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In the end I just sat at my desk working email on hold. Got through to Sam at Dillon and he helped me out. Turns out this is the first home sensor is the first one to to fail. Nice! I looked on his site, could not find one there. But the site is a bit tough to find stuff. I am going to just rig up a female RCA plug to the safty switch, so I can use my Double Alfa / Immortal Arms modified powder checks. For the low primer sensors, turns out I did get them from Dillon. Just packed in with my second press box I had not opened yet. Sheesh. Good to have them.

@Johnnymazz any luck figuring out a low primer hook up? I finally got my small primer 1100/DA3000 set up, good to see I am not the only one who removed all the safety things minus the chain cover. I move one of my 1050s on the latest AmmoBot over as a dedicated CP machine. Was thinking of pulling the low primer sensor, cutting it from the harness, then wiring it to hook up to the DA3000 shield safety switch. Was thinking of just putting a female RCA plug on that switch. Then all my Imortalbot switches could plug in, so the machine stops. Have to figure out what tripped it but still it would stop. I like using the universal decapping pin switch as a safety check in station 1, even all my brass is prepped separately. I am shocked the DA3000 did not include the primer safety switch integrated like it is (was) on the AmmoBots. That is the #1 shut down for me in the past on my AmmoBots. ISSUE: I have had my two 1100/DA3000 since Spring just taken me this long to get the time to set up the first one. Killed me as I fought the home sensor switch, could not get it to work, walk away, few weeks later try again and repeat. Finally wised up and pulled the other sensor from machine #2 in the box still. Problem solved. ARRRGH! It was a bad switch on DA#1. It’s been a week since I emailed Dillon to send out a replacement no word from them, going to have to call them. @Tom S. The chain cover is great in the new DA3000, but the rest is way overkill. Heck most of us running AmmoBots are used to exposed chains slapping back and forth! Yes that servo on the AmmoBot has the power to mimic that diagram with ones hand! Do agree stupid is out there. Lawyers have slowed Darwinism a bit.

Well solution for now. Rather than thinking #5 plastic part will not break without finding anything that will cause this I am switching it to a metal pin. The hole size in the adapter bar is .148 that is basically the minor side for a 10-24 cutting tap. Hand tapped the hole with no drilling. The powder cast aluminum cut easy and left perfect threads. I intentionally did not go all the way through this way the screw bottoms out on the bar and does not put pressure on the moving powder bar. The OD of the screw fits nicely through the top hole in the powder measure. Putting a drop of thread locker on the threads to keep the screw from backing out.

Nolan, thank you for the responce. Since this has broken with the older powder measure, then again with a brand new one out of the box, I am worried its something to do with the drive system pushing up. But I will check to see that the nub on the side is oriented correctly. If its not, then the new one out of the box was assembled that way. Yes the notch on the side is in the correct place for the drive arm to follow it. Pivot and full powder measure move without any restrictions, very easy to cycle by hand off the press. My two replacement plastic parts arrived yesterday. I am putting one into CAD incase I need to just machine a metal one. If I can not find what is making them break, just putting in a new one is sending it to its death as it will clearly brake as the other 4 have. Very tired of cleaning up 1lb of TiteGroup dumped down the machine and into the primer feed system.

After yrs of no issues suddenly my small primer D1050 w/ an AmmoBot drive is breaking the little white plastic pin that holds the small powder die adaptor in place. When it breaks the adaptor is in the open position so the powder hopper dumps its entire contents of powder down the back of the press. Huge mess and a PITA. 1. First one broke, choked it up as odd, pulled a back up I have from a tool head set up with the large powder drop. Cleaned up and checked my adjustments and nothing was excessive. Continued loading. 2. Second one broke, pulled one from a tool head not using but now is missing the part. Cleaned up and again checked for any extreme issues, jams, etc. nothing. e-mailed Dillon support. (no calls) They emailed me back a few days later they were shipping out parts. COOL very much appreciated but why is this doing this? 3. Third one broke! WTH. I swapped the entire powder measure with a brand new in the back spare I had. Re-adjusted the whole set up and went back at it. 4. Forth one broke last night, now this is getting ridiculous. Pulled my last spare powder measure I am set back up again BUT know its going to brake. I am thinking of making one using a roll pin but this clearly is an issue with my press that developed. Anyone else have this issue? It seems to be over stressing the plastic pin at the bottom of the downstroke. I have a Mr. Bullet feeder flaring funnell on it. Its set perfectly with the minimum flair needed so the down stroke is not excessive. I am thinking the push rod going up that cycles the powder bar is over traveling somehow, thus pushing the bar farther than intended and braking the little plastic pin. BUT WHY NOW suddenly. Two different powder measures, both did it. The only thing I have not done is pull the powder mount out of the tool head and install it again. But its the same powder mount that has loaded 40k+ 9mm rounds with no issues. Thoughts?

