OK, I picked up a Loadmaster last year to get into reloading. The bench I was using became fairly unstable due to its design, and I started having problems with flipped primers, and stuff just getting loose.
Needless to say I've been doing my reloading in .45, .357, .38, 9mm, and .223 on a Lee Reloader ever since. It works great with the Lyman DPS1200, but is slowwwwww....
/Rant on!
Last weekend I built a bench that would outlast Hiroshima. Setup the loadmaster on it, and I'm not impressed. In the last two days I've had the shell plate become misaligned with the auto indexer at least 30 times. Had a primer go off in the primer once (after it blew up, and melted I removed the primer). Had the dies decide to move all around on me after they've been tightened up twice. The powder measure seems to do whatever it wants including loosening up, and where the heck did they come up with that POS chain to to keep it in check?!?!?
All of this has been experienced thru 300 rounds of 9mm reloading. After about 30 rounds I removed the deprime/resize die and the primer so I could use my previously primed cases as it would be a bit more reliable.
All the videos on the webshow a very smooth operating press. That's not what I have, but yet I've tried to make it as smooth as possible.
/Rant off
With all that said. I'm looking at the Dillon's now. I'd like to try the 550 with several conversion kits so I can reload everything I have including rifle. But.... I'm not totally satisfied the Dillon is as smooth as I see it in the videos. The kit I'm looking at is from brianenos dot com and is called the CR - Top Notch. Any one had experience with it? Is it as smooth as it looks? How are the conversion kits?
Thanks
Needless to say I've been doing my reloading in .45, .357, .38, 9mm, and .223 on a Lee Reloader ever since. It works great with the Lyman DPS1200, but is slowwwwww....
/Rant on!
Last weekend I built a bench that would outlast Hiroshima. Setup the loadmaster on it, and I'm not impressed. In the last two days I've had the shell plate become misaligned with the auto indexer at least 30 times. Had a primer go off in the primer once (after it blew up, and melted I removed the primer). Had the dies decide to move all around on me after they've been tightened up twice. The powder measure seems to do whatever it wants including loosening up, and where the heck did they come up with that POS chain to to keep it in check?!?!?
All of this has been experienced thru 300 rounds of 9mm reloading. After about 30 rounds I removed the deprime/resize die and the primer so I could use my previously primed cases as it would be a bit more reliable.
All the videos on the webshow a very smooth operating press. That's not what I have, but yet I've tried to make it as smooth as possible.
/Rant off
With all that said. I'm looking at the Dillon's now. I'd like to try the 550 with several conversion kits so I can reload everything I have including rifle. But.... I'm not totally satisfied the Dillon is as smooth as I see it in the videos. The kit I'm looking at is from brianenos dot com and is called the CR - Top Notch. Any one had experience with it? Is it as smooth as it looks? How are the conversion kits?
Thanks