jmorris

As above the SD, 550 and 1050 are all reciprocating primer systems, go back and forth. The 650 is the only rotary one, I do wish the 1050 was rotary too though.

You can buy the same thing from Lee for $25 if you can adapt it yourself. In either case your throwing money away that you should be saving towards a collator. Having to pick up, then manipulate head down every case then drop it into a tube doesn't change if you are using the one that comes with the Dillon or that thing. Heck just getting a real long tube would cost less and be faster than that one as you wouldn't have to stop and index the turret.

It's a GSI, for trimming 300 blk.

Red dot and clays.

With the 1200 on a 650 the vacuum manifold is large enough that you cannot have dies in an adjacent station. If you are able to get everything to fit I don't see why that would not work. With the dillon set up I used it in #3 so I could have dies in 1&5.

If the handle goes all the way down and the shell plate all the way up and the decapping pin does not break it will be below the bottom of the case. I am not sure what you are talking about with "stuck" primers, seems like you would not have made a complete stroke if that were the case. If your using Lee dies I suppose the decapping pin could be forced up but then no case after that would be deprimed. Primers being sucked back into the hole because they became logged on the tip of the decapping pin happens sometimes, a slight modification to the tip will sure this problem. If a primer is "stuck" that generally causes a "ringer" where the bottom of the primer and anvil are pushed out but the side stays stuck in the pocket and turns the case into scrap unless you have too much time on your hands.

The reciprocating primer systems like the SD, 550 and 1050 all use a plastic tip on the primer tube so if something goes wrong the tip gives way vs more force being imparted into the primer (why Dillon won't suggest it). The 650 is a rotary feed system (likely the most reliable primer feed there is) and uses the brass tip.

I never used an RCBS lube die but I don't recall ever cleaning the inside of any of my collators, except one of my bullet collators when using wax lubed bullets. The reason I have never used an RCBS lube die is because they only decap and lube. So that would mean you have to run all of the cases through the press twice. Once to decap and lube then again to resize, prime, powder bullet and crimp. Spray and shake is many, many times faster than that and your case feeder would have lubed cases in it anyway.

Edison when asked about all of his failures trying to invent the light bulb said "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Lots of my stuff has not worked in the past but I generally don't post those

Just to prove it could be done, I only used it up to the point it worked. I have been accused of having too much time on my hands before.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUdzxJenkX0 There is a thread on it here somewhere that shows the entire contraption but it would be more practical make it a purely mechanical device. I used some Lee parts when I built a case feed for a Pro 2000. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hObNbSATBOE

9X45 there were at least 3 generations of linkage on the powder measures. The latest is the "clunky" one and it is that way to help prevent double charges and squibs. The first one is like the one you cut up but the second gen had the fail safe rod to make sure the measure returned even if the springs didn't pull it back, preventing a squib. It makes no more noise than the first gen and might save you some day.

This is a device I had on the first bullet collator I built. It ensured 100% were fed base down, no matter what. The bullets drop in from the near side tube and if nose up the smaller diameter of the nose would not activate the switch and they would go around and fall into another tube that fed the bullet feeder. If they were base up that would trigger the switch and open up the trap door culling the inverted bullet. I don't have a video of it doing its intended job but this is it sorting 380 from 9mm by height. http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o213/jmorrismetal/reloading/brass/th_9mm380.mp4

It's just a slot that the if the bullet is base down it rides over it and continues. If the bullet is inverted the smaller diameter of the tip will fall into the slot. Then as it moves around the bullet tip is drawn out until it is laid down and flipped back up by the ramp.

Thanks, just takes having a bunch of "stuff" and time.

With the Lee dies your sizing bullets, that takes a lot less force than actually swaging bullets (like cast lead cores, with or without a jacket swaged into a completely different bullet shape) vs sizing down a few thousands. However, the "pin" is for mounting in a single stage shell holder and no that won't fit in any 550 shell plate. The good news is any single stage will work and most would be a better choice even if you could use the 550. The last sizing machine I built used a Lee breach lock and other stuff I had sitting around.

If you wanted it a little more hands free than using tubes you could also get a MBF collator. Every bullet drops, if it's ok it drops into the tube, if it is inverted it flips it then drops it. So they don't just sit there and run all the time.At the beginning of this video you can see how one of my homade versions work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eANEMBS_V_0

Not there to measure one of mine but 15/16" socket is what one would use on a 5/8" bolt 11 or 18 threads per inch.

I have found the plastic bushing for the powder measure in a can of powder, after I noticed it was missing after returning powder from the measure to the can. Think this fellow found a primer in there. http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?170717-dillon-powder-measure&highlight=Powder+measure+blew

Had my fingers mashed 30+ years ago, I was the bullet feeder/collator and my Brother was the case feed and autodrive. The manual has no rules, and when your a kid some things are learned the hard way. We did manage to load 800 rounds in an hour on an SD though.

What scale do you have with a resolution to a thousandth of a grain? Take the measure off and make sure the plastic bushing is still there.

I coat my own now but used Precision bullets (the first successful coated bullet) for years. I preferred the cast bullets that had the groove before David started swaging them without the groove. Made the bullets shorter, a bit more difficult to collate.

You can't even get a base 1050 for that unless it's used.

No part # that I know of but you could fashion something like it pretty easy to see if it would allow the Horndy plate to work with the Dillon collator.

I would bet a dollar there are more Lee owners here than RCBS. Very few owners of green progressives. I already had at least one of all the Dillon's, a couple LNL's and a Pro 2000, the Lee was given to me by a frustrated owner and I figured it would be an interesting puzzle. They can be made to work but wouldn't be in my top five picks for progressive presses.

I suspect your problem is not using Dillon parts but the tab to the left of the opening in this photo is what you can slide. The baffle #13688 is for the old collators with the rectangle funnel, you installed it for small cases like 9mm and 380. The later model collators with the round funnel do not need them.