Wishing I'd never bought this POS RCBS Progressive
- Thread starter JSimpson65
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I read through 44 of his responses and did not find anything trixter about his other post. He could have had help, from Google. He could have ignored the warning: "Are you sure you want to restart this thread?".
Then there is that thing about missing something we never had until it is no longer available. The OP had one and does not miss it.
F. Guffey
You can't go wrong with a Dillon....Had issues wit my 4 year old Square Deal.
I only shoot pistol anyhow. Sent it back for repair....They told me repairs are taking 5 weeks.
10 days later Fed Ex dropped off a brand new press....No charge.
You cant beat their customer service!
I only shoot pistol anyhow. Sent it back for repair....They told me repairs are taking 5 weeks.
10 days later Fed Ex dropped off a brand new press....No charge.
You cant beat their customer service!
Could be, he could be having so much fun with that press he is so excited he can not talk about it, then there is that chance he never had one.
I doubt he is still on hold. The first remedy would have been to call RCBS, after calling RCBS without solving the problem he would be entitled to complain.
F. Guffey
reynolds357
New member
I am betting if O.P. has not gotten the press figured out in five years, that he wont get it figured out.
The O.P. should have read Peter Eick's post #29 and quit belly aching and learn the system. Shucks Pete's probably close to a half a million rounds on his by now........mine is still 6 years old brand new compared to his.....but I never had the O.P's issues. I admit I did read the instructions real careful like first.....and I don't force anything........but if I were to, I feel comfortable in the fact that I won't blow up a tube full of primers......or ever break the press linkage. Mangled strips? Never done that yet....but it won't destroy your hearing or put a hole in your ceiling.
.....strip replacement isn't quite the same aggravation as having to ask Dillon to replace exploded priming system parts.....no down time either.
If a strip hangs up, I know I raised a primer when I shouldn't have, and so I take a second and push it back down with an allen wrench that fits in the hole and motor on.
The wire ejector has always worked just fine for me.....you do have to angle it right and tighten the allen screw.
So what really happened to this guy who never came back to report?....He went to TheHighRoad a couple of months later and posted a new bench build thread, with the following picture.....
No more excuses.....one can't possibly fault that press..........even when it breaks or blows up...why it's a Dillon! Picture on the right was posted last week by another Dillon user on AR15.com....Dillon 650 system. Next post was a guy congratulating him on Dillon's great customer service to replace the mangled metal parts.
.....strip replacement isn't quite the same aggravation as having to ask Dillon to replace exploded priming system parts.....no down time either.If a strip hangs up, I know I raised a primer when I shouldn't have, and so I take a second and push it back down with an allen wrench that fits in the hole and motor on.
The wire ejector has always worked just fine for me.....you do have to angle it right and tighten the allen screw.
So what really happened to this guy who never came back to report?....He went to TheHighRoad a couple of months later and posted a new bench build thread, with the following picture.....
No more excuses.....one can't possibly fault that press..........even when it breaks or blows up...why it's a Dillon! Picture on the right was posted last week by another Dillon user on AR15.com....Dillon 650 system. Next post was a guy congratulating him on Dillon's great customer service to replace the mangled metal parts.
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Carriertxv
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What the heck caused that??
Force at speed.
Likely from a 650, they feed from a disk that keeps the primers right next to one another. Set one off and it can cause a chain reaction. I have crushed primers just about every way that it could be done over the last 30 years and never set one off but I don't force anything.
Likely from a 650, they feed from a disk that keeps the primers right next to one another. Set one off and it can cause a chain reaction. I have crushed primers just about every way that it could be done over the last 30 years and never set one off but I don't force anything.
Exactly! Never force a primer on a Dillon or any tube-fed primer system...no...any primer system. At least with a strip-fed system, user error can only light up 1 or 2 primers.
Make no mistake....user error is almost always to blame. I've collected pictures of blown up tubes on 550's and 1050's as well, but I have to agree with jmorris....the 650 with it's disk is the press "most likely" to light up 100 primers at once.
That's why, factoring in my imperfectness as a reloader, my final personal pick for a progressive was a safe fast Pro 2000. No buyer remorse on that decision.....none. Love it.
Make no mistake....user error is almost always to blame. I've collected pictures of blown up tubes on 550's and 1050's as well, but I have to agree with jmorris....the 650 with it's disk is the press "most likely" to light up 100 primers at once.
That's why, factoring in my imperfectness as a reloader, my final personal pick for a progressive was a safe fast Pro 2000. No buyer remorse on that decision.....none. Love it.
schmellba99
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I don't see how you could detonate primers on the Hornady system personally - and if you did, you would not touch off the tube because the seating station is well away from the tube itself.
I suppose you could potentially have issues if the shuttle got a primer sideways - but having experienced that personally a couple of times, you can't put enough force on the press to bend or crush the primer with the shuttle system as the operating spring will give before anything else does (yep, I know).
I suppose you could potentially have issues if the shuttle got a primer sideways - but having experienced that personally a couple of times, you can't put enough force on the press to bend or crush the primer with the shuttle system as the operating spring will give before anything else does (yep, I know).
I couldn't either for years I heard about people lighting them off and with the internet I viewed photos of them.
There are some folks that could ruin an anvil with a rubber mallet.
I have squished a few over the last 30 years even seated a few sideways, just never lit one off in a press or even smashing them in a bench vise. That is whyI feel that speed of the force is an important factor.
Hit vs push.
Yeah, jmorris, that's the great mystery. I've done some primers in on my Rock Chucker over the years and never lit one either. One thing I haven't tried is a hammer on an anvil........probably won't try it either.....heck I never liked to sit on balloons at birthday parties as a kid either.....squeamish I guess. But the evidence is out there .... my picture book is getting pretty big. and it contains blown tubes and hands from users of most brands of presses. Even Hornady. 
I just noticed yesterday that Midway USA is shipping RCBS's new Pro Chucker 5's and Pro Chucker 7's finally. Now the circle is complete. Back to boom tubes for Green too. I guess they decided that the Dillon model works often enough without accidents to fade the memory and prevent customers from flinching too bad. Reloaders are the bravest customers anyway.....or they wouldn't reload.
Now we will see if the carnage continues on green progressives.
As for hit vs. push......I'm sure that's a factor....but some of these accidents have happened to guys supposedly just mounting a new loaded tube to a press! In that case no hit....not even much of a push.
Static detonation has been poohpoohed as bogus, but how else to you explain those experiences....skin chemistry?
But the evidence is out there .... my picture book is getting pretty big. and it contains blown tubes and hands from users of most brands of presses. Even Hornady. I just noticed yesterday that Midway USA is shipping RCBS's new Pro Chucker 5's and Pro Chucker 7's finally. Now the circle is complete. Back to boom tubes for Green too. I guess they decided that the Dillon model works often enough without accidents to fade the memory and prevent customers from flinching too bad. Reloaders are the bravest customers anyway.....or they wouldn't reload.
Now we will see if the carnage continues on green progressives.
As for hit vs. push......I'm sure that's a factor....but some of these accidents have happened to guys supposedly just mounting a new loaded tube to a press! In that case no hit....not even much of a push.
Static detonation has been poohpoohed as bogus, but how else to you explain those experiences....skin chemistry?
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