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Posted: 10/24/2011 12:04:30 PM EDT
| Can someone with a 550b and a camera snap me some pictures. My buddy got a 550 from his father and we are having trouble setting up the priming system. When the primer cup is pulled beneath the primer drop the cup is crushing the tip. I load on a Rockchucker and hand prime everything so the blue koolaid is foriegn to me. If I can get some pictures or words of advice I can help get him rolling. Thanks in advance. |
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One thing that occurs to me, is the primer tube inside the housing turned correctly? The silver color tube only fits one way, you drop it into the black outer tube and then rotate it till it drops into place. Don't hesitate to call Dillon cust service if you have trouble understanding something. |
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Loosen the two set screws that holds the primer seater bar into place. Without primers lower the shell plate into position as well as the primer bar. With the primer bar in position, hand tighten the two set screws. Crank the handle a couple of times until your'e confident when lowering the handle it compresses the primer feed cup on the primer charge bar. Keep the handled lowered and then tighten the two set screws with an allen head wrench. Don't over tighten. Check again without primers in the system so every stroke of the handle transverses the primer charge bar and the shell plate compresses the primer seater cup. |
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Can someone with a 550b and a camera snap me some pictures. My buddy got a 550 from his father and we are having trouble setting up the priming system. When the primer cup is pulled beneath the primer drop the cup is crushing the tip. I load on a Rock Chucker and hand prime everything so the blue Kool Aid is foreign to me. If I can get some pictures or words of advice I can help get him rolling. Thanks in advance. Where in Texas are you located? There are many in north Texas (DFW area) who load on 550B presses in case you might be interested in any hands-on assistance... |
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Can someone with a 550b and a camera snap me some pictures. My buddy got a 550 from his father and we are having trouble setting up the priming system. When the primer cup is pulled beneath the primer drop the cup is crushing the tip. I load on a Rock Chucker and hand prime everything so the blue Kool Aid is foreign to me. If I can get some pictures or words of advice I can help get him rolling. Thanks in advance. Where in Texas are you located? There are many in north Texas (DFW area) who load on 550B presses in case you might be interested in any hands-on assistance... Now THAT is what I call customer service! You guys ROCK!!!! 
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| I'm in Copperas Cove, about 3 hrs south of DFW. A few guys that shoot local matches here have dillions I can probably go look at their presses if I get a chance. I have thought about his press all day after messing with it last night. I'm still not understanding how the primer falls out of that nipple into the primer cup. We looked at Dillions site and found under the trouble shooting page that we had the wrong primer cup on( silver instead of gold, loading 9mm) . He is supposed to call there tech support tonight to see if they can talk him through it. I think I'll stick to my single stage. |
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I'm in Copperas Cove, about 3 hrs south of DFW. A few guys that shoot local matches here have dillions I can probably go look at their presses if I get a chance. I have thought about his press all day after messing with it last night. I'm still not understanding how the primer falls out of that nipple into the primer cup. We looked at Dillions site and found under the trouble shooting page that we had the wrong primer cup on( silver instead of gold, loading 9mm) . He is supposed to call there tech support tonight to see if they can talk him through it. I think I'll stick to my single stage. naw, once he gets the bugs worked out you're gonna be BLUE with envy! |
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Loosen the two set screws that holds the primer seater bar into place. Without primers lower the shell plate into position as well as the primer bar. With the primer bar in position, hand tighten the two set screws. Crank the handle a couple of times until your'e confident when lowering the handle it compresses the primer feed cup on the primer charge bar. Keep the handled lowered and then tighten the two set screws with an allen head wrench. Don't over tighten. Check again without primers in the system so every stroke of the handle transverses the primer charge bar and the shell plate compresses the primer seater cup. This.... You need to center up the primer cup with the corresponding hole in the shell plate... or at least thats what it sounds like... and make sure you are using the correct cup for the primer size as someone else suggested... |
