I tried the heat thing on a broken down dillon measure and it melted after about 20 seconds! Make sure not to just hold the flame in the same spot! Move it around from side to side and from different directions. Sure glad I didn’t try it on my new one first. About 10 second on each side and never settling the flame on any one spot!
Sorry, looks great but I have had my 550 since 1996 and never had a problem with powder accuracy. I now have 2 and they do not have any issues with powder accuracy.
I hear it with a torch for about 3 minutes then take a pliers and gently wiggle it back and forth. If it is not moving when you wiggle it you are not hot enough. Once hot enough it is fairly easy to remove.
Not sure that I need to do this, My drop is 0.1 grain accurate even with fine powders such as H110. Not saying this is not cool but is it really something 99% of us will need?
the key word you used was 'fine' powder. dillons work great with spherical powders (the fine powder you reference), but they are shit with extruded powders. when you get into higher grain charges the powder drop can start to fluctuate pretty bad, even with spherical powders. this is because the powder bar system grabs the powder in a way that is done by volume and not weight. my 308 powder drop can throw within 0.2 grains, or vary as high as 0.7 grains. this turns into a problem when you are loading full power loads such as i am.
You are obviously right in a way, but if you're loading for 32 S&W Long, e.g. plus minus 0.1 makes more than 10% deviation... For rifles, however, it's obviously irrelevant.
Glenn D I just ordered a new powder measure. I will do a side by side comparison with a modified and unmodified powder measure. I will use my Sartorius Analytical balance scale and measure out 50 rounds each. Give me about a week and I will let you know the results. Thanks, John
