BigMoneyGrip Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 Like most, I've had an issue with the shell plate jerking into position. I've tried several fixes including the thrust bearing. Here is the best solution that I've found. A thin piece of leather, 1/16" thick that I cut on a laser. It works great! My prototype was felt and it worked good, but not this good. I removed the thrust bearing and everything is back factory with the added leather washer. Barney purple was all I had but I'm rolling with it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m700 Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 My best solution before I got a bullet feeder was to place my finger on plate as it reached bottom of stroke. My hand was there ready with a bullet anyway. The detent spring reduction did help me too. Now that I'm using bullet feeder I'm just dealing it's not that bad for me 9 and 45 are both less than half full and everything else is bottle neckSent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddc Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 How does the washer affect the shell plate jerk? I guess it's not obvious to me. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 5 minutes ago, ddc said: How does the washer affect the shell plate jerk? I guess it's not obvious to me. Thanks! My guess would be it creates friction between the ejector wire and the plate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMoneyGrip Posted September 25, 2020 Author Share Posted September 25, 2020 41 minutes ago, ddc said: How does the washer affect the shell plate jerk? I guess it's not obvious to me. Thanks! Yeah, it's just a point of friction and completely smooths out the shellplate indexing. I tried cutting the detent spring, changing the detent ball to nylon, adding the thrust bearing, adding grease to the thrust bearing... It all helped, but this seems to have fixed it. Granted, I've only loaded 1600 like this, but so far we're grand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunsnjeeps Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 Is the hole through the middle the same size as the screw? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMoneyGrip Posted September 27, 2020 Author Share Posted September 27, 2020 5 hours ago, Gunsnjeeps said: Is the hole through the middle the same size as the screw? It's the OD of the head of the shoulder bolt. The first one I made was .750 ID and was a little big. My final size was 1.5 OD and .7 ID. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowshooze Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Well, the big thing is adjusting what I call the rotocam actuator. It is that bearing block below the stage, the gold one. A knock-off of mine... but it is slotted. Runs on the ring-indexer. You have to play with the adjustment so that it turns your shell plate to exact position. When that ball pops up under the shell plate, nothing is supposed to move at all. If the ball moves the shell-plate, you are out of time. All that ball is supposed to do is hold the plate in position... not index it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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