Dillon users: question about changing primer size

[Hoser]

I have a bunch of primer tubes & I fill them up before I start loading, so I don't have to stop mid-stream.......

I used to do that. It became too tiresome. These make life so much easier.

 

[kelbro]

I have one 550 set up for small primers, one 550 set up for large primers. Problem solved.

 

[memilanuk]

I have one 550 set up for small primers, one 550 set up for large primers. Problem solved.

...until you need different loads that take different make/model of small primers

 

[kelbro]

...until you need different loads that take different make/model of small primers

Last I checked, they had more in stock

 

[oley55]

...until you need different loads that take different make/model of small primers

I think I need help with that statement. It may be a 550/650 thing, but I have two RL450s one for large primer and one small primer ammunition. I have never encountered weird sized small primers, regardless of make or purpose (pistol/rifle), that required any changes or adjustments.

 

[memilanuk]

I was (jokingly) referring to having to change out the primers in the machine anyway, because one load uses say, 205Ms while another uses Rem 7.5s. Nothing to do with the size/shape/dimensions.

Shooting blaster ammo, whether it's pistol or rifle, you can get away with saying "I'm going to always use brand X / model Y primers.". Loading precision rifle... sometimes that works. And sometimes, not so much.

So in the context of the ongoing quibble over whether to count out exactly the number of primers needed or to just fill the tubes and dump the extras in a container after, having a dedicated machine for large primer, and another for small primer, doesn't really help much - for me, anyways.

In the context of the original post, yeah, I guess having a whole separate reloading press just for different size primers is an option. I don't personally shoot enough to feel like it's worth it, but I know people who feel like they do. Or they just want to leave it set up for one cartridge/caliber, and do everything else on the other press. Whatever works!

 

[1lnbrdg]

Running a 550C machine, if I load a full tube of 100 primers and only load 50 rounds there are 50 leftover. Then I want to change to large primers there is not a simple way to get those 50 out without dumping them back in a primer tray and reloading them back in a tube. I think you should be able to remove the "inner" tube with the primers in it and just set it aside, but if you lift it out the primers dump inside the steel sleeve.

Call Dillon and get a new end for the primer tube. They should hold the primers in so you can pull it out to empty.