LnL With a case feeder

[Jeff H]

Can anyone with a case feeder please measure the height of the case feeder as it sits on the press?

My ceiling is a bit low and I'm trying to figure out if I have room since my LnL is on an Inline Ultra mount. It sits pretty high already.

 

[forty_caliber]

Roughly 49" from the bench.



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[Jeff H]

Thank you sir.

 

[RealGun]

Mine is 47, noting that the Ultramount I have is 10.

 

[Jeff H]

Home now and measured 49" from the mounting plate to the ceiling (suspended ceiling), so looks like it will fit, but I'll have to pop a ceiling tile to fill the hopper. NOT ideal. I'll have to think about this before I figure out if $400+ for the collator and all the plates is worth it to get 1-200 more RPH considering I have to pop the ceiling tile out every little while to top off the collator.

 

[forty_caliber]

What if you made a wood box from 1/4" ply and inverted it where the ceiling tile goes so that it sets on the rails instead. That would give you some more clearance without having to worry about moving the tile around.

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[dave333]

My LnL measures 37.5 inches from bench to top of case feeder, don’t use a mount of any kind. I’m assuming you stand while you load hence the mount. If you switched to the 4” low mount you should have plenty of room, but may need to sit on a stool to load.

I’ve got ceiling issues also as my reloading room is above the garage so I’ve got sloped ceilings to deal with.

 

[RealGun]

You will need a lot more than an inch or two clearance, if ever needing to change from rifle to pistol plates or to remove the hopper or to vacuum out debris. The alternative in those events would be to remove the mast and anything connected to it. I believe that would be a two man job with a top heavy, loosened mast.

 

[RealGun]

My LnL measures 37.5 inches from bench to top of case feeder, don’t use a mount of any kind. I’m assuming you stand while you load hence the mount. If you switched to the 4” low mount you should have plenty of room, but may need to sit on a stool to load.

I’ve got ceiling issues also as my reloading room is above the garage so I’ve got sloped ceilings to deal with.

The low mount will require that the linkage be suspended over the edge of the bench, blocking any drawer beneath. I understand that any of the mounts can be ordered to be flush with the bench edge, but that is standard on the Junior at 7 1/2" instead of 10. On the 10" sitting over the bench top, the linkage just clears. You can see that in the picture offered earlier.

 

[dave333]

The low mount will require that the linkage be suspended over the edge of the bench, blocking any drawer beneath. I understand that any of the mounts can be ordered to be flush with the bench edge, but that is standard on the Junior at 7 1/2" instead of 10. On the 10" sitting over the bench top, the linkage just clears. You can see that in the picture offered earlier.

Good point about the linkage. My bench has no drawers so I didn’t think about that.

I believe the 4” low mount can be ordered with the quick disconnect base plate so he could have his case feeder, and drawers, and be able to remove the whole thing for access. Probably not a good plan if you have only one drawer or like to keep often used items in it though.

Either way I would definitely recommend finding a way to use the case feeder, I like my LnL much better with than without it.

 

[KansasSasquatch]

I don't have a case feeder for my LNL but looking at the pictures others have posted it seems like it'd be fairly easy to shorten it 4 to 8 inches if you're handy. It would give you less cases lined up in the tube, and you might have to slow down slightly in order to not outrun the feeder. And it would probably cause the feeder to run more often, but probably for shorter periods of time.

Or maybe you could shorten the bench?

 

[sbwaters]

If you had to slow down your LnL at 4 inches shorter, you are either running very long rifle brass or you are a heck of a lot faster at it than I am. ;-)

 

[tightgroup tiger]

You can't shorten the feeder mast on the LNL-AP case feeder. If you shorten the bottom of the mast the tube holder above the funnel that moves side to side will have no where to be remounted due to the mast curving above it.
If you cut the top off you also have nothing but a curve left to remount the collator.
I would also slide a ceiling tile out above it and either leave it out of there or build a nice looking box for above it to sit in the track.
You will need at least 4" above the collator to be able to lift it off to take it down and to fill it.

 

[tightgroup tiger]

You can see they don't give you much to work with for height adjustment for shortening the top or bottom either one. I suppose you could make a an extension piece that would bolt to the original hole that holds the tube holder and to be able to raise it up but it would have to have a offset bent into it to re-align the tube to the collator.

 

[KansasSasquatch]

1. Shorten it right below that bracket (that holds the clear tube) and drill new holes to mount the bracket.

2. Bend the square tube more to give it more offset, then cut out part of the diagonal section to get the horizontal dimension (from square tube to clear tube) back to factory specs. This method may actually work better if you cut out the offset completely, at the very bottom of the offset, and fab a new section of square tube. It would probably be necessary because of how close the case feeder is to the inside curve of the upper bend. Come to think of it, I'd just make a whole new piece. And I'd probably add a couple small gussets on the bends, to stiffen it up since I'd be changing the angles

3. Combine both ideas and make it even shorter.

Like I said, it all depends on how handy you are. But I work with metal for a living, so modifying this would be easy for me. If I had a case feeder to snag a couple measurements from I could easily make these, and probably fairly cheap too. I'm actually surprised a company like Inline Fabrication doesn't make them already.