glooooock

Thanks , the manual says tighten the shellplate and back off no more than 1/4 turn and lock the set screw . I guess I am at 1/8 as tighter the plate drags as it turns , I will experiment .

I picked up a ( used ) 650 last year $400 / case-feeder /4 die heads /3 sets of dies and loaded about 500 rds without incident , till I crushed a primer and chain fired the whole disc and tube of primers ( the only thing that flew off was the plastic rod ). I put the press in the attic and ordered parts , one of the Dillon techs here got a hold of me and figured the repair parts ,I added .45 caliber change to the order. I got it up and running yesterday ,using the alignment pin to check die head to shell-plate base alignment . Its basically powder measure case flare rod to the holes in the shell plate base on the ram . I figured it was a cast in stone setting / fit , well you can adjust the two Allen's for a bit of adjustment . OK , fine I ran 300 rds ( .40 ca. 155gr ) with little problem still I get a smeared primer on 1 in 20 primers ( like they are pushed sideways on top with the ram , they are in flat - just smeared ) . They seem to fire ,just wondered what the fix is for that .. I love the press and run it slow at a case every 2-5 seconds to watch case feeding / case powder levels . I played the shellplate bolt tightness / primer ram , it seems the same . I have used my LNL hornady for 10 yrs for reloading smaller runs 50 - 200 rds. Thanks

My 650 XL with case-feeder with a hand full of .40 brass is 42 lb on the bench . I have no idea what the box weight is

I would load for a medium cost goal , going for the super saver load general ends up bad with cheap bullets or brass . Run a few 50 - 100 round test runs , resist the urge to see what you MAX rounds per minute loaded speed is. If anything buy good scales.

XD niner I ordered the parts to repair mine for the same thing . I have a gut feeling its the primer punch length or shape . My Brand X press has pushed them in side ways / upside down , it has never had one ignite . Some wrote round the edges slightly , My 650 feels like I could push the primer through the case head at times ( or at least enough travel to do it ). Dillon says to check the indexing , once set the only thing that changes that is dirt /powder under the shellplate . Jamming the detent balls. Once you see slight crescent marks on the primers , your on the highway to hell.

Four years seems like a short amount of time for a $140 scale life-span. TimE **************************************** I agree , did you run it on batteries or AC adapter ? I have mine on battery only , so far so good . You would think they could change the $5 circuit board in that $135 plastic box , for $20 . Thats the first one I have heard of dieing on the bench. I am sure you tried all possible fixes , recalibrates , battery changes.

They list adapters and powder funnel 4th / 5th line down , I think the regular funnel will work. http://www.dillonhelp.com/rl1050_manual/rl..._conversion.htm

renaissance7697 I have the same issues , my view is the shell-plate and primer disc's are indexed by the detent balls ( you cant change that ) . Your only adjustment is the degree of rotation , toward or past the detent index . Dillon has a kit / alignment check pin( 13713 * BENCH - Alignment Fixture ). It verifies your adjustments at the index position , so all the plungers and discs -shell-plates are clocked to press the primer squarely into the case. Loosely tightened , dirty (powder dust ) , mis-adjusted rotation short or past the index point can all cause problems . Basically if you case goes around the shell plate unprimed with powder or you see a pinched primer ( tear it apart an clean it ). I love my 650XL ,, still a bit of a learning curve for me , as I lit off a whole tube of primers by pinching one primer after 300 rds of .40 ca ,,, that all went fine. Like you I am back on my 8 year old L-N-L Hornady , till I sort out the 650 .

If you can keep last two stations open with more room to bend, it works better ,but the angle is pressing to the side instead of out . I have bent stainless welding rod into shapes that work well for a few hundred rds. of .45 . Still a poor design .

********************************************************* Glooooock wrote The powder eats the plastic , deteriorating it . Most popular powder measures sell spares as a basic consumable part item. Chuck it and by a new one.

Since all 100+ primers went off at once in the tube and disc , I am gun shy. I still have my 650XL down , till I get the nerve to fix it . It also was pushing in primers at an angle . I could get a 200 rd run and it would go bad.

Yup , The progressive machines have trouble with short dies , not enough thread for the lock ring sometimes.

I buy the 10 pack , most all my dies are setup LNL . Save for the progressive and watch things really fly. Its so much quicker to pull a bullet seating die to clean it or change a de-capping pin with LNL.

®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®® Yes as far as I know , My press had been running .40 cal for a few K rounds before I got It. I checked the setup from what I knew . As I wrote I got 200 rds done , I checked the Diameter of the holes in all the tubes - primer wheels - plungers . From my limited grasp of the obvious , it seems the pin that pushes the primer up has too much travel and 5 out of 100 primers look "heeled " deeper on one side. As it was a new press to me ,I went slow till I got the rhythm of the press , I checked the stations before pulling the lever. I have to study the parts list names, re-watch the video for the third time. I don't want to call Dillon and order a Piston slide ram bearing knob schraube . I cleaned up everything , only the inner primer tube and black feed/ alarm rod were shot. It all went in one crack , no ta ta ta ta .Federal primers & mostly Fed. brass. Hans

I just had the samething happen ,it blew around the ring - up the tube . The black primer alarm rod has a slow spiral in it . No one piece burst / fragged or hit me . I still think my L/N/L Hornady progressive is safer in priming ----- it feeds one out to the turret at a time . I just wondered what the fix - parts list - operating tip is . I haven't called Dillon yet .For me I am out the tube and black rod I loaded 200 rds .40 cal without a hitch , all at a reasonable speed . I bought this press off a good friend ( $400 with a case-feeder -spares - 4 die heads- 2 measures ) . All the basics -correct primer wheel / size - shell plate- dies settings - case lube - is all fine . The small spring finger the hold case inside the shell-plate is fine. At times the primers look like they are pushed harder, on one side that the other,,. There is no way to change the primer wheel or case indexing , its all on detent balls. There is a pin to check it , aside from dirt or powder --- why would it change ????? 28 yrs of reloading ,,,, Lee loader to dillons ,,