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@EuroJoe asked me to take a look at his older 800B so I figured, why not give it a try?
1. (Picture below is of the assembly I did get working) Primers weren't feeding right with a new primer feed assembly. I tried all kinds of combinations of washers, cams, rollers, etc and finally put the original back on and got it working in no time. See the bearing roller instead of the new slotted roller! The bearing works great. Had to put a spacer on the bolt for the bearing to keep it from rubbing against the side of the assembly. My son sized that for me perfectly. The cam cannot get between the bearing and the assembly which is key.
Red arrow points to one washer that was needed to time the slider just right. Other washer below that is needed because the screw is a little long. Took the assembly completely apart and cleaned it to start with. Has not failed yet.
2. Shells weren't crimping correctly.
Turned out the pre-crimp die was missing. It's one of those snap on ones and I happen to have one in my Mec parts bin. Problem 2 solved.
3. Index movement wasn't always complete. Sometimes you had to finish the move by hand to get everything lined up. I lengthened the index pin
a little which worked with an empty loader, but not with shells in it. Best I could do was 15 out of 20 on this test run. The bad 5 are in front (second from left is empty of shot because it ran dry on me).
Then I discovered a nasty little chip on the index pad that is not in the picture from the manual as shown above. That's right at the end of the index movement, so I'm hoping a new pad will fix this problem as well.
Part is on it's way.
It's always something.
1. (Picture below is of the assembly I did get working) Primers weren't feeding right with a new primer feed assembly. I tried all kinds of combinations of washers, cams, rollers, etc and finally put the original back on and got it working in no time. See the bearing roller instead of the new slotted roller! The bearing works great. Had to put a spacer on the bolt for the bearing to keep it from rubbing against the side of the assembly. My son sized that for me perfectly. The cam cannot get between the bearing and the assembly which is key.
Red arrow points to one washer that was needed to time the slider just right. Other washer below that is needed because the screw is a little long. Took the assembly completely apart and cleaned it to start with. Has not failed yet.
2. Shells weren't crimping correctly.
Turned out the pre-crimp die was missing. It's one of those snap on ones and I happen to have one in my Mec parts bin. Problem 2 solved.
3. Index movement wasn't always complete. Sometimes you had to finish the move by hand to get everything lined up. I lengthened the index pin
a little which worked with an empty loader, but not with shells in it. Best I could do was 15 out of 20 on this test run. The bad 5 are in front (second from left is empty of shot because it ran dry on me).
Then I discovered a nasty little chip on the index pad that is not in the picture from the manual as shown above. That's right at the end of the index movement, so I'm hoping a new pad will fix this problem as well.
Part is on it's way.
It's always something.