GW Staar
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Shaker Collator for Rifle
This is what I made to feed my Homemade Case Feeder for my RCBS Pro2K. I planned to make an electric collator later, Dillon style, but this works pretty darn well, and was well worth the Saturday I spent on the project. (it took longer to make the video and slide show) I can load a dozen tubes of anything in 3 minutes, and that's enough to take care of me for an evening of loading. If not, whats another 3 minutes.
I didn't I buy the Lee because that one doesn't feed bottle neck rifle. Nor does it feed the tiny short 9mm's without upside-down mistakes. I made a single, simple plastic conversion part that loads .223, and .308., and little inserts to make 9mm mistake free.
Made a few videos to demonstrate:
Loads 76 .223 cases in 35 seconds (4 tubes)
Case Orientation is always perfect as long as I load it from an edge.
64 .308 cases in 1 minute....same comment
Speed winner: 160 40S&W cases in 20 seconds.
base down every time
Next picture shows a tube storage rack on the left and the case feeder tube on the right. I just place 3 tubes in the rack and one on the feeder tube...and pull the pin. Next two pictures illustrate.
The next picture shows a closeup of the rack base. I screwed on an alum. bar to the back of the channel to make it drop in my AKRO bin support. Then I epoxy-puttied short pieces of tubing to the base. When I trim I just lift out the base and replace it with an "out" bin for the trimming process.
Lee's collator is prettier but not as versatile. Maybe they will improve it.
Adding another video to demonstrate how I use these:
This is what I made to feed my Homemade Case Feeder for my RCBS Pro2K. I planned to make an electric collator later, Dillon style, but this works pretty darn well, and was well worth the Saturday I spent on the project. (it took longer to make the video and slide show) I can load a dozen tubes of anything in 3 minutes, and that's enough to take care of me for an evening of loading. If not, whats another 3 minutes.
I didn't I buy the Lee because that one doesn't feed bottle neck rifle. Nor does it feed the tiny short 9mm's without upside-down mistakes. I made a single, simple plastic conversion part that loads .223, and .308., and little inserts to make 9mm mistake free.
Made a few videos to demonstrate:
Loads 76 .223 cases in 35 seconds (4 tubes)
Case Orientation is always perfect as long as I load it from an edge.
64 .308 cases in 1 minute....same comment
Speed winner: 160 40S&W cases in 20 seconds.
base down every time
Next picture shows a tube storage rack on the left and the case feeder tube on the right. I just place 3 tubes in the rack and one on the feeder tube...and pull the pin. Next two pictures illustrate.
The next picture shows a closeup of the rack base. I screwed on an alum. bar to the back of the channel to make it drop in my AKRO bin support. Then I epoxy-puttied short pieces of tubing to the base. When I trim I just lift out the base and replace it with an "out" bin for the trimming process.
Lee's collator is prettier but not as versatile. Maybe they will improve it.
Adding another video to demonstrate how I use these:
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