Blue68f100
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I had used a leather pad stuck to the bottom of the factory feet for nearly a decade. The pad would come loose requiring me to glue it back on.
Since I now have a mill I decided to make something more permeate. Factory design vs my new one.
I machined this for it to work with a case as small as 380/223 up to my 45 acp. May work with a larger caliber but this is the largest I normally load on it.
This show the flat section that now contacts the brass fully at the base so the brass does not tilt.
And one last photo showing the brass feed pickup. This is a smaller inside diameter down tube than supplied. With the smaller ID the brass lands straight and does tilt.
I loaded 600 rounds of 45acp last Saturday and did not have a single hick-up, brass feed or otherwise. During my testing I found if you had a kink in the brass retainer spring, it caused the brass to raise up, causing a bind into the shell plate. So as long as a kink does not get in the works it runs 100%.
Since I now have a mill I decided to make something more permeate. Factory design vs my new one.
I machined this for it to work with a case as small as 380/223 up to my 45 acp. May work with a larger caliber but this is the largest I normally load on it.
This show the flat section that now contacts the brass fully at the base so the brass does not tilt.
And one last photo showing the brass feed pickup. This is a smaller inside diameter down tube than supplied. With the smaller ID the brass lands straight and does tilt.
I loaded 600 rounds of 45acp last Saturday and did not have a single hick-up, brass feed or otherwise. During my testing I found if you had a kink in the brass retainer spring, it caused the brass to raise up, causing a bind into the shell plate. So as long as a kink does not get in the works it runs 100%.
