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I've been awful busy and my new in the box 550B is still not out of the box and set up.

I just looked online to price some accessories and what do I find? The 550C.

What? When did this happen?
 
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Don't keep up. What's the difference?

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Seems they added grease fittings on the arms,takes needle valve fitting on your grease
gun.
Looks like the engineering department are creating fixes for problems I never encountered.
 
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HA! Rem Oil baby!!

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Originally posted by 45 Cal:
Seems they added grease fittings on the arms,takes needle valve fitting on your grease
gun.
Looks like the engineering department are creating fixes for problems I never encountered.


Probably only high volume loaders need grease. Wink



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Seems they added grease fittings on the arms,takes needle valve fitting on your grease
gun.
Looks like the engineering department are creating fixes for problems I never encountered.


Probably only high volume loaders need grease. Wink


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Solution to non-existent problem. Had my 550 since '84. Loaded about 200K rounds. Just a little oil squirted in the gaps from time to time - and a little on the ram.


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Well i wouldnt say non existent, you do need to lube the press working points. I'm not selling my 20yr old one but grease fittings are a good idea.


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It has a different frame now but so does the 650. They changed the pivots too but the C doesn't do anything the B can't, except the C will be less likely to be confused with the BL.
 
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This is the new 550 frame.



And the new 650 frame.

 
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FWIW they had already added a lube zerk to the 550 B on the lower link pivot before the frame change.

 
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I wish that my 650 did have grease zerks, but not enough to sell my 650 to buy one with them.
 
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Take apart, drill some holes, screw fittings in!


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I love zerks - let you keep things slicked up - but I have been running my 550B for ~20 years and every few years I put a little light oil between the moving parts of the ram, and clean the ram & put either 30wt oil or ATF on it. The ram gets dirty, and dirt will eventually score the ram & bore.


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The ram gets dirty, and dirt will eventually score the ram & bore.


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