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Priming started to feel weird, primers were flush with the case head instead of ~.003 under. After some investigation, I found this:

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Well, nobody's perfect I guess. I've had parts replaced before, and Dillon CS was always great about it, but nothing this big has failed.

Guess I won't really need that 308 brass after all, at least for a few weeks.
 
:eek: Oh my gosh Dillon Press's break too..............Dont tell anyone (LOL):eek:

Oh well what do you do ,It sucks that your press broke, look at the bright side you have a bit more free time for the range untill your parts come :)
 
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My 25 year old Rockchucker is looking better everyday.
I use it for case forming and it takes it no problem at all.


Is the dillon made of Cast iron or is it alloy?
 
You are probably looking at the best reason to lube inside the case necks assuming that press extracts the sizer button on the up stroke.
 
brnolvr said:
My 25 year old Rockchucker is looking better everyday.
I use it for case forming and it takes it no problem at all.


Is the dillon made of Cast iron or is it alloy?
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No idea, is there an easy way to tell?

hoochie said:
what model was this on?
ahh doesnt matter, Dillon still rocks.

cheers,
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550B

stocker said:
You are probably looking at the best reason to lube inside the case necks assuming that press extracts the sizer button on the up stroke.
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It extracts the neck button on the upstroke of the handle, the downstroke of the ram, if that's what you mean. Approximately 2000 223 have been through it, but the sizing die has a carbide neck sizer so I've never used neck lube. The upstroke never required much force. The vast majority of reloads have been pistol anyway.
 
damndirtyape said:
No idea, is there an easy way to tell?


550B



It extracts the neck button on the upstroke of the handle, the downstroke of the ram, if that's what you mean. Approximately 2000 223 have been through it, but the sizing die has a carbide neck sizer so I've never used neck lube. The upstroke never required much force. The vast majority of reloads have been pistol anyway.
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I think iron should be attracted to a magnet
 
The 550b is cast Aluminium. If you use a spray (dillon spray works very well) you will likely get enough in the neck to lube that too. I would lube it still with Carbide dies (and do).
 
yes Dillon presses are cast Aluminum, and yes that "yoke" or whatever it is called is known to break on heavily used 550's. When you consider the billions of rounds that have been loaded on 550's, they are incredibly durable. When I ran a 550 , I got a spare yoke from Dillon, and of course never needed it.

The only problem I ever had with my 550 was the decapping- priming part, if I didn't keep it clean, it gave me problems.
 
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