Home made auto-sizer.

[Gremlin460]

Nice work!, I too use box section for the slider but its cut down the centre to guide the slide. In the machine I am building the cast is delivered nose down, and a open ended slide would allow round nosed cast to just roll out, or drop sideways.

I can see a use for your design in a auto-deprimer !!!! Arrgh no... no more idea's please!!!!
but then again.. maybe later on.... I could.. NO, stop it, I am walking away LA LA LA LA not listening to the internal voices!!

[Gremlin460]

Update, what the work bench looks like ATM....

[Redwoode]

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[Gremlin460]

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Fixed

[Gremlin460]

Monday will see the first AS/2 roll out... I aim for one per day, even with my regular work that should be do-able. 2 more improvements were made. All in all I hope you will be happy with these.
I have tested the prototype up to S&W 50 cal and it works fine.

Colour choices are:-
Silver Grey
Charcoal
Blue
Dark Blue
Green
Red
Gold

This is industrial Hammer-Tone Enamel. the AS/1 was done in DK/Blue

WARNING : Colour selection will cost you $10. (tee hee) because you probably will pick the colour I don't have and will have to go get one.

[Finster101]

Blue, dark blue or red, any of those work for me.

James

[pretzelxx]

Will it fit in a number 5 plastic container for dry tumble powder coat? Haha. I'll take charcoal please.

[SSGOldfart]

What ever color you on hand works for both of mine

[Gremlin460]

ARRRRGH must be getting tired!, 280 holes finally drilled, out of that 25% have to be thread tapped, and in the 9th hole....... TINK, my one and only tap snaps....

Guess its telling me to put it down for tonight..... *sigh*

[jmorris]

I hate it when that happens. With that many holes to tap you might setup a eBay search for "tapping head" I have picked up a few over the years for under $20. They can work in a normal drill press and not only do the deliver the tap straight into the part, they are also clutched and reverse the tap even though the spindle never stops, huge time saver.

[Gremlin460]

Did a quick look on ebay, 3 tapping heads listed $187,$280 and $335 respectively. I got 3 more taps today, and the first one breezed through all the remainder of the work.

98% done and ready for assembly, I am more than pleased with progress.

[Redwoode]

Charcoal if you please. Red alternate.

[6bg6ga]

Henry Ford once said "You can have any color as long as its black"

[jmorris]

Did a quick look on ebay, 3 tapping heads listed $187,$280 and $335 respectively.

Here is one at $9.99 with two days left. MT2 will also directly fit many drill presses.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tapping-Head...item2ed2259dee

The old ones are often over looked and sell cheap. Because they don't look as "high speed, low drag" as the Tapmatic units.

This is a video of my $14 one in action.


Makes tapping holes fast and easy, if you have a bunch of them.

[jmorris]

Another tool you may put in a search for is a burgmaster turret drill.

I just won one of these off eBay for $46. Not CNC but still a time saver if you are going to be making as many of your machines as I expect that demand will require.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...67720277,d.b2k

[Gremlin460]

Yes Dear!...

I know its sunday but I snuck down to the shed anyway.
PretzelXX your AS/2 frame was born today, I am still waiting on 2 separate materials, but that's for the slides so its a near the end of construction thing..

As you like pictures, here are 2 from today..






Now I did a few tweeks on the linkages, so they are smoother.
Also I will tell you now why I asked how many different casts you size.
the base is 200x200 square and most of the stuff is on the left hand side and across the front, this left the right rear quarter kinda empty.

Now for those who have never bought a Lee push through Sizing die, it comes in a large round plastic container, that doubles as a catch bin, when you resize the right way up.
Its large and takes a fair bit of shelf space up, especially if you have 3,4, or more.

Now if you get a few so you can do a range of sizes, you either fill up shelf space with these red containers, or you throw all but one away, which means you need to find a box to put the "not in use" Dies in. Then dig through the box each time you want to change sizers out.

So, I have built a triple layered rack in the right hand rear space that will hold 9 dies, neatly and right there at hand. Including the one in the machine itself you will have 10 dies all within arms reach.

Hope you find it helpful.

[Ausglock]

Good stuff, Grem. Very nice.
I have not done anymore to my motor driven sizer yet.
I plan to use a Star bullet feeder to feed the Lee up side down C press.
http://s193.photobucket.com/user/glo...mark2.mp4.html

[Gremlin460]

Good stuff, Grem. Very nice.
I have not done anymore to my motor driven sizer yet.
I plan to use a Star bullet feeder to feed the Lee up side down C press.
http://s193.photobucket.com/user/glo...mark2.mp4.html

Nice Trev, love the motor!! You think its big enough LOL

[pretzelxx]

WOW 10 dies? Sounds like I need to collect some more calibers! I've only got two so far! I love the pictures, I cannot wait to get speed sizing! Now I also need those bullet feeders... haha

[Gremlin460]

Real life work interfered a bit today, but I did have enough time to make Pretz die rack, this piture was taken just before I run it through the bead blaster and clan the surface for its first coat..

If you don't have enough Dies , the rack will also hold shot glasses of whisky!