Automated brass sorter by weight

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I haven’t had much time to play with this, built the electronics part, did the programming and threw together the mechanical parts months ago.

It’s still a long way from being a finished product but it’s also one of those projects that can get lost do to “life getting in the way” if I don’t see some sort of progress.

The idea is to begin the sort by a 10 grain differential with those dropping into one of 10 bins, then take all from a single bin and change the resolution to 1 grain differential, then take all from a single bin and change to .1 grain resolution.

So in the end you can have brass sorted to the tenth of a grain without having to touch a single case.

Proof of concept and hopefully enough inspiration to finish it out when it cools off outside.

 
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You could be a benchrester's best friend.....extremely useful to such, looking to speed up a very slow hobby, which benchrest shooting is! As usual.....awesome invention!
 
Your inventive mind is amazing, I must say. Thanks for sharing really cool!
 
Love it JM - I knew you'd been working with loadcells lately. It looks like, with a resolution of .1 grain, this could easily be developed to weight sort bullets. Just chuck in a box of 500 and spit out the few high/low ones, batching bullets is a slow process but regular practice in long range benchrest and F-Class.

I've also been working with a loadcell based shooting idea, just please we are barking up different trees.
 
Have you done any character recognition that read head stamps and sorts them?

That’s been done already. Google “sortinator 1000”.
 
Sorting by headstamp would be much more important as the first step and then sorting those by weight so you can find those with thinner cases due to stretching and trimming would be next. IMVHO ofc.
I've put the thread on my watch list though as I find any automation fascinating. Good Work.
 
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