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stay away from lube dies, they just make a mess typically no matter who makes them.
I think the party was referring to "a die that required lube" rather than a "Die that provided lube".
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stay away from lube dies, they just make a mess typically no matter who makes them.
Yea, those stupid pushers for the 650 case feeders crack like Marrion Berry on a saturday night.
If you ever want their tone to change, call up and ask them for a replacement ram for your RL1050. Suddenly they want you to whip out that CC. Same thing with decapping pins, and they want a pretty penny for them. Big reason why I recommend RCBS dies.
Last year I had one of the lugs that connects the RL1050 ram to the crank mechanism break on my personal machine, and they wanted $90 for a replacement. It strikes me if the ram breaks under normal usage there's either a flaw in your design, or you have some issues with QC. I read later this is a major reason they changed the design when they went to the XL1050.
As for a lug breaking it would depend on how many of these they see breaking as to whether it's a QC or design problem.
This is why they changed the mechanism on the XL1050, so it's essentially acknowledged as a design issue. Another problem the 1050's have is the return spring for the advancing mechanism tends to snap after about 10-20k rounds, yea that may sound like a lot, but it's not.
The change over takes around 30 mins if i have to change primer size and case collator size.
I have 300 bucks in my bullet drop system with 2 caliber bullet dies, quite a bit less than a Kiss. Adding calibers costs the price of a die-25 bucks.