thwkman
Member
Pardon the balthering stream of consciousness,
I inherited this Dillon 450 setup for 9mm. I've manually loadsed a few 9mm rounds and the basic components seem to work fine execpt priming. It look like I am missing what I believe is called the "primer magazine small". I've got pickup tubes andnt ey work great for picking up those pesky primers, but it's obvious to me that the primer feed tube is to big to funnel small primers ) or large for that matter. It appears that something like a tube within a tube is required which I surmise is the function of the primer magazine.
So my 1st question is can 550B primer mags be used on a 450?
Next when I examine the primer fee mechanism id appear that the little pin that blocks the primer mag tube is too low. I fashioned a make shift primer mag from a primer pickup tube and I had to Dremel down the tip so that the porimer cup could pass under it. The problem seems to be that the primer pin is so low that the primer slips downs to rest on the pin and when the pirmer cup retracts to pickup the next primer, instead of it dropping into the cub, the cup pushes it laterally toward the back of the primer mechnism. And the pimer lodges behind the primer cup meaning that the cup can't get directly under the shell, hence primers don't feed.
My 2nd question is will a real primer mag somehow mitigate this issue?
Any help greatly appreciated.
Ron
I inherited this Dillon 450 setup for 9mm. I've manually loadsed a few 9mm rounds and the basic components seem to work fine execpt priming. It look like I am missing what I believe is called the "primer magazine small". I've got pickup tubes andnt ey work great for picking up those pesky primers, but it's obvious to me that the primer feed tube is to big to funnel small primers ) or large for that matter. It appears that something like a tube within a tube is required which I surmise is the function of the primer magazine.
So my 1st question is can 550B primer mags be used on a 450?
Next when I examine the primer fee mechanism id appear that the little pin that blocks the primer mag tube is too low. I fashioned a make shift primer mag from a primer pickup tube and I had to Dremel down the tip so that the porimer cup could pass under it. The problem seems to be that the primer pin is so low that the primer slips downs to rest on the pin and when the pirmer cup retracts to pickup the next primer, instead of it dropping into the cub, the cup pushes it laterally toward the back of the primer mechnism. And the pimer lodges behind the primer cup meaning that the cup can't get directly under the shell, hence primers don't feed.
My 2nd question is will a real primer mag somehow mitigate this issue?
Any help greatly appreciated.
Ron