Nolan Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 18 hours ago, DJRyan13 said: Dillon did same thing with 1100... Designers/Manufacturers screw up... Generally speaking, it's the Marketing department that makes promises that the Design and Manufacturing departments can't meet. Nolan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJRyan13 Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 7 minutes ago, Nolan said: Generally speaking, it's the Marketing department that makes promises that the Design and Manufacturing departments can't meet. Nolan sounds right... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincerama Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 On 2/6/2020 at 3:10 PM, Nolan said: Generally speaking, it's the Marketing department that makes promises that the Design and Manufacturing departments can't meet. Nolan I agree. I work in software and there is nothing really physical to send out, but dates slip if you don't want to ship a broken product and want to deal with returns or upgrades of faulty products. But it's also hard to show a product at a show and not have some date to give to prospective customers. I'd rather have a well working product than one that is rushed out the door. I have the dillon case feeder on one 550b, but I have another 550b that could do with a nice lower cost case feeder (that one just does .45). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiskey3 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Another update from Josh at Double Alpha. At least they are replying and being open about what is going on. We are working on the 550 case feeder. We felt the design we had last year was not ready as it did not solve all issues we needed it to address and we felt did not offer a robust enough solution. So we continued to work on it. We prefer not to come to market with a product until I am convinced it’s as good as we can make it! I think we are there now, and are shortly going to tooling. But that will be a three months process. So as it stands now, I expect it will be April or May at best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jschweg Posted March 8, 2020 Author Share Posted March 8, 2020 Another update from Josh at Double Alpha. At least they are replying and being open about what is going on. We are working on the 550 case feeder. We felt the design we had last year was not ready as it did not solve all issues we needed it to address and we felt did not offer a robust enough solution. So we continued to work on it. We prefer not to come to market with a product until I am convinced it’s as good as we can make it! I think we are there now, and are shortly going to tooling. But that will be a three months process. So as it stands now, I expect it will be April or May at best.Appreciate the updateSent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiskey3 Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Not unexpected news from Josh at Double Alpha . . . . . Unfortunately, with current global situation we have slowed this project down and kind of put it on the back burner. At this point all I can say is It MIGHT be available in early Jan 2021. I know this is not what you wanted to hear. Sorry for the inconvenience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJRyan13 Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 That’s too bad. I am having trouble buying a few things for myself. imagine what companies are going through trying to keep up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flatland Shooter Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 Well its now January 2021 and still no 550 case feeder on their website. The wait continues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gpghost Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 I have had a Dillon case feeder on my RL550 for years, no problems works great, and would spend the extra to have one and not wait......going on almost two years now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjmill87 Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 It's Finally Here! Who's going to try it? DAA 550 Mini Case Feeder (doublealpha.biz) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kboj Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 (edited) sorry, cjmill87 was faster than me Edited July 22, 2021 by Kboj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiskey3 Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 IT'S DONE AND IN STOCK READY TO ORDER !!! Looks like a contraption for sure. Still more compact and quieter than the Dillon monster. https://www.doublealpha.biz/us/daa-550-mini-case-feeder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EEH Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 Doesn’t Dillon have a case feeder for the 550 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RudyVey Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 3 hours ago, Wiskey3 said: IT'S DONE AND IN STOCK READY TO ORDER !!! Looks like a contraption for sure. Still more compact and quieter than the Dillon monster. https://www.doublealpha.biz/us/daa-550-mini-case-feeder Ordered one yesterday, will see how this will work out. Height-wise, I just fits onto my 550, the Dillon Monster would be too high (at least from what I saw in pictures). DAA told me the mini casefeeder is 27" high from the above tool head (I have about 30"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balakay Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 On 7/21/2021 at 2:05 PM, cjmill87 said: It's Finally Here! Who's going to try it? DAA 550 Mini Case Feeder (doublealpha.biz) Who is going to be a beta-tester is the real question Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdawgbeav Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 I want one, but can't justify it right now. Not really loading a whole lot with the primer shortage... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuz Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 8 minutes ago, bigdawgbeav said: I want one, but can't justify it right now. Not really loading a whole lot with the primer shortage... actually, now is the best time for you to buy it. Once primers become available you will be spending all your money on primers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdawgbeav Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 1 minute ago, Cuz said: actually, now is the best time for you to buy it. Once primers become available you will be spending all your money on primers. Hadn't thought of it like that... sound reasoning. And I can always save on shipping my picking it up since the warehouse is an hour from me. Can stop there on the way to Area 7 next week... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RudyVey Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 5 minutes ago, bigdawgbeav said: Hadn't thought of it like that... sound reasoning. And I can always save on shipping my picking it up since the warehouse is an hour from me. Can stop there on the way to Area 7 next week... Make sure to call them and get a confirmation when you want to go there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RudyVey Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 So, it arrived here yesterday with the mail. I installed it today, took maybe an hour as I was going upstairs to watch some part of the video and then down in the shop to do the next step. You need a couple of metric hex keys, so they did not tell you this, glad I have a set as well. It works just fine, as shown in the video. The only hard part was to get the part that sits on top of the primer outside tube was very tight and it took me maybe some 10 minuets to get this on; one would need three hands, two to pry the slit open and the third one to push the unit onto and down the tube. Only one problem I have seen so far is that the cases are not really supported during the step 1, the re-size/prime - the original Dillon setup has the little wire spring....and this one has nothing as they need the path clear. So, if you go too fast, the case may not be perfectly aligned and this gives you issues with setting the primer. Slowing down a bit helps to improve this, I also found that some cases are more prone for this. Other than this, just works like it should be and you keep the hand on the handle. The reloading process is a bit faster. I keep this on the one press with the small primers for 9 mm and also 357 mag - just need to change the red tube and the spacer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RudyVey Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 Update on the case feeder after approx 1k rounds loaded. Working as expected. Not much faster than manual loading the case into first stage. One must make sure the case is properly aligned. If you think you have a nice rhythm going, some odd case will not align, and one must use a finger to set the case "straight". But, no much space there to do this. I developed some kind of technique where I give the handle a little wiggle and this mostly straightens the case. The one other thing that annoys me is that spent primer flying all over, and I have not figured out why. Rarely had I a spent primer flying around before I installed the case feeder. Loading the magazine tubes with the funnel is going very fast, and in the 5 or 6 mags I have loaded, I think I had one or two cases upside down. If they came up with a fix to hold the case in stage one until the die comes down, then this would be a perfect thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RudyVey Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 So yesterday I converted from 9 mm to 357 mag. For this caliber (and I guess fir 38 spl) this feeder works just perfect. No need to wiggle the press handle so the case is properly aligned for the primer to be set. With 357, the case is perfectly aligned and I got up to quite some speed. Love it for this round. For 9 mm it takes too much to look out for and make sure the case alignment is good, otherwise, crushed primers are the result. Would I get this again?? As a feeder for a dedicated press for 357 and 38 spl, absolutely, for 9 mm - no!! I have two 550's, one each for larger and small primers, so the small is used for the revolver calibers and the 9 mm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip62 Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 Thanks RudyVey this helps me a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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