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unfy:
--- Quote from: NENick on November 23, 2012, 11:14:23 AM ---Might need a new plan if there isn't a dropper thingy for rifle rounds.
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Canonical bullet point prolly makes them bind up in the tube or at entrance/exits of the tube. Also dunno about the "righting" cutout shape in side of drum near entrance of tube.
Not to hijack the thread but..
A spinning feeder might not work ? Might call for a magazine like thing with a conveyor belt kind of set up ? Something where the person throws them in the magazine aligned the correct direction and it feeds them into the tube that way ?
====\ / shaped kinda thing. the hole for the tube can prolly be offset and not center ... or perhaps more of a \ | shape or something so that the base/tail falls in first ?
PS -
Sorry if i've not been clear, just woke up and not looking forward to picking up some plating supplies (noteably oven mitt for steel-wool-mitt idea, and looking for smaller bolts/nuts).
00BUCK:
--- Quote from: NENick on November 23, 2012, 11:14:23 AM ---Someone one mentioned that it is only for pistol rounds. Are they referring the the actual hopper, or the actual device that drops the bullet on the casing? The hopper part is easy enough to build. Might need a new plan if there isn't a dropper thingy for rifle rounds.
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It's actually both - the hopper and the die. Once they make a hopper that works for rifle rounds you will be able to buy different dies, just like the pistol setup now. The rifle bullet feeder has been in "Coming Soon" status for a couple years now.
jonm:
--- Quote from: jthhapkido on November 23, 2012, 11:23:16 AM ---:) I need it faster than that.
My Dillon 550 got me about 400 per hour (or so) without a casefeeder or a bullet feeder. My wife got tired of seeing me down in the reloading room hour after hour, so one day I got home and found a Dillon Super 1050 on the floor.
Now I can crank out 300 rounds in 15 minutes on average. (Faster if I really need to.) It has a case feeder, but not a bullet feeder. (I might be upgrading to a bullet feeder in the near future, and later maybe adding the motor to it all...)
I don't have any experience with Lee presses, but it surprises me that one with a case feeder and a bullet feeder is so slow. And that rate would just take up too much of my time, I know for certain. Different people need different amounts of pistol ammo, no argument there----but just 300 an hour would not work for me.
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its because it takes forever to load up the tubes for the case and bullet feeder. you can't just drop in a ton into a hopper and start going to work.
also, your wife is awesome.
JTH:
--- Quote from: jonm on November 23, 2012, 06:02:25 PM ---its because it takes forever to load up the tubes for the case and bullet feeder. you can't just drop in a ton into a hopper and start going to work.
also, your wife is awesome.
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Ah! I was wondering where the time was lost. So you have to load bullet/casing tubes like primer tubes? Yuck. I think loading primer tubes is one of my least favorite things to do. (Which tells you that my life isn't that bad, if loading tubes is one of the "bad things.")
I'm thinking of spending the (stupidly large) amount of money on Dillon's primer tube filler just to not have to do it anymore. These days, I fill 10 tubes at a time and then go load them. Doesn't really take THAT long, but it is annoying.
And yes, my wife is awesome. :)
jonm:
there are plans online to use a lee hand primer as a primer tube filler. it's cheap and gets awesome reviews. there is even someone selling them complete if you didn't want to diy it.
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