Its unfortunate that Ammobots are no longer able to be purchased since Dillon bought their assets. By them being off the market the only option I have for my next machine is Mark7. At that point I just buy the whole Mark7 vrs. an D1100 running a Mark7 drive. Was not planning on switching from Dillon but I really want the automation, and Mark7 is the only show in town with no information from Dillon as to if/when Ammobot will be back available.

Agreed. Obama taught me to stock primers and .22LR.

Never try a 1050 with a bullet feeder and AmmoBot auto drive then.....

No, I dump on a dry towel, use the towel to dump into food drier trays to dry. Any chips stuck to the water on the case fall to the base of the drier, talking maybe 12 chips total each batch. I have a 800GPH pump coming I am going to set up to have a hard blast of water spraying at the base of the hopper at the feed table. With the pump recirculating the water from the catch basin it should help cut running each batch though 2x down to one time. I actually looked at the "Feeder Bowls" used to sort hardware, they are what some of the large commercial loaders use to sort brass. Bowls with internal feed ramps up the inside walls with openings to allow different sized brass to fall to the outside ramps that then off load the sizes. But these are big $$. However the concept of the shaker table with proper sized screens on it, ya I would think it would separate different calibers.

That's how I clean my range pickups first, just soap and water. I then fully process the brass deprime/undersize/roll form and it then goes back in the wash with chips/soap/citric acid for the final cleaning. I just got tired of extracting the stainless chips manually.

USPS is subsidizing a considerable different industry's by undercutting UPS and FedEx on weight. We have hardware (nuts and bolts) vendors offering free shipping with USPS flat rate. Industry that makes steel brackets used for fabrication, uses custom made double wall liners for the weak USPS flat rate boxes to support “Free shipping on orders over X”. However USPS is the only options they use. MidWay, Grafs and Mid South are the only vendors I have received bullets from that shipped W/O using USPS. Grated most those orders were large, last Grafs order came on a pallet. 100% of the bullet direct companies I have received orders from shipped USPS flat rate. Unfortunately if USPS dropped their weights to like 10lbs, the bullet direct guys would very much have to raise their prices to stay in business. My last RMR orders arrived about 3 weeks after ordering even with the warnings on the site it would take longer. Included hand written “sorry for the delay” notes on the packing lists.

Got tied shaking a Franklin tumbler tub over a 5 gallon bucket. I run two tumblers at a time and it just gets old and killing my back. Looked for a better way. Soybean shaker table. Yup food processing gear, its stainless and ment to work hard. Found this China made one on eBay, typical doz or so different sellers all selling the same thing. Prices range from $400 used to $480 new shipped. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Soybean-Corn-Screener-Deck-Sifter-Shaker-Screener-Machine-Vibration-Motor-110V/264257359655?_trkparms=aid%3D1110012%26algo%3DSPLICE.SOIPOST%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D225086%26meid%3D7e16644f294b4f6ebff2434f90f8b7f3%26pid%3D100008%26rk%3D5%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D264408942560%26itm%3D264257359655%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DPromotedSellersOtherItemsV2&_trksid=p2047675.c100008.m2219 Arrived quickly and set it up out on the ranch next to the barn outside. Its about 36” long and 14” wide, so not too big to store and easy to pick up about 30lbs. Set up quick and ran the first round of brass though it. I am still playing with what the best set up is. I am going to add some water sprayers drawing from a pump in the media recovery bin, this way it recycles the same water. I ran the brass though 2 times takes not very long and so far is working great. Also going to add some magnets to the dump shoot for the brass, to catch any stray stainless chips that work down the sides. The gate off the hopper is adjusted to knock the brass over so they vibrate down the table on their sides, dumping any stainless media. I do not use pins, only stainless chips form Ammo Brass in FL. The chips work flawless in this set up. https://www.ammobrass.com/product-page/stainless-steel-cleaning-media-chips-for-wet-tumblers

Out of the box or did the Evolution take a bunch of tweaking to get it running as you have it now? The price on the Evolution is attractive over the Revolution, however I sure like the auto priming system the Revolution has. The Evolution primer tubes, can I use my Dillon primer tube filler to drop primers into the Evolution system on the press?

The lack of communication to sell the product actually has me concerned as to how its supported. Looks like the board here has the Evolution product figured out that may be the better way to go.

That is always the trade off for new, that is for sure.