Dillon powder bar touching shell plate?

[Quinc]

I am setting up to reload 45acp on my 550 with bullseye and without a casing the powder bar touches the shell plate and moves the charge bar. It doesn't drop powder but is this normal? If I back it out enough to where the shell plate doesn't cause it to move it will not drop a load at all. normally I wouldn't care but after running it up and down a few times without a casing, I placed a casing in there and it added enough grains to top my scale my out. wtf?!

[Bill Steele]

I am setting up to reload 45acp on my 550 with bullseye and without a casing the powder bar touches the shell plate and moves the charge bar. It doesn't drop powder but is this normal? If I back it out enough to where the shell plate doesn't cause it to move it will not drop a load at all. normally I wouldn't care but after running it up and down a few times without a casing, I placed a casing in there and it added enough grains to top my scale my out. wtf?!

With 45ACP it is normal for the shellplate to contact the nose of the powder drop when no case is in the shellplate.

If the drop is dropping more powder than you want, adjust the powder bar bolt counter clockwise until the proper amount of powder is dropped.

[Pete1979]

I've found that the Dillon demands consistent handle manipulation and timing. Its touchy on powder drops even with bullseye and 231. If you pause in between cycles long enough, the powder settles a little and drops over. I cycle the handle without loading up the first station then dump the first charge back in the hopper after a long pause or break in loading. If I'm doing bottleneck cartridges, I just leave the locator pin out of station 2 and weigh charges but that's just me.