Dillon Quirks
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You paid for the best - you should take advantage of the best - call Dillon Customer Support!!!!
They already know whatever is happening and will have the fix for you.
You'll even get advice from someone with a name and not an alias...
Glad you said it. May as well talk to a real expert since you paid for the service when you forked over your money.
Should have bought a Dillon - buy once, cry once... oh wait.
As I`ve already said I`m slowly working the kinks out
I`m brand new to this and I strongly suspect that most of my issues are down to "operator error"
The Dillon is quite the machine, no question
I'm not knocking Dillon or you.
But if somebody asked the same questions you did about setting up (for instance) Lee reloading equipment, we would have seen half a dozen Dillon owners virtue signalling: "buy once, cry once" by now. Nothing against you or Dillon, just noting that even Dillon machinery needs to be setup and adjusted.
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- Halifax - NS
The difference is Lee won't have an answer for a fix if called.
The user will have to search Youtube for all the rube-goldberg patches to make a half-ass reloading machine limp along for a couple weeks until something else goes wrong.
There's a 99% chance Dillon will say - "Oh, you did this." "Don't do that."
Buy once, cry once with Dillon - Buy once, Pull you hair out as long as you own the Lee...
DUH. Of course Dillon is quality - pretty sure I already said that.
Bit it's fun also to note just for the record, that sometimes stuff goes wrong. Even Dillon stuff. And if this was a Lee thread we would have a dozen remarks like the ones already mentioned.
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- Central AB
I have to agree with Jethunter. Any other brand, and the Dillon fan boys would have long since chipped in. As I read the posts, it strikes me that lots of Dillon owners have to do some tweaking and/or adjustments to get there presses working properly. Nothing wrong with that.
The double standard is sometimes more than a little obvious though. Someone posts a picture of a Lee with a broken handle, it's because the didn't cry enough when they bought it. Someone posts a picture of a broken handle on a Dillon (like a little while ago), and the comments are "lucky you bought a Dillon so you can get free parts)
Fact is that no presses are perfect, and all have a learning curve.
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- Central AB
True, with Dillon you pay for a lifetime supply of parts up front. Most other brands you just pay for the parts when you actually need them. Both approaches work.
I agree, the Dillon is a lifetime purchase one that I intend to hand down to my kid if I ever have one and I know even 15years down the road it'll still serve him or her.
yes I have had all the problems listed and here is a list of fixes. They are all fixed now!
If the 9mm is getting hung up upon ejection you need a new ejection wire. Solution: Call Dillon for a free replacement.
If your brass is getting hung up on top of the brass feeder tube, your brass feeder (and your press) could be attached to a bench that is not leveled. If the bench is not leveled, gravity is your enemy and the brass will bounce against the wall of the tube and eventually create the jam you depicted.
Since working on a perfectly leveled surface I did not encounter this problem in more than 10.000 rounds ( I have had 2 different 650 ).
Here is another common issue you will encounter (with any Dillon) : the deprimer station (station 1) not depriming. If this happens, you need to remove station 1 die and file the deprimer pin (just the edges).
Do not give up, the 650 is the best machine they make (besides the 1050) for consumers (not prosumers). Once you understand how it works and how to deal with all these little things, it will be flawless for many many thousand rounds.
I have had 2 and they all had the same issues when new. You need to work them out and you will be fine.
Also, look into upgrading certain parts on EBAY. Lots of really nice upgrades, specially depriming tubes and cam actuators. I have them and I love them.
I also recommend the bullet feeder from DAA.
Cheers
If the 9mm is getting hung up upon ejection you need a new ejection wire. Solution: Call Dillon for a free replacement.
If your brass is getting hung up on top of the brass feeder tube, your brass feeder (and your press) could be attached to a bench that is not leveled. If the bench is not leveled, gravity is your enemy and the brass will bounce against the wall of the tube and eventually create the jam you depicted.
Since working on a perfectly leveled surface I did not encounter this problem in more than 10.000 rounds ( I have had 2 different 650 ).
Here is another common issue you will encounter (with any Dillon) : the deprimer station (station 1) not depriming. If this happens, you need to remove station 1 die and file the deprimer pin (just the edges).
Do not give up, the 650 is the best machine they make (besides the 1050) for consumers (not prosumers). Once you understand how it works and how to deal with all these little things, it will be flawless for many many thousand rounds.
I have had 2 and they all had the same issues when new. You need to work them out and you will be fine.
Also, look into upgrading certain parts on EBAY. Lots of really nice upgrades, specially depriming tubes and cam actuators. I have them and I love them.
I also recommend the bullet feeder from DAA.
Cheers
Well I knocked off over 500 rounds this afternoon and it was...... flawless
Not one hang up on the ejection wire (pretty sure that was coming from running through unsized brass for depriving purposes)
No more jams on the case feeder tube since I made some small adjustments
All in all - very pleased
Not one hang up on the ejection wire (pretty sure that was coming from running through unsized brass for depriving purposes)
No more jams on the case feeder tube since I made some small adjustments
All in all - very pleased
I took the washer out of the case feeder and tried to run it (didn't work very well) and then when I put it back in I adjusted it so it would just slip if a case jammed somewhere
I suspect something wasn't lined up or centred correctly before cos since I did this everything has ran smooth
Don't be jealous JetHunter! You can own a Dillion as well... for a small price of few thousand dollars!
I'm guessing I bought my first Dillon before you even knew what reloading was.
After a decade or two I stopped having the compulsion to puff out my chest and remind everyone that "I own a Dillon!!".
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