Case Feeder Issues
Quote from Reloader on January 4, 2010, 1:28 amI got a case feeder for my 550 for Christmas. It's all set up, but I'm having a couple of problems:
1) The "fingers" on the turret that I use to cycle the rounds hit the cam on the case feeder. I had to bend them down a little so they'd clear. There's a cutout on the cam, but it's way too low to be useful.
2) When seating primers in 9mm, the brass gets tipped toward the case feeder and won't insert the brass. The brass is fully inserted since I can't get it to move in any more, but I have to tilt the brass inward so the brass will seat. This happens about 40% of the time, but it's a bigger pain to wait for it to fail so I do it all the time. This makes the casefeeder slower than doing it by hand. I had a similar issue without the casefeeder, but careful adjustment of the paperclip (the wire that holds the brass in) resolved the problem. Now, without the paperclip, I have the same problem.
The manual says to adjust the cam for the caliber. With the mounting bolts loosened, the cam doesn't move. It's wedged between the feeder and mounting post (front to back) and sideways motion doesn't seem to be limited by anything, so I'm assuming the bolts are the same diameter as slot in the cam because it barely moves side-to-side (<1mm and only on the back bolt).
-Mike
I got a case feeder for my 550 for Christmas. It's all set up, but I'm having a couple of problems:
1) The "fingers" on the turret that I use to cycle the rounds hit the cam on the case feeder. I had to bend them down a little so they'd clear. There's a cutout on the cam, but it's way too low to be useful.
2) When seating primers in 9mm, the brass gets tipped toward the case feeder and won't insert the brass. The brass is fully inserted since I can't get it to move in any more, but I have to tilt the brass inward so the brass will seat. This happens about 40% of the time, but it's a bigger pain to wait for it to fail so I do it all the time. This makes the casefeeder slower than doing it by hand. I had a similar issue without the casefeeder, but careful adjustment of the paperclip (the wire that holds the brass in) resolved the problem. Now, without the paperclip, I have the same problem.
The manual says to adjust the cam for the caliber. With the mounting bolts loosened, the cam doesn't move. It's wedged between the feeder and mounting post (front to back) and sideways motion doesn't seem to be limited by anything, so I'm assuming the bolts are the same diameter as slot in the cam because it barely moves side-to-side (<1mm and only on the back bolt).
-Mike