I’ve been watching some of the YouTube videos of automated reloading set-ups, and especially the DIY systems.
Like a lot of you, I prefer to do my sizing and priming separate from powder/bullet/ crimp.
I just got the Lee APP, and it’s about as perfect as I could ask for in swaging the primer pockets in 1K of 308 or 556 brass at one sitting (perfect would be my wife doing it for me, but that’s not going to happen).
Is anyone here interested in brainstorming an automated sizing only (DIY) set up?
I’m thinking a pneumatic ram that would push the brass into the sizing die, OR maybe push the sizing die down over the brass on its shell holder. A small actuator would kick the resized case off the shell holder.
What I want to accomplish is a hopper fed system that I could size about 1,000 cases at a time.
I doubt I could make it “set-and-forget” (case misfeeds happen in even the most expensive commercial systems), but I bet we could come up with something pretty close.
Ideas?