New bullet feeder ordered

Tomme boy

Tomme boy

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Ordered a new bullet feeder for my APP and ABLP presses today. I ordered from Karl Bibb. He makes a version of the MBF. His has two drop tubes, one for nose down for the APP and one nose up for the ABLP. This will help out the hands and fingers from cramping up.
 
Ian

Ian

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Automation for beat-up, worn-out hands is a godsend. One reason I run so many progressives and just leave them set up for one caliber each all the time, and use the Lee turret heads for everything else. I'm considering getting a Dillon electric case trimmer just because every time I do 500 cases by hand it feels like it takes months off the life of my hands.
 
Tomme boy

Tomme boy

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If you are thinking a trimmer for rifle cartridges, check out the WCT I posted about in another thread I started. It works amazing even for the bad hands I have.

I think it has to do with how I hold the cases. If you worked with your hands all of your life you know how bad it hurts to try to screw a small nut or screw onto something with just your fingers. It shoots all the way up to my elbow sometimes. With the 1/2" drill I use for this it really spins the cutter and there is hardly any pressure. But it does float around on trim lengths. I got it for 556 blasting ammo. For the bolt action it is trimmed on my RCBS trimmer with a 3 way cutter.

Anyway can't wait. He said it will go out Friday. And he can print in most colors if you want something special.
 
Tomme boy

Tomme boy

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Got the feeder Monday. Took a little bit to get it set up right so it drops the bullets in the right orientation. The way this feeder works is it has two drop tubes. One is nose up and the other is nose down. You use whichever you want and put the other tube into something to catch the other bullts.

I first had to get it set up on the Lee APP to size bullets. I sized a little over 500 bullets. Once everything was adjusted right it went fast!

Now tonight I set it up to reload. It works much better to feed the bullets nose up. Out of the 300 I loaded it had 2 bullets that fed the bullets nose down.

I am really liking this!
 
Tomme boy

Tomme boy

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Karl Bibb's reloading on facebook.

You dont want to see my loading bench. It is a catch all for everything. A total mess
 
fiver

fiver

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it's probably marked private.
I'm kind of interested too,,, if I could hook a reliable feeder up to one of the stars... OMG, that would save me some serious time.
 
Brad

Brad

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It doesn’t look that efficient in that video. Dumping in a small handful at a time kinda defeats the purpose, doesn’t it?
 
fiver

fiver

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especially when half are right back in the other bucket.
I could deal with that part of it [that's how it works ] but I generally change in a new lube stick every 10 minutes or so.
I don't think it would keep up even with someone else feeding it.
 
Brad

Brad

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No flipper is a deal breaker. I don’t want to handle bullets multiple times to get them sized. Having 1/2 handles at least twice just doesn’t make sense.

I can feed my Star faster than that and save money too.
 
fiver

fiver

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I have feeders for the stars I was just trying to avoid filling the tubes.
I can start out with 20 full tubes and catch someone trying to fill them pretty quick.
I was envisioning modifying a couple of short tubes to this machine.
putting the feeder up against the ceiling, pouring in a couple hundred bullets and pumping them through the machine.

maybe, just maybe I could build a stand of some sort and use this to fill the tubes.
it could dump 'half' in one tube and half in another tube and I could cotter pin both ends of the tubes and just flip one of them over.
the shut off switch would probably have to be changed out to a manual one to make it work.
I will have to think on it some.
 
Brad

Brad

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Wouldn’t it just be easier to have someone, like a kid, fill tubes for you?
Maybe borrow one?
 
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