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Posted: 7/7/2009 5:08:09 PM EDT
| I finally get my hands on some small rifle primers, my brass is all prepped and ready to go. The only thing slowing down my reloading is filling up those damn primer tubes on the Dillon 550. Any tricks or equipment that can keep that primer tube filled? Do most people just have a bunch of loading tubes and clip them off so they can just keep cranking and reload without having to stop and reload? |
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I finally get my hands on some small rifle primers, my brass is all prepped and ready to go. The only thing slowing down my reloading is filling up those damn primer tubes on the Dillon 550. Any tricks or equipment that can keep that primer tube filled? Do most people just have a bunch of loading tubes and clip them off so they can just keep cranking and reload without having to stop and reload? 
I made a wooden block to hold the filled primer tubes. Pic was taken just before I was filling #8. Loading 9mm on SDB here. I use the same block with my 550. The wooden block idea I got from CoSteve or AssaultRifler, a couple of the Dillon experts around here. |
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http://www.dillonprecision.com/uimages/missing_images/97077_rf_100_automatic_primer_filler_m.jpg Any problem can be solved with the proper application of $$$. Hang on. Is that thing seriously $300? I think I'll get some extra tubes. :-) |
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http://www.dillonprecision.com/uimages/missing_images/97077_rf_100_automatic_primer_filler_m.jpg Any problem can be solved with the proper application of $$$. Hang on. Is that thing seriously $300? I think I'll get some extra tubes. :-) You can buy A LOT of tubes for $300. 
Like 60 tubes. 
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I have more tubes than what's shown in the pic, but basically 15 large and 15 small primer tubes. Don't store primers in them for long periods of time, only ahead of time for a current reloading session. Two reasons: basically they're small pipe bombs and it's never good to have those laying around if you're not doing a current reloading project and secondly you might forget if there's small pistol or small rifle primers for example, in the small primer tubes .jpg) |
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Try this. A modified Lee hand primer with a vibrator.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joLPd2MQJME |
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I just stay on top of my empty brass to the point were I'm never really loading more than a hundred or so rounds at a time. I load after every shoot.
I could get away with only having 1 primer pick up tube. I've gotten away from the thrill of high volumes of ammo flowing from my machine and am now more interested in low volumes of high quality ammo. |
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