small pistol feeder
Quote from Reloader on September 6, 2020, 6:25 pmSure hope this gets thru. I have been trying to contact someone with your organization about a prbelm I have with my 550B. few weeks ago I got lucky and contacted someone and did not get an answer. My problem is with small primer feeder. I have been using this machine since the 90s mostly loading large pistol and large rifle. An now trying to load small pistol. It seems like anywhere between 10% and 15% of the primers will turn over and I cannot figure out why. This seems to me to be very dangorus if firing pin hits it.Since this has happened several times I am extremely careful and making sure the primers are in the proper position when I am loading them in the feeder tube. Since the machine has been used for a long time would like to buy item 14051 primer feeder stop pin (2 of them ) and item 13999 small feeder tube tip. Hope this helps other wise machine is? I don't know who does your web site but they are trying to hard to make it to complicated. I followed all the instructions and clicked on what I was told to click on and did not work.
Sure hope this gets thru. I have been trying to contact someone with your organization about a prbelm I have with my 550B. few weeks ago I got lucky and contacted someone and did not get an answer. My problem is with small primer feeder. I have been using this machine since the 90s mostly loading large pistol and large rifle. An now trying to load small pistol. It seems like anywhere between 10% and 15% of the primers will turn over and I cannot figure out why. This seems to me to be very dangorus if firing pin hits it.Since this has happened several times I am extremely careful and making sure the primers are in the proper position when I am loading them in the feeder tube. Since the machine has been used for a long time would like to buy item 14051 primer feeder stop pin (2 of them ) and item 13999 small feeder tube tip. Hope this helps other wise machine is? I don't know who does your web site but they are trying to hard to make it to complicated. I followed all the instructions and clicked on what I was told to click on and did not work.
Quote from Reloader on September 7, 2020, 1:29 amIt sounds like you have sufficient knowledge of you machine to ensure that your primers are properly loading into the primer magazine. Since the only thing you are doing differently is the size of the primers, I suspect the problem may lie in the height of your primer cup. Since you have just begun using this slide, I doubt dirt/crud in the primer cup/spring assembly is the issue. Occasionally these things get a bit out of spec and it's easy to check. Using a quality caliper, measure the height (meaning the distance between the bottom of the primer slide to the top of the primer cup. Dillon says the distance should be between 1.215 and 1.220 inches. Whenever I have run into a similar problem--or when the primer cup isn't picking up a primer (and where I have not managed to stick a primer at the inside rear of the magazine) the problem for me has always been this height measurement. If this is NOT the case, I would like to know since if something like this can happen to your machine, it can happen to mine.
Best,
Terry
It sounds like you have sufficient knowledge of you machine to ensure that your primers are properly loading into the primer magazine. Since the only thing you are doing differently is the size of the primers, I suspect the problem may lie in the height of your primer cup. Since you have just begun using this slide, I doubt dirt/crud in the primer cup/spring assembly is the issue. Occasionally these things get a bit out of spec and it's easy to check. Using a quality caliper, measure the height (meaning the distance between the bottom of the primer slide to the top of the primer cup. Dillon says the distance should be between 1.215 and 1.220 inches. Whenever I have run into a similar problem--or when the primer cup isn't picking up a primer (and where I have not managed to stick a primer at the inside rear of the magazine) the problem for me has always been this height measurement. If this is NOT the case, I would like to know since if something like this can happen to your machine, it can happen to mine.
Best,
Terry