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Loosen the two set screws that holds the primer seater bar into place. Without primers lower the shell plate into position as well as the primer bar. With the primer bar in position, hand tighten the two set screws. Crank the handle a couple of times until your'e confident when lowering the handle it compresses the primer feed cup on the primer charge bar. Keep the handled lowered and then tighten the two set screws with an allen head wrench. Don't over tighten. Check again without primers in the system so every stroke of the handle transverses the primer charge bar and the shell plate compresses the primer seater cup. This.... You need to center up the primer cup with the corresponding hole in the shell plate... or at least thats what it sounds like... and make sure you are using the correct cup for the primer size as someone else suggested... We got the primer cup to line up with the shellplate. Bare with me I'm not sure of all the correct parts yet. The shellplate part is GTG. The part we can't figure out is when you pull the handle on the press, the primer cup slides toward where you are standing. When it slides under the tube of primers it crushes the nipple on the primer tube and no primers fall in the cup. |
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We got the primer cup to line up with the shellplate. Bare with me I'm not sure of all the correct parts yet. The shellplate part is GTG. The part we can't figure out is when you pull the handle on the press, the primer cup slides toward where you are standing. When it slides under the tube of primers it crushes the nipple on the primer tube and no primers fall in the cup. To state the obvious - primer cup is too high, or primer tube tip is too low. AssaultRifler's sugestion is where you should start and will make sure the primer cup is not too high. If that fails: Primer cup still too high - maybe the shellplate is not tight enough and not pushing the cup low enough when you adjust it? In other words it lifts a little when you depress the cup. You might also take out the primer tube and make sure the tip shoulder isn't buggered up allowing the tube to drop too low, that you have the correct tip, etc.. BTW - on mine black tip is large primer, blue tip is small primer. Make sure you haven't accidently used a primer tube with a primer pickup tip. Next take of the primer assembly and make sure everything is clean, particularly under the track bearing (shim under primer slide bar). |
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Get out your manual or go on Dillon's website and look at the manual. Look on page 9, figure 12. It points out the set screw near the base of the housing, p/n 13961 that is used to adjust the travel of the arm so it picks up a primer correctly. Adjust it and that should solve your problem. |
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OK, now I understand the problem. I think you have the wrong tip in the primer feed tube like simple1 said. Don't confuse the primer pick up tube with the primer feed tube. The tip on the feed tube should be slotted so it can be indexed in the primer feed system. Don't overtighten the knurled cap on top on the primer feed system. Post a photo or two so we can see what's going on |
| I'll have to go over there and snap some photo's but here is what I know. We put a brand new blue tip on that has a slot in it on the very end. It is a little differant than the one on the pickup tube. Now my next question... Are the primer sleeves that you dump the primers into differant sizes? Could that be the problem? I'm going to go look at dillion's site again and look in the manual. Thats again for the help |
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I'll have to go over there and snap some photo's but here is what I know. We put a brand new blue tip on that has a slot in it on the very end. It is a little differant than the one on the pickup tube. Now my next question... Are the primer sleeves that you dump the primers into differant sizes? Could that be the problem? I'm going to go look at dillion's site again and look in the manual. Thats again for the help there are small and large primer pick-up tubes |
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With the 550B should have 4 primer tubes: - 1 small primer pick-up tube. This is the tube you put primers in one at a time until it's full. The current style has two tips. One end is where you pick up primers one at a time, the other end has a cotter pin in it. - 1 large primer pick-up tube. Same as above but has a larger inner diameter to fit larger primers. - 1 small primer feed tube. This is what goes inside the black metal pipe on the 550B. It has a slotted tip on one end and no plastic tip on the other end - 1 large primer feed tube. Same as above but larger inner diameter for large primers You want primer feed tubes inside the black metal pipe on your 550B |
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With the 550B should have 4 primer tubes: - 1 small primer pick-up tube. This is the tube you put primers in one at a time until it's full. The current style has two tips. One end is where you pick up primers one at a time, the other end has a cotter pin in it. - 1 large primer pick-up tube. Same as above but has a larger inner diameter to fit larger primers. - 1 small primer feed tube. This is what goes inside the black metal pipe on the 550B. It has a slotted tip on one end and no plastic tip on the other end - 1 large primer feed tube. Same as above but larger inner diameter for large primers You want primer feed tubes inside the black metal pipe on your 550B I think this could be the problem. Differant feed tubes |
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OK, now I understand the problem. I think you have the wrong tip in the primer feed tube like simple1 said. Don't confuse the primer pick up tube with the primer feed tube. The tip on the feed tube should be slotted so it can be indexed in the primer feed system. Don't overtighten the knurled cap on top on the primer feed system. Post a photo or two so we can see what's going on This is also very impotant. Do not over tighten the top cap on the primer tube. |
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