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I've got a lot of ammo to load this weekend, and while checking a charge weight I dropped one of the small brass locator pins that holds the casing in snug against the shell plate.   (You can see what they look  like here:  https://www.dillonprecision.com/rl-550b-caliber-conversion-kit_8_2_23598.html)  

 

It took a bad bounce, and disappeared somewhere into the basement clutter.   I can't find the dang thing anywhere, and it will take a week to get a new one from Dillon.    Holding the casings in by hand with each turn of the shell plate got old fast.

 

But, I make hand-turned wooden pens as another hobby, so I chucked a hardwood offcut from a pen blank into my lathe, and in 15 minutes turned an identical pin, giving it the same rock-hard superglue finish I use on the pens.   It's working out great--I'm back in business.

 

And if it wasn't so hard to post photos to this forum, I'd let you see how great a cocobolo locator pin looks on a Dillon 550B.

[Rob0115 1,105]

While that's really creative and interesting I'd really like to see a couple photos of your pens too. Any chance?