Certainly looks like it would work. For $12, free shipping, sounds like a deal.
While I do get the black crud, I usually just suck it up every few loading sessions with a crevice tool on my vacuum. Any crud that manages to get contaminated by lube on the shaft, and deposited on the press frame gets cleaned up with a Q-tip. Just out of curiosity, how many rounds do you guys typically load on your Dillons in a year? Toprudder, I know you load quite a bit overall. This is only my first year of loading so startup is slow in order to work out all the hitches.
Between my wife and I, we were shooting about 10k rounds per year, mostly 9mm and 45acp, though that rate has slowed down some lately. So I would say I do about 7-8k per year on the Dillon (all of my semi-auto pistol rounds). This is not a lot, really. I try to keep about 500 rounds of 9mm and 45acp on hand, and load up that much when either gets low. For the revolver and rifle rounds, I don't do nearly that much on the LCT and I generally run with the auto-index rod removed.
That makes sense. Since I'm only getting ramped up now, my volume so far is much lower than I expect in the future. Working in the reloading room for an hour or two has been my escape from reality this year. There is a possibility I'll be moving this year to a different state, so my main focus has been on finishing a number of home improvement projects. That has also eaten heavily into my shooting time as well. As it is, I've only been able to load 1900 rounds since December. I suspect I will finish out between 2500 and 3000 rounds for this year. Your crud build up is bound to be a lot higher than mine at this point.
Yeah the dang cotter pin that came on my 550 was binding like every tenth pull of the handle and sent spent primers to the floor. Got frustrating.
Improve a Glock? Well now you just aren't making sense.That's like saying a Glock can be improved??
Well, they are up to Gen 5 now, so.....
I got mine a couple weeks back works good no complaints with it for the price.
