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| Dances With Tornados |
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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| Alea iacta est |
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| Knows too little about too much  |
Don't keep up. What's the difference? RMD TL Davis: “The Second Amendment is special, not because it protects guns, but because its violation signals a government with the intention to oppress its people…” Remember: After the first one, the rest are free. | |||
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| Avoiding slam fires  |
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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| Knows too little about too much |
HA! Rem Oil baby!! Thanks, RMD TL Davis: “The Second Amendment is special, not because it protects guns, but because its violation signals a government with the intention to oppress its people…” Remember: After the first one, the rest are free. | |||
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Probably only high volume loaders need grease.  Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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| Avoiding slam fires |
Ha,I put a drop of slick 50 on my pens on the 550 about twenty years back,still working  | |||
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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. "Son, always take your paper to the woods" - my dad NRA Endowment Life Member 3 Gun, PCC, IDPA, Bullseye Shooter | |||
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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. IF YOU AREN'T HANDLOADING, YOU AREN'T SHOOTING ENOUGH! NRA Instruc: Basic Pistol & Met Reloading | |||
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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! "Son, always take your paper to the woods" - my dad NRA Endowment Life Member 3 Gun, PCC, IDPA, Bullseye Shooter | |||
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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. Maj, USAF, Ret. Life Member: DAV, MOAA, SCV, TSRA, and VFW, NRA Benefactor | |||
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| Avoiding slam fires |
I don't reload in a sand storm the last forty years with a pickup truck bed loaded with a vast assortment House is pretty clean for a widower. | |||
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