XL650 Crashing Primers

By hugo121175
Published on: 2008-06-21 at 10:43 AM

Replies: 0

I've been reloading .223 Lake City once fired brass. This is how I prep cases:

1: Tumble cases for three hours in CV500 case vibrator with treated media

2: Inspect cases

3: Trim, and debur all cases

3: Deprime and resize with single stage press

4: Swage primer pocket with Dillon Super Swage 600

5: Clean and ream primer pocket with Lyman hand primer pocket ream

6: Inspect cases

7: Tumble case for one half hour in CV500 case vibrator to freshen the finish.

8: Lube cases with Dillon case lube

9: Load into the auto case feeder, and run through XL650

The problem is about every ten or so case. As I as pushing the handle foward I hear that cruch. I remove the case and sure enough the primer has been crushed. I then place the case into a container with with rem oil to soak. Is this normal, or is there something more that I need to do to these cases?

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Posted by: dillon

Posted on: 2008-06-24 at 11:07:21 AM

It sounds as if the primer pocket has not been sufficiently swaged on the particular cases with crushed primers. It should not be necessary to ream the primer pocket after swaging.

Posted by: hugo121175

Posted on: 2008-06-24 at 05:12:36 PM

I set up the swage with the case base as close to the plate as possible. Some of the cases will not fit into the swage. They have to be put to the side. Then later I have to go back, readjust the swage, and then swage the others. Is there something else that I can do?

Posted by: dillon

Posted on: 2008-06-26 at 08:47:45 AM

It helps if you separate the brass by headstamp, and adjust the swager for each lot of brass. Otherwise, set the swager to over-swage, and develop a feel for the proper amount of swage.

Posted by: mcoop8

Posted on: 2008-09-22 at 06:05:13 PM

I had this problem once. As it turned out a spent primer was sitting on top of the piece that the primer seating plunger pushes against when you push the handle forward. This had the primer trying to seat +/- 1/8" before the shell plate was centered over it. Thus a crushed primer. I also just fixed a SDB that had a dirty shell plate that kept the the detent ball from centering the plate. it was doing the same thing. flipping or crushing primers

Posted by: Mull

Posted on: 2008-09-24 at 04:07:30 PM

Make sure that shellplate set screw is snug (Page 36 of owners manual). When loose, this seems to make the shellplate not stop at the precise position to center the primer.

Posted by: schematics

Posted on: 2008-12-12 at 08:25:43 AM

I just purchased an XL650 and after setting it up I started loading .223 LC brass. I was crushing a few primers also but found that the Primer Station Locator Tab was not holding the case all the way in to the Shellplate, thus not a centered case above the primer plunger. The bottom of the Tab was catching slightly on Shellplate but not always. When it did I noticed that when I pushed forward on the handle I could feel a lot of resistance and thus a crushed primer. I pryed up on the bottom of the tab just enough to clear the Shellplate and the next few hundred have went through without a hitch.

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