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Originally Posted by Joeaksa
Jack,
You said this would be done in 6 weeks over 2 months ago.
When will the "testing" be completed? Hope that this is not going to be a "never ending social experiment."
Joe
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ITs not never ending, I am retired, I never get a break, its retired, retired, retired, every day. Time is irrelevant to getting to the bottom of this machine. Like I said before, If I knew what I know now, I would have bought something else. Since there seems to be a lot of baseless propaganda that the 650 is the "best" I think an honest analysis needs to be posted for anyone considering this machine. I have never been good at estimating time to completion, I am an engineer and scientist, not a bean counter.
The 1050 appears to deserve its reputation, all of the internet chatter seems to support that, so for now I will accept it.
The same seems to go for the 550, a far more popular model than the 650 because of cost. It also does not have negative press on the internet, like the 650 does.
So far the negative press on the 650 seems to be accurate, at least as far as my experience goes. Maybe I will determine the cause of the "problem" or maybe not, time will tell. My motive is to give everyone considering this machine the best possible analysis of its performance. As an aside, I might discover something that Dillon can use to improve the performance of it which will benefit everyone.
As to precision reloading, I have found that a progressive reloader has certain drawbacks. Unless you have new brass, you need to interrupt the process after sizing to remove lubricant, to clean the brass, and trim the brass to length. Thats what I am doing. As to new brass, I have used Nosler, which is pre sized, pre trimmed, pre cleaned, consequently those steps need to be skipped. The progressive press seems to make sense if your just plinking a lot of lead and don;'t care about extreme accuracy.
As to the knucklehead that keeps commenting about the lose shell plate and powder ( of which only few individual pieces are present) you do not know what you are talking about. I have clearly shown the problem WITHOUT the shell plate in place. Read the fking post will you! By the way, a tight shell plate is a problem, not a lose one. A problem with this machine is if you do not tighten the set screw on the shell plate adjustment, it gradually gets to tight to turn, it does not get lose. A consequence of to tight is misalignment of everything. I have shown that the problem seems to be in the primer feed, which has not relation to the shell plate in this case. You have no clue do you? As to powder, any reloader that cannot function without some spilled powder (almost impossible to prevent due to vibrations) isn't worth a nickel. There was no spilled powder that I found in the photo I presented that would or should have interfered with proper function. a few grains are IMPOSSIBLE to avoid. To prove this point, just visit any gun store that displays working re loaders and look at how much spilled powder there is on them.