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  1. ha, just solved it. Thought about deleting the post but figured someone else might need the info one day. If you pull the Lyman M die apart, the mandrel and threaded stem are one-piece. At the top of the mandrel, almost where it meets the stem is a slight step in diameter. If you screw the die almost all the way down and then thread the stem very low in the die you can get that larger stepped diameter to make contact with the mouth of the case and it slightly bells the case mouth. The FB bullets will then stay in the neck. It looks kind of ugly and there's no way I'd do it for match ammo but the seater corrects the bell'd mouth and the crimp die negates all the deviation
  2. I did some research before buying a MBR for the 650. Found a lot of folks that had problems keeping a flat based bullet on a case while rotating the shellplate. Most folks said the fix was a Lyman M die. Basically an expander mandrel to open the neck. So I bought one. It expands the neck .003" but still doesn't hold a FB bullet. I started off just lightly belling the mouth and ended up fulling expanding the neck. No dice. Still doesn't hold a Hornady 55gr SP. Any ideas?
  3. Thank you. That is the correct height. I just picked the press this evening and measured it on my bench a couple of minutes ago. Measures 34". 38" is from the bottom of the ram. Plenty of incorrect answers.....
  4. Yep. That is copy and paste right off their website. However it doesn't clarify if it is from the bottom of the strong mount, from the bottom of the ram, or from the base of the press.
  5. Can anyone measure their press and tell me what the height is from the base of the press, where it would bolt on the mount (not including the mount), to the top of the case-feeder? Basically from the top of the mount to the top of the feeder? trying to figure out of a 650 will fit on my bench and clear the ceiling. Many thanks in advance.
  6. Thanks fellas. Starting to see a trend. I appreciate the input.
  7. Thanks. Do you just leave the first station empty on the loading toolhead? Do you use flat based bullets with a MBR? Any issues?
  8. Thanks. Do you just leave the first station empty on the loading toolhead? Do you use flat based bullets with a MBR? Any issues?
  9. Thanks for the replies fellas. Washing blaster brass twice is definitely not something I want to embrace but realize it may be a reality. Are you using the expander ball to debur bc the RT 1500 doesn't have a three way cutter? Crap, I over looked that. yuck! GTK that you're mitigating it will a button. I might invest in an expander mandrel if the M die doesn't smash the sharp edges out of the way.
  10. I've been loading on a 550 for about 12 years. 9, 40, 45, 223, 6.5Grendal, and 6BR. I've decided to get a 650 to disperse all of those by migrating the high volume loading away from the 550; 9mm and 223. Buying a used 650 from a buddy that had big eyes and smaller needs. I will be using a MBR and case feeder. I load 3 types of 223. 55gr SP flat base for 3G, 68/69gr match for longer range 3G or carbine matches, and finally 75gr bolt gun match for my 223 trainer barrel on my PRS rifle. The 69gr BTHP and 75gr loads are a no-brainer. They have BT's for the bullet feeder and are loaded using one brand of non-swaged-PP brass. The 55gr bulk load is where it gets tricky bc it's mixed headstamp brass so any number of it is probably swaged PP's and it needs a lot more case prep. Additionally, the bullets are flat based and from what I read folks use a Lyman M die to bell/ expand the case mouth to load FB bullets with the MBR to keep them from falling off the case while indexing. I was fairly obstinate against using a case prep toolhead but after looking at a lot of the facts it's either that or a MK 7 Evolution with a 10 hole toolhead, ha ha! So I've decided to set up a case prep toolhead using the case feeder to -> 1. Decap/ "Swage It", 2. RT 1500 resize/ trim, 3. M die mouth expand. Then, I can prep thousands of pc's of brass and when loading I can go from case feeder to -> 1. Prime, 2. Charge, 3. Bullet feed, 4. Seat, 5. Crimp. The two parts that are causing me some thought are, when to wet tumble and trying to gain an extra spot on the loading toolhead to use the powder check and MBR without having to use a seat/ crimp combo die since I already have Dillon 223 carbide dies. Option 1. It would be nice to tumble after prepping the brass so that the PP's are clean but frankly clean PP's don't even matter as much as most people think, even with precision rifle. The other advantage would be that it would clean the lube off after prepping the brass and before storage prior to actual loading. I won't need to lube the brass again when loading bc it's already sized so I won't have to worry about powder sticking to a wet case mouth. Option 2. Tumble prior to prepping the brass using a wax mixed in to get the case's clean AND somehow lubed without a case lube. I haven't done this however so I can't be sure that a "waxed" case won't jam in a sizing die. The advantage to this would be that I won't be running dirty lubed cases through the machine die. The disadvantage would be the UNK of this "wax" treatment and the PP's will hold a bit of moisture from wet tumbling with fired primers until they get run thru the case prep toolhead. Although, I can imagine this is probably a non-issue as long as I'm not loading right after case prep. For guys loading for similar needs as myself, What is your work flow when using a case prep toolhead?
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