50 cent bullet feeder?

[CozMoDan]

The title may be a little misleading. However, I have read several posts about bullet feeders. Most of the people including myself are utilizing the hornaday bullet feeder die as the basis for their bullet feeder application. Most all of them including my own simplely use a plastic tube to hold the bullets and feed the die. The problem is loading the tube. The longer the tube the longer it takes to fill.

I have a hornaday LNL-AP with an automatic case loader and I noticed that I can also use the case loader to load the bullets in to the tube. However, it seems that about a third of the bullets are upside down. While I am loading the tube I just watch as the bullets come around and flick them out to the bottom.
Im not much of an engineer but I'm sure there are several of you out there. If you use a hornady case feeder take a look at what I am talking about and see if you can come up with an idea for a automatic "Flickerer" that can be adapted to the case loader. It should not have to be anything fancy, hence the name " 50¢ bullet feeder".
TIA
The Coz

 

[jmorris]

The problem with a third of you bullets being inverted is that you spend three and a half minutes out of every ten jacking with putting them right side up...and that is slower than you can load by hand. This is what I came up with first.







A culling device that catches the inverted bullets. Click on the below photo to see how it works culling 380 from 9mm.

 

[CozMoDan]

JM,
you make the best stuff.
Thanks for the reply and the help,
The Coz