DIY automation ideas.

[Miranda]

I some times spend a little while in the this part of the year to
consider what I would like to do or explore in the next year.

 

I think a primer tube filler would be a fun project.
or a gooder bullet feeder may be satisfying

I will look at what is available
and why I think somehow I can do better than what is available.

 

it is hard to beat a lee bullet feeder in terms of price.
but there has to be a better way.

 

the alternate die style?

I do not like the loss of the powder check AND
the lack of seeing powder in the case...

I saw a photo somewhere (I can't find now)
of a disk up near the mouth of the seating die

Turning bullets into the die mouth, sorta like a turret press top.
I have been thinking that idea has some merit
I doubt it would be cheaper...

 

the primer filler is even more all over the place
a flip tray and poke the primers is pretty cheap.

so I thought  a x-y crane and poke the primers could be fun.
not cheap or fast however.  I also wondered if
the laser sighting optics would pop the primer compound.

 

I am not sure I like the vibrator sound or the clic-click
sounds of the current options.

 

some cogitation fodder...

miranda

[Intheshaw1]

I bought a 3d printer to play around with primer fillers and eventually make case and bullet feeders.

 

I can make a primer filler similar to the vibra prime for 20 bucks and have spare parts to make another if I wanted. I'm tossing around the idea of printing 2 and making some sort of stand for them.

 

I already picked up 12 feet of aluminum tubing to make primer tubes and designed and printed the blue filler ends and made a cap for the other end.

[Miranda]

the 3d printer will get you a case and bullet collator.

the control switch and drop tubes can use some attention.

what kind of printer did you get?

 

Have bought a few dillon primer tubes so I have spares there.

you like the vibra- prime?

the videos I have seen sound loud to me.

There are ways to add quiet to such items.

I guess I'd want cheaper or better.  ... 'course that means figuring out how.

 

maybe just make one and see how it sounds is a solution.

 

in reading back, I can see I was not clear that the bullet feeder in the powder check station

is a problem for me. 

 

a 3d printer may well be a way to build an idea or two.

 

miranda

 

 

 

Edited December 27, 2020 by Miranda
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