Just finished setting up a used SDB that I bought a few weeks ago. It's set up for 9mm and I like it a lot. It's quite the upgrade from the Lee presses.
The one thing I noticed was that when I'm cranking out rounds, the charged case spills a small amount of powder every time the shell plate rotates. Even when I pull up the lever as softly as possible, the shell plate still rotates snap-ish enough that some powder puffs up & spills out a bit. To be clear, this is when the case is going from station 2 to station 3.
I am using 4.0 grains of Titegroup for 9mm. And so it's not like I'm filling the case to near the top. When I measure the amount of powder left in the case after it rotates & has spilled some powder, I'm usually down to 3.7 or 3.8 grains as opposed to the original 4.0 grains. And so without this being fixed, I'll have to put in 4.2 or 4.3 grains to account for the spilled powder; not to mention the mess that it creates. This doesn't seem right for such a high reputation machine.
And so two questions: has any other SDB owner experienced this? If so, does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix it? I called Dillon & the guy said there is nothing they can do about it & how that amount of spill is not a big deal. I was surprised by how much this guy didn't seem to care enough to think that this was a real problem; maybe he doesn't care but it is a real problem. So much for that supposed awesome Dillon customer service.
Anyways, thanks in advance for all your answers.
The one thing I noticed was that when I'm cranking out rounds, the charged case spills a small amount of powder every time the shell plate rotates. Even when I pull up the lever as softly as possible, the shell plate still rotates snap-ish enough that some powder puffs up & spills out a bit. To be clear, this is when the case is going from station 2 to station 3.
I am using 4.0 grains of Titegroup for 9mm. And so it's not like I'm filling the case to near the top. When I measure the amount of powder left in the case after it rotates & has spilled some powder, I'm usually down to 3.7 or 3.8 grains as opposed to the original 4.0 grains. And so without this being fixed, I'll have to put in 4.2 or 4.3 grains to account for the spilled powder; not to mention the mess that it creates. This doesn't seem right for such a high reputation machine.
And so two questions: has any other SDB owner experienced this? If so, does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix it? I called Dillon & the guy said there is nothing they can do about it & how that amount of spill is not a big deal. I was surprised by how much this guy didn't seem to care enough to think that this was a real problem; maybe he doesn't care but it is a real problem. So much for that supposed awesome Dillon customer service.
Anyways, thanks in advance for all your answers.
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