up then falling from vibration. My question is how do I smooth up the inside of these two parts, polishing at this point won't work because its way to rough and its very difficult to get in there. Take yours apart and look at it, I bet its the same, I don't know why they manufacture them like this?

I would if I knew how. I did polish all the aluminum to a nice bright shine but since that tube is steel and its on the inside how do I smoothen it out?

I'm having a small problem with powder (H110) trickling out of the powder mearsure on my550B. I have narrowed it down to the powder is sticking in the steel tube that is pressed into the aluminum powder measure body. The steel tube has small ridges on the inside and is not smooth by any means causing flakes of the fine H110 powder to hang up in there then fall out onto the shellplate from vibration. Its not a huge deal but the flakes get into my primer cup causing a dent in the primer unless I blow it off every 20 or so rounds. Is this something that is just accepted and is "normal" ? Why is the inside of the steel tube not smooth? There must be a reason.

Stainless Steel tumbling will not remove the nickle plating. I've run a bunch of it and it and it doesn't touch it, that's tumbling for 4 hours.

Maybe a little off topic but I have a 550b and the only thing I wish it had (not a huge deal) is a 5th or even 6th station, one for a powder check and one for a separate expander, (so far not a huge fan of powder funnel/expander dies) . I don't want a case or bullet feed and like the manual index.

Not new to guns but new here, been reading the forums here for a while and thought I would sign up. I shoot pretty much anything I can but mostly handguns, I also reload and really enjoy that as a hobby.