it is a great option for commercial loaders vs the camdex, etc. much lower cost and allows you to have several working at once.
Yes, to a point I concur. I process large quantities of 223 brass on my 1050 for lots of people in the action shooting community.
I waiver the statement with this. I am speaking from my experience. When I reference 1500 rounds per hour, that does not mean I spool up to 1500, and then shut down when I am out of primer, projectiles, powder, brass. I spin it up to 1500 and it runs for an hour straight, minus any stoppages, and have someone keeping the machine fed. I believe that you could run 3 machines at that speed with 4 people though. I am using an RF-100, but you would have to replace that with a Camdex Syntron. It would be too much work to have 3 x RF-100's on the go to keep up.
The 1050, without some pretty serious mods is not capable of the production, nor level of quality that the Camdex is. There are two key things:
Processing
You can trim on the 1050 and you cannot on the Camdex (From the factory there are blank stations on the Camdex at the end which you could theoretically put an RT-1500)
The quality of the swage on the 1050 is suspect unless you have it dialed in perfectly. The swage quality degrades if you put mixed brass through it whereas the Camdex adjusts the swage automatically
The camdex has the built in checks, whereas the dillon relies on the operator. Meaning on the Dillon, your culls must be much more thorough.
Loading
Want to achieve a high cyclic rate? You cannot put range brass in and expect quality end product. It must be processed in some fashion prior to trying to load. For 223, I found the two pass system causes the least amount of headaches. Process, then load.
I have never had the Dillon through a double charge or squib. For the commercial reloader though; statistically over 5 million rounds (the serviceable lifespan of a well maintained Super 1050) your chance of having an error which you would not catch is much greater. I have played with the idea of an optical powder check to retain the bullet feeder, otherwise you cannot really have bullet feed and powder check.
I think the commercial re loaders who use the 1050 platform are essentially playing with fire. Unless they are only running one machine at a time and supervising it well. As it is a two person job really to even keep one fed and supervised at 1500 rounds per hour.
