aka108
Member
For all those years my Dillon Square Deal progressive loader and I have had out little problems. Mainly that no matter how many fine adjustments and replacement parts were use the primer system would flip about 5 out of every 100 and they would get inserted upside down. You did not feel this happen nor could you see it happen until the final product was looked at. Now the ones that flipped half way you could feel in press but it also slowed the loading process down. Got to be such a PIA that I stopped using it 5 or 6 years ago even though I have all the supplies to keep it going. Bought ready made ammo for the 9's and 45's. Today I removed the entire primer feeding mechanism from the machine and removed the pin at the priming and powder station. Now I run the cases thru the sizing/decapping station and remove them from the priming station and hand prime with the Lee hand held primer. The slip them back into the charging station and finish running thru the bullet seating and crimping station. The Dillon powder dispenser is about as good as you can get as are the dies. The priming mechanism has never been good to me. Anyhow, the loading process takes a few minutes longer now but no more wasted primes, bullets, cases and that's worth a lot these days.