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  • #16
    stilly
    I need a LIFE!!
    • Jul 2009
    • 10685

    Originally posted by Fiveohmike
    So I hadnt touched my reloading supplies in a bout a year.

    I have a Dillon 650XL press. I set it up for 40S&W, and got everything prepped. I was working with the small primers when midway through my 10month old screamed pretty loudly. I stopped what I was doing, went inside to check on her and the wife. Everything was ok, so I went back to the garage and continued.

    Loaded the 100 primers into the tube, put the low primer buzzer in and started with the first case.

    When I pressed the first primer in something caught and the primer went off, setting off all 100 primers in the tube.

    I am fine luckily, but I cannot hear out of my right ear very well. Luckily no one called the cops or anything.

    My machine is ok, it did break one of the brass push ears off. It destroyed my low primer buzzer tube and machine.

    What happened was I forgot to put the primer tube inside the main tube so I can only assume a primer came out cockeye and got smashed when I went to press it in.

    Please for the love of god do not get distracted. I have been reloading for over 6 years, pressed over 10k rounds, and never, not once messed up. I have been very meticulous about it.

    Just a friendly PSA for someone who is waiting on his hearing to return.
    I am sorry sir but you are banned from EVER saying that again...

    Rules are rules...


    Glad you are okay though. Did they shoot up into the ceiling too?
    7 Billion people on the planet. They aint ALL gonna astronauts. Some will get hit by trains...

    Need GOOD SS pins to clean your brass? Try the new and improved model...



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    • #17
      Fiveohmike
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2009
      • 1047

      Originally posted by jessdigs
      Here you go, found the one I was taking about. They replaced everything for free, including the whole primer tube setup.



      By the way
      Here you go. Not as bad as the video because...well I forgot to use the inner primer magazine so only the outer tube took the explosion. But the plastic parts inside? Not so much. You can still see primers embedded in it:







      -- I love the mythological significance given to Dum Dum Bullets. As if they're little tactical nukes, stacked up in "Assault Clips" ready to be "sprayfired" "from the hip" by pistol grip equipped "bullet hoses" instead of early variations of the softpoint bullets people have been using to take game with (and use for self-defense) for the last century.

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      • #18
        Fiveohmike
        Senior Member
        • Dec 2009
        • 1047

        Here is about how many exploded:

        -- I love the mythological significance given to Dum Dum Bullets. As if they're little tactical nukes, stacked up in "Assault Clips" ready to be "sprayfired" "from the hip" by pistol grip equipped "bullet hoses" instead of early variations of the softpoint bullets people have been using to take game with (and use for self-defense) for the last century.

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        • #19
          stilly
          I need a LIFE!!
          • Jul 2009
          • 10685

          OH THE CARNAGE!
          7 Billion people on the planet. They aint ALL gonna astronauts. Some will get hit by trains...

          Need GOOD SS pins to clean your brass? Try the new and improved model...



          And remember- 99.9% of the lawyers ruin it for the other .1%...

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          • #20
            Fiveohmike
            Senior Member
            • Dec 2009
            • 1047

            Originally posted by stilly
            I am sorry sir but you are banned from EVER saying that again...

            Rules are rules...


            Glad you are okay though. Did they shoot up into the ceiling too?
            No, the cieling is allright, I had the metal leg screwed on to the top of the primer magazine so everything was contained.


            Still cant hear that well out of my right ear. I mean jI can hear, just riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing. Someone pick up the farkin phone.
            -- I love the mythological significance given to Dum Dum Bullets. As if they're little tactical nukes, stacked up in "Assault Clips" ready to be "sprayfired" "from the hip" by pistol grip equipped "bullet hoses" instead of early variations of the softpoint bullets people have been using to take game with (and use for self-defense) for the last century.

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            • #21
              jessdigs
              Member
              • Dec 2011
              • 472

              Wow, that looks like an event. Again, glad you are okay

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              • #22
                Fiveohmike
                Senior Member
                • Dec 2009
                • 1047

                OH SH*T!

                So there is a missing plastic piece about 1 1/2" long from the top of the buzzer.... I coiuldn't find it. its embedded in the ceiling. I am charging a flashlight and ill take a pick. its in about 1/2 way
                -- I love the mythological significance given to Dum Dum Bullets. As if they're little tactical nukes, stacked up in "Assault Clips" ready to be "sprayfired" "from the hip" by pistol grip equipped "bullet hoses" instead of early variations of the softpoint bullets people have been using to take game with (and use for self-defense) for the last century.

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                • #23
                  Baja_Traveler
                  Member
                  • Jan 2009
                  • 343

                  Same thing happened to me and my 650xl 6-7 years ago. Was not a case of forgetting the inner tube. As you can see in the pic below, the inner tube contained the majority of the primers, but there are still a few imbedded in the drywall in the ceiling above my loading bench. My plastic primer buzzer rod looked even worse than yours, but the outer tube contained the detonation and there was minimal damage to the press. Had to disassemble the press and pound out the inner primer carrier. Dillon replaced everything.

                  Last edited by Baja_Traveler; 02-02-2017, 6:22 PM.
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                  • #24
                    ar15robert
                    Senior Member
                    • Sep 2002
                    • 2490

                    Always have fear of that.

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                    • #25
                      Fiveohmike
                      Senior Member
                      • Dec 2009
                      • 1047

                      How long did it take your all hearing to get somewhat normal? lol
                      -- I love the mythological significance given to Dum Dum Bullets. As if they're little tactical nukes, stacked up in "Assault Clips" ready to be "sprayfired" "from the hip" by pistol grip equipped "bullet hoses" instead of early variations of the softpoint bullets people have been using to take game with (and use for self-defense) for the last century.

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                      • #26
                        tanks
                        Veteran Member
                        • Dec 2014
                        • 4038

                        Originally posted by Fiveohmike
                        ...
                        What happened was I forgot to put the primer tube inside the main tube so I can only assume a primer came out cockeye and got smashed when I went to press it in....
                        You had the primer system disassembled?
                        "... when a man has shot an elephant his life is full"- John Alfred Jordan
                        "A set of ivory tusks speaks of a life well lived." - Unknown

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                        • #27
                          Fiveohmike
                          Senior Member
                          • Dec 2009
                          • 1047

                          Originally posted by tanks
                          You had the primer system disassembled?
                          I was switching from rifle to pistol so I had to change the tube
                          -- I love the mythological significance given to Dum Dum Bullets. As if they're little tactical nukes, stacked up in "Assault Clips" ready to be "sprayfired" "from the hip" by pistol grip equipped "bullet hoses" instead of early variations of the softpoint bullets people have been using to take game with (and use for self-defense) for the last century.

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                          • #28
                            ojisan
                            Agent 86
                            CGN Contributor
                            • Apr 2008
                            • 11763

                            Originally posted by Fiveohmike
                            Here is about how many exploded:

                            Yes, it was a BIG BANG!
                            Good to hear you are OK.

                            Milk the hearing loss for all it's worth.
                            You can now safely ignore people as long as they are on your right side.

                            Originally posted by Citadelgrad87
                            I don't really care, I just like to argue.

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                            • #29
                              tonyjr
                              Senior Member
                              • Nov 2015
                              • 1448

                              Don't feel bad . I had primers go off , bend , flip over - I got to point where I did not trust the primer feeding seating system .
                              Now , I deprime and reprime by hand .
                              Glad you are O K .
                              life member - CRPA and NRA
                              All ways listen - after you can say I new that

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                              • #30
                                Dragginpanda
                                Senior Member
                                • Jul 2014
                                • 521

                                Glad you're ok, thanks for sharing

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