A Learning exerience
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 3:44 am
I changed over a tool head last night on my Dillon RL 550 B press to load a different caliber. Nothing new or unusual there. Checking calibrations and adjusting the powder drop, I managed to spill just a little powder. No big deal, that's happened before. So I needed to clean that up before I started, and just grabbed the shop vac and sucked up the powder. There was only a little bit spilled.
On the shell plate, at each station there is a little brass pin that keeps the case in the carrier plate. They work well.
My shop vac ate one of them..didn't even chew it, just swallowed it. Rats!!
Fortunately, it was a new bag in the vac, and just a small incision in it, and I found the pin.
So, I learned that my usual proceedure of using canned air pressure to clean crumbs off the press, THEN vacuum the floor is a better proceedure.
Learning experience.
On the shell plate, at each station there is a little brass pin that keeps the case in the carrier plate. They work well.
My shop vac ate one of them..didn't even chew it, just swallowed it. Rats!!
Fortunately, it was a new bag in the vac, and just a small incision in it, and I found the pin.
So, I learned that my usual proceedure of using canned air pressure to clean crumbs off the press, THEN vacuum the floor is a better proceedure.
Learning experience.
