New tray loader

[websterz]

I attached six empty ammo trays to a board and use it to load my boolit trays for powder coating. I fill the loader in a checkerboard pattern, lay a tray on top, then flip the whole thing over and have 150 perfectly spaced boolits ready to go. I'm building another for 9mm and .40 caliber that will set 250 and 200 boolits respectively.

[Beagle333]

Pretty cool! That's production right there!

[petroid]

That's the way to do it! I'm going to need a spray gun now. I got tired of DT because it was tedious to pick them out with forceps

[Yodogsandman]

Great idea! Got to make me one!

[Walter Laich]

I use the 50 hole wooden (or plastic now) loading blocks but same idea. Works well

[mongoose33]

I use the Beagle method of small nuts epoxied to the tray and NSAF pressed down over the top of them. I'm thinking of a jig that will have holes that line up w/ the nuts, fits over the top of the tray, and thus I can put boolits into the holes and thus onto the tops of the nuts.

If I were going to put them on a flat tray, I believe I'd use Websterz' method above. That's good thinking, there.

[websterz]

Yesterday morning, over the course of about three hours, I PC'ed 1050 230 grain Lee truncated cones. Then I ran them all through a .451 push thru sizer. Today I loaded up 100 of them over 4.4 grains of Promo and headed to the range. I ran them thru my Ruger SR45 with very good accuracy and ZERO leading. I got to try out my new chronograph as well. The 45's averaged 757 fps. I'm going to bump the charge back up to 4.9 grains and see if I can't get closer to my goal of 820 fps. That is a 50 shot average for Federal Champion. My extreme spread was 60 fps and the standard deviation was 13. Not too shabby, just not as fast as I'd like to see them moving.

[ryokox3]

Very nice idea

[Dragonheart]

Why not get a plastic egg crate light diffuser used on ceiling mounted fluorescent lights if you want to do this? They are 24" x 48", thin, 1/2" grid and cost around $10. I would think they would work well for this application?

[websterz]

That would work just as well. $10 is still $10 though. I get all the ammo trays I want for free at the range. I like free!!