I noticed that a vendor sponsor (parrot1969) is selling GSI bullet feeders, so I thought I'd start a thread about them, if there's any interest.
I use the manual-feed setup of the GSI with my Dillon 650 for 9mm, but haven't tried to use the collator.
Although the learning curve has been a bit steep at times, I've learned how to make them work smoothly - I wouldn't be without them and have two of them set up for the 9mm boolits that I load.
My boolits are from Magma molds, and I've found the bevel base molds are the only ones that will let me use the GSI toolhead without shaving a sliver off the base.
Also, I use a hard lube (magma blue) - I've tried softer lubes but they are too sticky to work in the feeder.
Also, for one of my boolits (a truncated cone that I have to load at 1.02"OAL to chamber in my Browning Hi Power) I use the GSI seating die only to start the boolit, then have an RCBS seating-crimping die in the 5th station to finish seating. I can't use the GSI seating die to seat to my OAL because if it is screwed in that far, the feed wheel hangs up.
I could go on, if there's any interest in a GSI thread.
Does anybody use the GSI collator with cast boolits? I've been wondering if I should give it a try.
Bill