Gearhead Jim
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My Dillon 650 is one of the very first made.
It came with two primer pickup tubes (small primers) that have a white plastic "nozzle" on the pickup end, and the cotter pin that keeps the primers from running out the other end is drilled right through the aluminum tube.
Recently I bought two more from Dillon. Now the "nozzle" end is yellow instead of white, and the cotter-pin end has a translucent blue piece where the cotter pin goes through the plastic instead of through the aluminum tube. It also looks they would hold slightly more than 100 primers, in case I have a few saved from the "ski jump" catcher on the machine.
The white nozzle on the older tubes seems stiffer, whether by design or from simple age, and it takes more effort to push it down over the primer in the tray. But when I go to load the tube of primers into the magazine on the machine, they seem to flow more smoothly from the old tube into the magazine; the newer tubes seem to have occasional hangups.
I'm wondering if there is any real advantage to one over the other, or perhaps I could replace the white nozzles on the old tubes with the newer yellow ones.
Thoughts?
It came with two primer pickup tubes (small primers) that have a white plastic "nozzle" on the pickup end, and the cotter pin that keeps the primers from running out the other end is drilled right through the aluminum tube.
Recently I bought two more from Dillon. Now the "nozzle" end is yellow instead of white, and the cotter-pin end has a translucent blue piece where the cotter pin goes through the plastic instead of through the aluminum tube. It also looks they would hold slightly more than 100 primers, in case I have a few saved from the "ski jump" catcher on the machine.
The white nozzle on the older tubes seems stiffer, whether by design or from simple age, and it takes more effort to push it down over the primer in the tray. But when I go to load the tube of primers into the magazine on the machine, they seem to flow more smoothly from the old tube into the magazine; the newer tubes seem to have occasional hangups.
I'm wondering if there is any real advantage to one over the other, or perhaps I could replace the white nozzles on the old tubes with the newer yellow ones.
Thoughts?
