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How to fix crushed or flipped primers on Dillon 1050

Sideways, upside down primers, crushed primers and shuttle hang up problems on the Dillon 1050 are very frustrating. It took a bunch of trial and error and then one day a super simple fix occurred to me. While watching the primer shuttle move, I noticed that when the toolhead came down the locating pin would cause the shuttle to jiggle a bit. Sometimes allot. The first effort I did was to add a spring to the actuation lever. That helped some but not completely. I took the shell plate off and very carefully watched how the motion was happening. The problem became obvious after a few minutes. Well, more like many hours cause I’m not the bright. The shuttle wasn’t stopping centered under the locating pin and when the pin came down it caused the shuttle to jostle, sometimes very violently. The fix, add an adjusting screw to cause the shuttle to stop in perfect alignment under the locating pin. Problem solved. We now have very few bad primers coming off of the press. Here’s a video showing the installation. I wish to add a note about priming military brass. This fix will not stop problems associated with crimped primer military brass. After the primer is removed from crimped primer brass the sharp edge must be removed. You can tell if that is your problem because the primer is extruding on one side where it has caught on the sharp edge of the primer pocket. Many people seem to have luck with simply swagging the pocket. I have not found that to be 100% reliable on rifle brass as there are too many variations in the base thickness to set the hold down. Your experience may be different, good for you but I have found the best way is to de-bur using two turns with a Weldon 2287 countersink. Yeah other counter sinks can work and I've used them too but 50 years of experience using the Weldon countersinks tells me it is the go too. Some day, if I decide to spend the time, I'll come up with a tool to work in on of the stations.