To Dillon or not to Dillon

[packetloss]

Easy $10 solution. Which ever press you buy, order the Spent Primer Chute option from UniqueTek. These take the ejected primers plus all their smut, and route it all to an empty, sealed container under the bench. Large containers like 5 qt motor oil jugs, or 8 lb powder jugs then hold 9 to 12 months worth of reloading bi-product without you having to touch, breathe or worry about it.

http://uniquetek.com/

That is a good solution. They seem to be out of stock and it seems to be $29 for the 750 version. I 3d printed mine and got the tubing 3/8 ID, 1/2 OD tube from Home Depot.
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2312035

 

[TackticalZacktical]

Exactly. For loading lots of pistol rounds, you really don't want to hand deprime or have to deprime as a separate step.

I will say that I have had some brass where either the primers corroded or something got on them and a significant amount were not de-priming with one hit. There were also some CBC brass mixed in and I ended up with some loaded rounds with the old primer still on them so at that point I just resized and deprimed the rest of those cases and reamed the pockets on any CBC brass.

Now that that is done, I will just be tumbling the brass with steel pins before sizing/de-priming and then running them through as is. As others have noted, you can pretty much do about 1000 rounds per hour on a 750 with a case feeder. Bullet feeder helps but doesn't save anywhere near as much time as the case feeder.

Thank you for that. Wet tumbling with primers and then depriming/loading all at the same time to let the 750 do its thing would certainly be ideal. Do you run into any drawbacks from primer dirt and grit when depriming on the press during loading? Also, what is your drying process? Thank you for the help.

 

[TackticalZacktical]

Go figure...!!? DAA just posted a video for their version of a bowl type collator for the Mini Case Feeder system "The Loader Bowl" for $20 USD.

Whaddya know! I’ll definitely be looking into that. Loading the tubes up with the bowl isn’t that that time consuming, and it gives another opportunity to inspect the cases. So glad you shared this with me! Thanks!

 

[TackticalZacktical]

I guess it kinda depends on what you mean by "bulk 9mm" but if it means what I think it means...

Please bypass the 550 and get either the 750 or a used 650.

PS: I put together a home made version of that 3d collator bowl using a frisbee, a PVC fitting from HomeDepot and some 36" plastic tubes I bought at a plastics store. It actually works very well. I get maybe one upside down case per 500 or thereabouts.

Edited to add: I went right by the fact that you decided on a 750.
I think you will be happy with that decision.
Good luck with your reloading journey.

Nice work! As Bosn Ski just shared, DAA now has a $20 bowl for losing cases that come with an adaptor plate for .223. Thanks for the support!

 

[packetloss]

Thank you for that. Wet tumbling with primers and then depriming/loading all at the same time to let the 750 do its thing would certainly be ideal. Do you run into any drawbacks from primer dirt and grit when depriming on the press during loading? Also, what is your drying process? Thank you for the help.

Once you have reasonably decent brass (i.e. not muddy outdoor old brass), 1 run with steel pins, dawn and citric acid cleans them to the point that they do not dirty up your press. When depriming them, there will be a small amount of debris as popping out primers will never be 100% clean. With that being said, if you do get the 3d printed primer tube solution, debris should be minimal or non-existant.

I just finished running through 1000 such rounds (indoor range, 1 run with steel pins) and you end up with way more powder on the press than you do debris from depriming 1000 cases.

As for drying, I will either put them out in the sun for a few hours to dry, or I pop them in my convection oven at 170 degrees and it's usually dry in about an hour. You could just load them at that point, but typically I let them sit another day just to make sure any water deep in the primers is dry.

 

[Texas10mm]

Thank you for that. Wet tumbling with primers and then depriming/loading all at the same time to let the 750 do its thing would certainly be ideal. Do you run into any drawbacks from primer dirt and grit when depriming on the press during loading? Also, what is your drying process? Thank you for the help.

Drawback is a problem with progressive presses. It only seems to happen with small primers in my experience. The Dillon dies have a spring loaded decapping pin that eliminates about 99% of the problem. I get maybe 1-2 in a 700 round run that the primer is drawn back. Since I can feel at the primer seating station when this happens it's just a very minor annoyance.

Primer drawback is the reason I bought my first set of Dillon dies. I was getting a lot of it when using Hornady or RCBS dies. I tried everything. I finally broke down and bought a set of 9mm Dillon dies. After the first time using them I understood why people love them so much.