Post 10 and 11 here shows what I use now and the jigs I made to make the feed plates.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...eeder-for-star
The first one I built after I learned that the MA Systems collator (yellow one posted above) cost over $1000. Also that they noted that their collator was not 100% stating inverted rates of short/fat bullets like a 45 acp could be as high as 1:100.
http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o...al/feeder4.jpg
Never could get it to work 100% either so I added a cull device to drop inverted bullets out before they made it to the machine. The ogive being smaller would not trigger the whisker switch and fall into the feed tube. A base up bullet would hit the switch, opening up a trap door and dropping the inverted bullet down the aluminum tube before it could enter the machine. Worked every time all the time.
http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o...al/feeder2.jpg
No videos of it in operation in its intended use but here is one of it sorting 380 from 9mm, so you can see how it works.
http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o.../th_9mm380.jpg