Dillon 500 vibratory brass tumbler

[Perro Del Diablo]

After nearly 30 years I found a design flaw. Running some brass this morning started off with motor wouldn't turn, found cord blocked the weight. Fixed it ran load of 38s. Just Getting prepped with next batch mixing new media and polish and POP FLASH. Quickly unplugged let cool for while then started my disection sure enough cord was burned from being cut by motor weight. Ok so do I try fix or just squeeze a rock to get some blood and buy the newer 700. Just in case cut out bad section  stripped wires and tied them together making sure no way the will touch. Now the test to see if I will have sell my first born I plugged it in and started right back up. So unplugged and now gonna repair cord drill hole in side of base and reroute cord so it will not tangle in motor again. Had never had issues before but realized cord comes out of motor and is loose underneath so when it was slack tangled and cut by motor weight. Whew alot cheaper at Christmas time than buying new one. I am blessed it's been faithful all these years and fix is simple splice of 3 wires.