3D printed reloading tools?

[troy fairweather]

What size bed is needed to print the bullet feeders, I'd like to get the Lee app when I can find one in stock and a feeder may be nice with it.

I like the idea of making the cartridge boxes, I can never get the proper size for some reason lol.

 

[Wreck-n-Crew]

What size bed is needed to print the bullet feeders, I'd like to get the Lee app when I can find one in stock and a feeder may be nice with it.

I like the idea of making the cartridge boxes, I can never get the proper size for some reason lol.

A 200mm x 200 mm is plenty big enough for a bullet feeder.

The brass feeders are a bit of a different beast. Usualy they are sectioned out and bolted together. Good thing if you ask me since my 3000x300mm CoreXY won't fit the case feeder or do so reliably.

 

[Wreck-n-Crew]

Wow these are great! were did you get the electronics for the bullet feed?

Ebay and Amazon.

The display I had to model on cad and custom make.

 

[GW Staar]

A 200mm x 200 mm is plenty big enough for a bullet feeder.

The brass feeders are a bit of a different beast. Usually they are sectioned out and bolted together. Good thing if you ask me since my 3000x300mm CoreXY won't fit the case feeder or do so reliably.

Sectioned prints not necessary for the TylerR base. Look again at the last video above that I posted.....223 CASE feeder. My printer is a Creality CR10 V2, with a 300x300x400mm plate, but it can be printed just fine on the 200x200 if you do away with the skirt.....Many have done it.

The Ammo Mike design is suitable for most bullet feeders, but The TylerR improved design is big enough for 30-06 cases. Here's a video of mine......(again can be printed on 200X200.)

Not 30-06 because I don't shoot those, but this is .308.....


STL print files are organized and available free....even with a user manual, from the dropbox link at the bottom of TylerR's many posts on the Thread I linked to early in my posts above. So you don't even need cad software or ability, until you want to print your own designs. That's where I have an advantage as I've used Autocad for 30 years. But there are good 3d cad choices that are free, but there is a learning curve for any of them. Most of you guys have the advantage of youth....at 71 I don't learn new cad programs without a lot of hair pulling and anguish.....but it shouldn't be a deterrent to most of you.

TinkerCad is good only as a simple cad, training wheels. Fusion is good and can be free for home use. OpenScad super for software coders, and really stands out if you need to be able to apply endless variables. Ammo Mike & TylerR used that for plated design that can be endlessly variable. DesignSpark Mechanic is good, especially for those who don't have to unlearn traditional cad, like me.

There are several good slicers....most use Cura, I prefer IdeaMaker, but I was born a divergent.

BTW, Tyler has a new even bigger plate designed for those with 350X350 beds......same diameter as Dillon's case feeder.

 

[jmorris]

Caliper and driver holders and a couple different versions of primer catcher to tube for the RCBS RC.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

It has long been said in machining that the only milling machine fully capable of replicating itself is the engine lathe. Every pully, gear, shaft and even the bed can be made on the same machine. Efficiency takes a back seat but, the point is that it CAN be done - and only an engine lathe can do it. From the earliest days of industry to the current day, this has been true.

I sometimes wonder if someone will develop a 3D printer capable of making printed circuit boards, processor chips and integrated circuits. Will the 3D printer break the glass ceiling of full replication from machine to a new machine?

 

[Bang!]

I bought a 3d printer specifically to print bullet/brass feeders for my presses. Tried the ammo Mike project first but finding the files were hit and miss. Under the Special Projects tab on the castboolits forum there is a thorough and professional diy project. Complete project with all the bells and whistles. Start by reading the “manual” they have with the project. The folks over there are even doing a great cs for their free project.

 

[Mark_Mark]

It has long been said in machining that the only milling machine fully capable of replicating itself is the engine lathe. Every pully, gear, gear, shaft and even the bed can be made on the same machine. Efficiency takes a back seat but, the point is that it CAN be done - and only an engine lathe can do it. From the earliest days of industry to the current day, this has been true.

I sometimes wonder if someone will develop a 3D printer capable of making printed circuit boards, processor chips and integrated circuits. Will the 3D printer break the glass ceiling of full replication from machine to a new machine?

I worked in a Semiconductor fab lab... Talk about Machines and chemistry and scopes

 

[Dunross]

A stripper clip guide to allow the use of SKS stripper clips to load 7.62x39 AR mags the way one uses a "stripper spoon" to load 5.56mm mags from stripper clips.

Well, that *is* reloading, isn't it?

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

A stripper clip guide to allow the use of SKS stripper clips to load 7.62x39 AR mags the way one uses a "stripper spoon" to load 5.56mm mags from stripper clips.

Well, that *is* reloading, isn't it?

For something like that I think using the 3D printer to make an expendable mold might be more effective. Make the part, impress it in the casting material (clay, sand, silicon beads, etc.), pour the molten material (zamak, melted soda cans... how about beer can stripper clips?) and make another. The printed master part will last for many thousands of castings, ditto for the casting media...

 

[jmorris]

For something like that I think using the 3D printer to make an expendable mold might be more effective.

Ransom rest grip inserts would be a great thing to 3d print! Lots easier than the way I have done it.

 

[Dunross]

For something like that I think using the 3D printer to make an expendable mold might be more effective. Make the part, impress it in the casting material (clay, sand, silicon beads, etc.), pour the molten material (zamak, melted soda cans... how about beer can stripper clips?) and make another. The printed master part will last for many thousands of castings, ditto for the casting media...

That would work, but it seems to me a printer could make the thing directly from some tough high-density plastic.

 

[troy fairweather]

That would work, but it seems to me a printer could make the thing directly from some tough high-density plastic.

Definitely possible from what I've read the cheaper printers need to be upgraded to use the tuff stuff. Would be easy to add 5-10% to use for a mold tho.