jmorris

If you want to play with non firing simulated "guns" maybe try out for the Olympics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_guns Just don't do with a real gun what he does at 1:10 in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znon9VvbAB0

There are lot of ideas that are not worth the cost or effort to patent. I don't share the good ones.

No, I didn't even get a pat on the back for comming up with the idea.

The back up rod on the 1050 is also the expander. They use a different powder funnel that just flares the case (left). the SD, 550 and 650 all use powder funnels that expand and flare (center). So if you ditch the backup rod and use the factory 1050 funnel, you won't have an expander. FWIW this is pistol only, for the most part rifle rounds have the expander built into the decapping pin.

There is a cover on the motor held on with a screw or two. Under it there will be a capacitor, order another one off the internet exactly like it and install it, and you won't have to push start it.

The motor is a 230 volt 3 phase gear motor driven with a VFD. I built 3 of the double drum machines and yes they literally go through tons of brass.

This one is 12.7 gallons and is pretty simple. I built some really big ones too, the place I built them for run 15 gallons of brass per drum.

Your link doesn't send me to any product.

Roll sizing the base, you still have to resize the case once it's out of the CP.

When did the bushings change from plastic to brass?

I have loaded 100 in 9:30 on my SD's before, never ran a 550 that fast. Then again my 550 loads the fewest rounds out of all my Dillon's, I use it to bridge the gap between SS/turret presses and the 650/1050's for rounds that the SD cannot load.

The link to the motor I used is in post 6 here. 278 in/lbs. It was just a motor I had collecting dust but it was powerful enough to work.

I guess I can't figure out how to properly link photos so here is a video of how it works.

There are reasons to own various dies but if being able to simply accurately set and adjust depth from one position to another you can save a lot of money making a "beginners level" tool vs buying a special die. All it does is hold an indicator off a surface, as long as you don't move it it will measure any change in height as you adjust the die. The surface really doesn't even need to be flat, as long as it is stable and doesn't move while you are adjusting. http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv5/qvideo/Concentricity%20Gauge/Seat%20indicator/image_zpscsfv3ywf.jpeg Some dies like Lee for example have a convex shape to the top, it is best to face them off flat or hit the center with a center drill. http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv5/qvideo/Concentricity%20Gauge/Seat%20indicator/image_zpsl7hl07hp.jpeg At that point is really doesn't matter if the surface it rests on is perfectly level, it still works fine. http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv5/qvideo/Concentricity%20Gauge/Seat%20indicator/image_zpsjyujay43.jpeg Some dies like RCBS have a slot for a flat blade in the seating stem. If you take a 1/4-28 nut and thread half the depth onto the stem then thread a 1/4-28 set screw, hex side down, until it bottoms on the stem, you now have a centered surface to indicate from and a "knob" to turn for adjustment. http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv5/qvideo/Concentricity%20Gauge/Seat%20indicator/image_zps98i3trj6.jpeg

Ok, you caught my attention and a watched it. If he had been loading 1 round every 3 seconds he would have been loading at a rate of 1200 per hour, not "doing" 1200/hr. From the video it looks like he has the shell plate full and everything ready to go at 7:09 if I am counting right from that point to 8:04 he loads 10 rounds, only having one malfunction he had to correct at #6. If my math is right that would be at a rate closer to 655 rounds per hour. However, there is a difference between "rate of" and actual production. Because he will spend as much time filling case feed, bullet feed tubes and primer feed as he spent loading. Like the video I posted before you posted that one, 100 rounds in under 4 minutes would be at a rate of 1500/hr but that doesn't count filling things. So maybe he hits 330 rounds an hour...if the worst problem he has is a knocked over bullet.

Couldn't make it to the end of the 11+ minute video, how many did he get loaded in that amount of time?

Shooting with a buddy awhile back I was reviewing data on my old shooting chrony and he wanted to know what "hack" I had done in order to make it give high, low, average, ES, SD and review all the shots. He was kind of upset that is was just a plug and momentary push button away, all the years he has had his. In his defense they didn't always have the information in the manual, if he would have read it anyway. Lots of other stuff it will do too but that's all I use.

They may be one of the least desirable progressives but if you have the patience to figure out what makes them tick they can keep up with any manual press (at least until they need further adjustment). Might even be quicker than most, especially if you don't have a tube filler for the others.

And hang out in non Dillon forums, in threads about non Dillon presses. If I couldn't get the priming system to work on a Loadmaster, it might be better to hang out in the Dillon equipment forum though. For me any progressive that won't prime be it a Lee, Hornady, RCBS or Dillon wouldn't be one I would keep if I couldn't fix it. That is the entire point of a progressive machine, to remove all of the individual manual processes and have them all happen concurrently.

Even less so on the Loadmaster, you set the depth, in much the same way you set the depth on a 1050. If it seats a primer, it's at the same depth as the rest.

You would have to use it as the manufacturer intended it to be used.

Nothing wrong with doing it however you like. My first thought was that I would load 100 rounds and be done before you finished depriming your first 100 cases. I would be finished with another 100 before you could hand prime them and another 100 when you loaded. So at best 3 times longer for the same amount of ammunition. By the way on the "priming issues do to the other dies" part, the Loadmaster and 1050 are the only two presses that have any cases in any die at the time of priming. If you are having issues with the Loadmaster priming, you might try and add a die to station #2 to center the case in the shell plate. The chain on Lee powder measures is a safety device. It makes it so the operator must lower the ram, indexing the press (unless you have removed the indexing rod) before the measure will reset. This reduces the likelihood the user could short stroke the press and double charge. Put a spring return on the measure and you can go back and forth in the middle of a stroke and charge multiple times. Before you ask me "who in the hell would do that?" Ask Lee how many did before they changed the linkage. I suppose you could ask Dillon too as they have also addressed the same problem. Again, if that's what you prefer to do and how you want to spend your time, nothing wrong with that. Make sure everyone watching TV with you is wearing safety glasses.

Yeah but it's the best dam bullet puller I have ever seen.

Yes, the taking "everything" and making it more complex would made me think it was a student project, that and using a 650. The cabinet mount opens up a lot more possibilities for the autodrive and could introduce a tolerance in the loaded ammo in an of itself. Like a rotary drive but not in the confines of the case iron press frame rather the fabrication. Not that it cannot be made strong enough but another area of consideration.

Yeah, it's too edited with too many close ups of inconsequential things to tell what they are doing. However, at 1:26 they have a view of the entire setup and in that still, you see the primer collator to the right by itself with what looks like a similar spring connection as the MBF uses. That idea may have been a fail, not making it into the video, although they could have left it connected as short as the clips are, even if it was non functional. No telling...