Dillon Dies

I talked to sales person at dillon yesterday.  Dillon dies are on back order for at least 8 months due to material shortage of the carbide die.

Jim

I recently received a model airplane that was on backorder for 14 months.

It's the "new normal".

The only place I have been able to get Dillon Dies is Ebay.

Bill

I have one guy here, who has been waiting for almost two years for a set of 9mm dies from Dillon.

Why is it only Dillon that is having problems getting carbide? Products are available if made in-house.
Redding, RCBS, Hornady, and Lee don't seem to have any issues.
Does Dillon only assemble their products?

Dillon has much of their products made for them.

I received a notice a couple days ago that a package shipped from Dillon. I believe it's a carbide 10mm sizing die I ordered over a year ago. Unfortunately their site will not let me reset my password to confirm what actually shipped. I gave up on whatever is coming a long time ago.

Received my 10mm carbide sizing die today 2 years and 4 days from date of order

Wes Lorenz wrote:Why is it only Dillon that is having problems getting carbide? Products are available if made in-house.
Redding, RCBS, Hornady, and Lee don't seem to have any issues.
Does Dillon only assemble their products?

That’s something I don’t understand either, other than them saying something about the quality of the carbide they used not being available.  I do like their radiused/recessed sizing die.   I don’t know of anyone with that feature or at least not in the price range.  I have been using the FW Arms primer popper die then an RCBS carbide die with the depriming assembly removed on a Dillon 550 or 650.  So far that’s worked okay.

On the flip slide,,,,Tuesday I broke the crank on one of my 550s, called them wednesday, friday the part was on my doorstep.
No questions asked besides p/n I was looking for.