Brass shavings on shell plate
Quote from RB85 on March 1, 2024, 6:20 pmOver the last 4 years I've loaded about a thousand rounds of 9mm per month on my xl750 with very few issues. Recently I've noticed lots of brass shavings accumulating on the shell plate and on the loaded ammo. I have adjusted my sizing die, the amount of flair on the case mouth and my Redding seating die and backed out the taper crimp die till it just kisses the brass and the problem still exist. Can it be the brass I'm using it is new primed pull down brass and all head stamped Blazer. The only change I've made on the press is I removed the decapping pin on my Dillon sizing die. The loaded ammo looks perfect but leaves lots of shavings in my guns and a mess on and around my press.
Over the last 4 years I've loaded about a thousand rounds of 9mm per month on my xl750 with very few issues. Recently I've noticed lots of brass shavings accumulating on the shell plate and on the loaded ammo. I have adjusted my sizing die, the amount of flair on the case mouth and my Redding seating die and backed out the taper crimp die till it just kisses the brass and the problem still exist. Can it be the brass I'm using it is new primed pull down brass and all head stamped Blazer. The only change I've made on the press is I removed the decapping pin on my Dillon sizing die. The loaded ammo looks perfect but leaves lots of shavings in my guns and a mess on and around my press.
Quote from Xiphos on March 1, 2024, 7:52 pmQuestion: At which stage of the process are the shavings appearing?
Start with a sparkling clean machine and load one round at a time (complete round) while paying close attention to see when the shavings are generated.
Once the stage has been identified, correction of the problem becomes much easier.
Question: At which stage of the process are the shavings appearing?
Start with a sparkling clean machine and load one round at a time (complete round) while paying close attention to see when the shavings are generated.
Once the stage has been identified, correction of the problem becomes much easier.
Quote from RB85 on March 1, 2024, 8:27 pmI think I may have found the cause of my brass shavings. I'm a bit OCD and only load clean deprimed matching head stamp brass because the press runs much smoother and stays cleaner that way and up until a couple weeks ago it was all Speer or Federal. I got to thinking the length of the casing might be the cause of the shaving so I checked and found much of the new Blazer brass to be longer than the Speer and Federal brass that had been loaded several times. So it must be a combination of the longer brass and the taper crimp die that cause the issue.
I think I may have found the cause of my brass shavings. I'm a bit OCD and only load clean deprimed matching head stamp brass because the press runs much smoother and stays cleaner that way and up until a couple weeks ago it was all Speer or Federal. I got to thinking the length of the casing might be the cause of the shaving so I checked and found much of the new Blazer brass to be longer than the Speer and Federal brass that had been loaded several times. So it must be a combination of the longer brass and the taper crimp die that cause the issue.