Maintenance
Quote from Reloader on March 9, 2017, 4:50 pmHow many rounds before you do a maintenance teardown/parts replacement? How many rounds does Dillon recommend?
How many rounds before you do a maintenance teardown/parts replacement? How many rounds does Dillon recommend?
Quote from Reloader on March 10, 2017, 2:14 pmI bought my XL650 back in December and have loaded about 6000 rounds of .45 ACP with it. I lube it about every 800 rounds. Nothing has worn out. It works perfectly. Admittedly, .45 ACP puts less stress on it than rifle cartridges do. But, in general, one shoots more pistol rounds than rifle rounds.
I bought my XL650 back in December and have loaded about 6000 rounds of .45 ACP with it. I lube it about every 800 rounds. Nothing has worn out. It works perfectly. Admittedly, .45 ACP puts less stress on it than rifle cartridges do. But, in general, one shoots more pistol rounds than rifle rounds.
Quote from Reloader on March 12, 2017, 3:27 amI wasn't inquiring about maintenance, but the Tech I was talking to said to grease the major linkage pivot points every 5000 rounds. I know from experience that powder gets every where. It can and will build up if you don't periodically lift the shell plate and either brush or vacuum the powder. Be sure and grab your indexing ball & spring, the pawl and the keep pins if you vacuum it - a shop vac will suck those up so fast all you hear is the "clunk" when they hit your vac's reservoir.
I know that wasn't much help, but I've had the primer assembly apart so many time I almost gave up. As a last resort I polished the primer raceways, because the reason my press was jamming up is a primer would get turned on end or otherwise out of place and shut the press down until I took the primer assembly off and started over. The polishing appears to have worked; I seated two primers edgewise into the primer pocket. I have no idea why they didn't detonate. But i don't have a primer problem any more.
I wasn't inquiring about maintenance, but the Tech I was talking to said to grease the major linkage pivot points every 5000 rounds. I know from experience that powder gets every where. It can and will build up if you don't periodically lift the shell plate and either brush or vacuum the powder. Be sure and grab your indexing ball & spring, the pawl and the keep pins if you vacuum it - a shop vac will suck those up so fast all you hear is the "clunk" when they hit your vac's reservoir.
I know that wasn't much help, but I've had the primer assembly apart so many time I almost gave up. As a last resort I polished the primer raceways, because the reason my press was jamming up is a primer would get turned on end or otherwise out of place and shut the press down until I took the primer assembly off and started over. The polishing appears to have worked; I seated two primers edgewise into the primer pocket. I have no idea why they didn't detonate. But i don't have a primer problem any more.