jmorris
07-26-2012, 11:04 PM
Playing with my PLC controled automated 1050 tonight, I was thinking of how to make sure that no steel cases could be fed into the machine. It already will have "no bullet/inverted,no cases" sensors on it but what if a steel case happened to make it into the feeder?
I grabbed a magnet off the shelf and placed it on the case feed tube spring clamp. It sucks the case to the magnet, triggers the switch to stop the feeder, pop the tube out and pull the magnet off and the case drops into your hand. Snap the tube back in and replace the magnet and your good to go (flip the case feed switch off and back on though).
Thought it would have been handy for others to know. I now run a large magnet over all cases before tumbling but could have been usefull before I did.
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv5/qvideo/IMAG0992.jpg
I grabbed a magnet off the shelf and placed it on the case feed tube spring clamp. It sucks the case to the magnet, triggers the switch to stop the feeder, pop the tube out and pull the magnet off and the case drops into your hand. Snap the tube back in and replace the magnet and your good to go (flip the case feed switch off and back on though).
Thought it would have been handy for others to know. I now run a large magnet over all cases before tumbling but could have been usefull before I did.
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv5/qvideo/IMAG0992.jpg