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Posted: 9/3/2010 5:58:24 AM EDT
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Have you tried putting on a new plastic tip
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Posted: 9/3/2010 7:26:27 AM EDT
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Quoted: Have you tried putting on a new plastic tip   |
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Posted: 9/3/2010 8:15:12 AM EDT
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Anyone ever have problems with large pistol primers falling out of the Dillon large primer tubes? This is a brand new 550B that I am helping a friend set up. I have an older 550B and I never had this problem. Dane Yes, replacements did the same thing. These are new from Dillon. I will contact them for help. Dane |
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Posted: 9/3/2010 8:44:49 AM EDT
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Pictures would help. Someone might spot something in the pictures that you are missing.
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Posted: 9/3/2010 9:18:01 AM EDT
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Do they fall out of the tube which is loaded one primer at a time or from the main primer tube that is housed in the steel tube which feeds primers to the primer feeder/seater.
If they fall from the pick up tube (loaded one at a time) as you invert the tube to dump into the main protected tube, then perhaps you have forgotten to first insert the carter key into the non-pick up end before flipping that tube to dump primers into the protected tube. |
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Posted: 9/3/2010 10:33:22 AM EDT
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Anyone ever have problems with large pistol primers falling out of the Dillon large primer tubes? This is a brand new 550B that I am helping a friend set up. I have an older 550B and I never had this problem. Dane I think some have not fully read the OP's post. He does have experience with his own 550B. |
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Posted: 9/3/2010 10:52:11 AM EDT
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If you're not using the plastic tip meant for the magazine tubes, in lieu of the pick up tube's plastic tip (both lg/sm) then it's possible that they were manufactured with NOT enough tension to hold the primers in the pickup tube while you're picking them up.
I could see some Chinese fuck taking a 'chum break' while that batch was going through the injection moulding machine. Chris |
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Posted: 9/4/2010 5:24:15 AM EDT
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If they are falling out of the plain end, insert the hitch pin.
If they are falling out of the end that you load them in, change the plastic end. |
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Posted: 9/4/2010 6:03:29 AM EDT
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First time I've heard of that............had mine for way over twenty years and never a hitch.........same old primary feed tubes too!
I'd suggest you closely check the tension spring on the feed block assembly.............just might not have enough tension. Another thought is if you're seating the feed tube properly............mine have a plastic 'tit' that must seat fully down......I'd assume that even tho mine's old as hell that the system is still the same. Failing all else call Dillon! |
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Posted: 9/5/2010 6:41:31 AM EDT
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At what point/place are the primers falling out? After loaded into the magazine, or during primer transport on the way to the primer seat stem?
I load on a Dillon 550 RL & a SDB. Thanks. |
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Posted: 9/6/2010 4:55:06 AM EDT
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Took my older tubes over and they work fine. New ones have a problem.
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Posted: 9/6/2010 3:04:47 PM EDT
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Call Dillon, they will send new ones, free and fast.
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Posted: 9/7/2010 2:49:21 AM EDT
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I didn't want to start a new thread to ask this question....
When picking primers up with the tube, how do you get the last primer you picked up to go far enough into the tube to drop out when you invert it and pull the pin? I have been using an allen wrench and just shoving it further in there. Is there a proper way? 
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Posted: 9/7/2010 4:21:21 AM EDT
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Quoted: I didn't want to start a new thread to ask this question.... When picking primers up with the tube, how do you get the last primer you picked up to go far enough into the tube to drop out when you invert it and pull the pin? I have been using an allen wrench and just shoving it further in there. Is there a proper way? yeah just poke it, I use the cotter pin which has to be removed to let the primers drop in the first place |
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Posted: 9/7/2010 9:56:26 PM EDT
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There are two different type plastic tips used. One is for the magazine tube, which has no tension on it. The ones used on the pickup tube has tension on it.
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Posted: 9/8/2010 7:34:44 PM EDT
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Quoted:
I didn't want to start a new thread to ask this question.... When picking primers up with the tube, how do you get the last primer you picked up to go far enough into the tube to drop out when you invert it and pull the pin? I have been using an allen wrench and just shoving it further in there. Is there a proper way? 
Proper way is to use the nail (copper nail left side of primer tube holder) to poke primer in before you place tube in holder. |
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Posted: 9/9/2010 2:47:00 AM EDT
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Note to self:
"Make primer tube holders like Dryflash's before you tear yours up" Thanks 
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Posted: 9/9/2010 5:55:28 AM EDT
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What's the story with the blue and yellow tips, mine are just plain yellow tips for small primers and green tips for large primers |
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Posted: 9/9/2010 12:14:48 PM EDT
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What's the story with the blue and yellow tips, mine are just plain yellow tips for small primers and green tips for large primers I think that is the adapter tip for use on the Dillon primer filler machine. |
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Posted: 9/9/2010 7:57:35 PM EDT
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What's the story with the blue and yellow tips, mine are just plain yellow tips for small primers and green tips for large primers About 20 or so years ago I began my own personal color code system. I didn't like Dillon's yellow and green. I was already on the Blue/Red system. Blue is for the small size. Red is for large size. 
Blue paint on primer seater, and primer tube. 
Blue, small expander ball, Red large expander ball. 
Loading 45 ACP, Red primer tubes 
Make your own. You don't really nead a chunk of oak, a piece of 2x4 would work. Don't forget the nail. 
A couple more I made to give away for my 10k contest. Notice the improved grove on the side of block for easy grasping. Block in first pic didn't have the groove. |
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Posted: 9/10/2010 3:33:11 AM EDT
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Tip for anyone making those primer blocks, the yellow primer tube tips are smaller in diameter than the green primer tube tips.
Make 2 different size holes, one for small and one for large. Worse case is the green ones won't fit in the holes for the yellow ones and the yellow ones will flop all around in the larger holes Here's some I had made up. Fancy use of a router, sanded, edges rounded, poly'd.   |
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Posted: 9/10/2010 8:11:45 PM EDT
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I must be using a larger drill bit than you, as I drill the same size holes for each size of tube.
I should know better than get in a photo contest with AssaultRifler.
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