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The adjustable charge bar has never worked for me. I just work up my loads with the Improved PPM and then choose a cavity in a disc slightly undersized and slowly ream it to drop the pre determined...

Nope, lemishine is used to enhance cleaning products. The citric acid in the canning section is pure citric acid.

Get some citric acid from the canning dept in Walmart or any hardware store, put 3 tbsp in a quart jar, fill it with warm water, mix it up good, put the dies in and watch the rust disappear. As light...

I always deprime separately. Two reasons why I do this, since I clean before sizing to prevent running dirty brass through my dies and when cleaning the primer pockets come cleaner, and I can check...

That’s a pretty good idea. It’s not something I have any need for, but I appreciate the thinking.

Add a pretty fair amount of powdered citric acid to water, drop them in and literally watch the rust come off. I’d say 3-4 tablespoons to a quart of water would work for a sizing die. I’d guess it...

The key to the Lee die is to disassemble it and make sure there is absolutely no oil on the stem or collet. Even the slightest bit of oil will cause it to slip no matter how hard you crank on it....

I’ve been decapping all of my brass for over 15 years since first getting the Lee Universal Decapping die and am still on the original pin. At the time I bought it I picked up 3 replacement pins and...

I did forget to mention that I turn all necks and anneal every fourth loading for consistency as well.

I use the Redding body die and the Lee Collet neck die in both .223 and 6.5CM and the worst runout of tested rounds has been .0015 but better than 80% or so are less than .001. You can also get .001...

I used to crimp all my ammo, both rifle and pistol. I no longer crimp bottle neck rifle, whether in my bolt action or AR’s. Ever since I started turning case necks and separate body sizing followed...

I shoot both Hitech coated and Copper plated in my levers all the time. Just keep the MV under 1200fps is the usual threshold to avoid problems. This is in both my .357mag and .41mag Henry BBS’s. IME...

Same for me, except I never did actually use it. Heck, I’m not even sure what even happened to it.

Interesting that it comes with a loaded round ejector already part of it. This gets more interesting all the time.

If this press turns out to be as reliable as the Classic Cast Turret I can see it being quite useful. Six stations would be nice. One to size/decap/prime, two to expand/powder drop, three to powder...

I picked up a used 550 last spring and tore it apart, cleaned, lubed, and reassembled it according to Dillons help videos and couldn’t get the priming system to work right. I wound up purchasing...

Well I got the Lee bullet feeder mounted and working on my 550 then thanks to some tips from YouTube and a little Dremel work. Thanks for the suggestions, it’ll be nice not to have to fumble with my...

Thanks for this, it figures I missed the obvious YouTube search.

I got the notion to try adapt the bullet feeder from my retired Loadmaster to work on my Dillon 550. I thought I had it pretty much figured out but discovered the finger feeder bar won’t clear the...

I keep dedicated shell holders for each task, doesn’t matter which brand you use just use the same one for each task for uniformity. I have found over the years occasionally I’ll have an issue with a...

Pretty cool stuff, a little more involved than I have in mind.

Ah, I missed that. My main interest would be for pistol loading since that’s all I load progressively. By the way, that’s a great design.

What I’d like to see is a bullet feeder die that would seat as well, that would eliminate the need for an extra station on a press. Even something similar to the Lee setup with the feeding fingers...

This sounds to me like your crimping too tight with a roll crimp and it’s cutting through the coating exposing some lead. Coupled with how hot Titegroup burn’s this could be causing leading.

I have two Big Boy Steel rifles, .357 mag and .41 mag. Absolutely love them both, excellent rifles.