MoreIsLess
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For some reason my Dillon 550b has started intermittently not dropping powder charges, Any ideas what would be causing this or how to correct/prevent this. I am using Bullseye powder.
You wrap the bar with a dryer sheet?Watch that powder bar when it cycles. Make sure the linkage is properly adjusted and is not binding. Bullseye meters great in a Dillon measure. Have you emptied and cleaned the measure lately. Powder could be bridging. I wrap a dryer sheet around mine to keep static cling under control, works great.
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The meter bar goes all the way to the right but does not come all the way back to the leftWhen the powder measure does not drop a charge, does the slide metering bar cycle?
The meter bar goes all the way to the right but does not come all the way back to the left
Dillon provided thin shims to reduce this clearance. I have four Dillons and had this problem on only one press.
Improper assembly/adjustment.Can someone explain to me how if the safety rod is installed and adjusted correctly it is even possible for the bar not to return ?
Can someone explain to me how if the safety rod is installed and adjusted correctly it is even possible for the bar not to return ? The older measure, before the safety rod used springs to return the bar.
With the failsafe rod, the only way it won't return if adjusted correctly is if the ram is not lowered all the way.
I think that was my point, although I can't see the powder bar binding because you could not raise the handle far enough to seat a primer then. In the future when this question comes up, as it has in the past, the answer is simple, make sure it is adjusted correctly and you fully cycle the ram.Improper assembly/adjustment.
Powder bar binding.
And the old style it could happen as it is spring return, I have one although it has now been upgraded, free by Dillon.
Could, it had no failsafe rod, just used a spring for the return.Couldn't?