550 primer seating problem
Quote from Reloader on October 14, 2020, 11:38 pmI find the stem and cup need to be seen too from time to time anyway. Another source of problems is a powder spill. Ball like powder will migrate into the priming system. I have a small Harbor Freight bench vice that works very well holding everything together during adjustment.
I find the stem and cup need to be seen too from time to time anyway. Another source of problems is a powder spill. Ball like powder will migrate into the priming system. I have a small Harbor Freight bench vice that works very well holding everything together during adjustment.
Quote from Reloader on December 1, 2020, 11:44 amI have a 550 and I have had the same problem with high seating primers. The pin that pushes the primer has enough travel to seat the primer but it doesn’t seam to push them far enough. I have made sure everything was adjusted properly even did the alignment procedure with the alignment tool. I started comparing my hand held primer tool to the dillon and discovered that on the dillon press the pin that pushes the primer is bigger than the one on the handheld tool. Enough so that the dillon pin does not fit into the primer cup hole!! The dillon will only push up to the radius Edge of the primer cup hole before it stops. Where as the pin on the hand held enters the primer cup hole. I think that’s why you read that the guys that are cutting primer crimps rather than swaging are getting better seating. Because they are making the opening of the primer cup hole a little bigger. Not sure if this was meant to be a design feature by dillon. Possibly to keep from crushing primers but it is causing me some frustration with consistent primer seating. Maybe someone from dillon could respond to this??
I have a 550 and I have had the same problem with high seating primers. The pin that pushes the primer has enough travel to seat the primer but it doesn’t seam to push them far enough. I have made sure everything was adjusted properly even did the alignment procedure with the alignment tool. I started comparing my hand held primer tool to the dillon and discovered that on the dillon press the pin that pushes the primer is bigger than the one on the handheld tool. Enough so that the dillon pin does not fit into the primer cup hole!! The dillon will only push up to the radius Edge of the primer cup hole before it stops. Where as the pin on the hand held enters the primer cup hole. I think that’s why you read that the guys that are cutting primer crimps rather than swaging are getting better seating. Because they are making the opening of the primer cup hole a little bigger. Not sure if this was meant to be a design feature by dillon. Possibly to keep from crushing primers but it is causing me some frustration with consistent primer seating. Maybe someone from dillon could respond to this??