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Posted: 8/22/2017 12:00:55 AM EDT
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A good friend of mine passed away a couple years ago. Terrible story. The world lost one of the greatest dudes you could have ever met.
This spring I finally bought his Dillon 650 press from his widow. I've never once used a progressive press, and it makes me feel like a rookie just looking at it. I've been reloading on a single stage RCBS press for almost ten years, doing about 7 rifle calibers. Long story short it came with seven of these.... I'll call them "stages" The only two I'll probably keep are the 9mm and 223 stages. The rest are like .40, .45, 45LC etc. I think he also had 44 and .50AE but I haven't done inventory on them all yet. How much are each of these stages worth if i were to sell the ones for calibers I don't need ?Attached File |
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A good friend of mine passed away a couple years ago. Terrible story. The world lost one of the greatest dudes you could have ever met. This spring I finally bought his Dillon 650 press from his widow. I've never once used a progressive press, and it makes me feel like a rookie just looking at it. I've been reloading on a single stage RCBS press for almost ten years, doing about 7 rifle calibers. Long story short it came with seven of these.... I'll call them "stages" The only two I'll probably keep are the 9mm and 223 stages. The rest are like .40, .45, 45LC etc. I think he also had 44 and .50AE but I haven't done inventory on them all yet. How much are each of these stages worth if i were to sell the ones for calibers I don't need ?https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/27901/IMG_5267-287029.JPG More specifically...those would be called "dedicated toolheads". What you have there in that pic is like a conglomeration of two Dillon product groupings. one is the Dillon "650 quick change" which consists of 4 things: 1. powder measure 2. powder die 3. toolhead 4. toolhead stand (not in your pucture) That is $113. Then what else you have pictured there are the Dillon dies...a 3 die set to.be specific. What you don't have pictured at all is the caliber conversion kits, which look like this: 
Those are $79. |
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Sorry to hear about the loss of your friend.
Another way to look up parts and their 'new' cost is to use the Dillon conversion tool. It will provide the Dillon part number for each component in a caliber conversion/change-over kit. |
| I just got done selling my 550 a few months ago. Sold almost all of it in 24 hours priced at 80% of Dillon shipped. If you price it that way it will move fast. Please feel free IM me if you help with anything. It's a bummer but you will not have any problem selling it quickly priced right. |
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Those are quick change kits with dies. QC kit is around $125..Dies start at $45 and go up from there.
There are also probably bits and pieces called caliber change kits, consisting of buttons, shell plate, bushings, and shell guides. Heh.....someone faster than me. I just bought another QC kit and CC kit a few days ago. 
Buy it all. Trust me, you need EVERYTHING there!!!! 
Even calibers I never would thought of reloading, I am now reloading. .30-06 is next on my list. |
So here's what I ended up with. Calibers I'll KEEP - 9mm and 223 Calibers I WONT need 40 cal, 10mm, .50AE, .45ACP, .45 Long Colt, .45 GAP I may part some of this stuff out to save some of the bases and powder measures for putting 308,30-06 and 6.5 Grendel dies into. |
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Learn how to use it and wait to sell, you might find that you want everything |
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In case you haven't figured it out yet, from that picture the press has primers in it.
I wouldn't think setting up the 650 for each of your rifle calibers would make sense unless you shoot alot. Although I could see 308/30-06 (they uses the same conversion kit) |
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In case you haven't figured it out yet, from that picture the press has primers in it. I wouldn't think setting up the 650 for each of your rifle calibers would make sense unless you shoot alot. Although I could see 308/30-06 (they uses the same conversion kit) The main reason I bought the press was just to hopefully speed up brass prep for my rifle rounds. I work 70-80 hours a week most months so if I can make the sloooooooow brass prep go faster..... sit down and knock out a couple hundred cases then maybe when I'm not in a hurry the final reloading with my single stage might not be so bad. |
| I'm with the others sell nothing for now if you think you will be setting up other calibers. I currently load 5 3 pistol and 223, 308 and use 2 tool heads per rifle caliber. Also have I tool head set up for everything you load is really nice so you can leave everything set up. |
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