Originally Posted by
jmorris
The knurled retainer for the tube doesn’t need to be tight. If you crank down on it, it will distort the plastic tip and cause malfunctions.
I keep mine so loose the low primer alarm is the only thing preventing it from backing out further. Not even two fingers tight, rather loose. Mine are well over 30 years old now and are quite reliable, wish it didn’t take me as long as it did to run them loose but Internet reloading forums didn’t exist back then.
Once you mess up a tip, swap it out, they are not known for curing themselves.