Honestly,I think these plastic feed dies should last for a long long time. There just isn't that much stress on anything to the point that it should fail.
Plastic m-dies? Who knows, maybe its worth a try!
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This is actually kind of fun creating these new dies, and taking my mind off of the extremely messed up situation this country now finds itself in.
9mm will be completed by tonight, then I am going to do .223 and 300BO. I could do a .40SW one fairly easily too if anyone wants it. The sky is the limit.
We are talking about feeding rifle cases base down correct? Because that does not use the regular drop hole that is part of the base. It uses a much larger drop hole that is part of the slide plate. If you haven't already checked out the base down case feeding video and files take a look.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xwO...ature=youtu.be
The 3d printing is affecting my reloading time...that is not acceptable.......haha
Did some printer calibration today, yea one printer was wayyyyyy off. Should be good to go now
Gah I wish the acetone smoothing worked on petg. Pretty much all I print now. But I might have to pla+ it up for some of these. I printed the 45 feeder die (with hole compensation and thin walls) the design on these are great! I'll be tossing my existing 9mm and 45 to backups and using these. I do need to find some really small rubber bands since the orings I have are too large and kinda fall off. Definitely looking forward to the other ones too. My hat is off to kind sir..
You're so right. It's almost surreal.
I knew you did some base-down rifle, but I'm going to have to search for the posts that describe it. Wasn't bad until I came here and we got you jumped started all over again :).....106 pages worth now!. I notice with base down pistols, you don't have or need a "ramp" problem, but I'm not sure, with that deep pile of cases how you keep some of them from going in neck down, muscled in by the pile. Even with Lee's shakers and my mods of them for rifle, deep stacks cause headaches, so you got me curious.
Bottle neck rifle case electric collators usually have slots that cases lay down in, and tilt heavy end down at the top of the barrel, so you're absolutely right, I won't be using the "bullet hole";)
Just for fun, I going to show you my "shaker" mod to collate rifle......which I'll be happy to retire.....even if it is pretty darn simple to keep cases coming loading 12' of cases at a time. The "el" shaped holes don't care whether it's .308, or .223.......one size fits both........but I'm not at all thinking I could make a rotary plate do that.
https://vimeo.com/365180828
https://vimeo.com/365180897
That is awesome! I was just going to ask where they were sourced since my wife looked at me funny when I asked "know where to get little rubber bands?" I do have some smaller orings I suppose I will try. The tolerances are great on these. Not having to ream or sand the hole to get the bearing to work well is great. I also ordered some 3.5mm for the future ones.
I actually found out about it when I was originally printing dies and needed more clearance (experimental under shell) since hole sizes are never right and I would have to tweak hole sizes in cad to compensate. Nice to be able to do in the slicer. Also seems like it depends on the hole too... and definitely the printer. My CR10v2 does fine with less but my ender3 will undersize holes way worse.
I just remembered I have some smaller o-rings I ordered to fix a leak on my lathe! Now I need to find where in my shop they are.
I still have to make a metal mounting bracket for the larger base. I've printed all the BNU and BND plates. By the way.. Greatness having the text on the front. going to be even more drop adapters to print now :)
I used to use those on my RCBS pistol bullet feeder dies too...
https://www.walmart.com/ip/100x-Dent...RoCdAUQAvD_BwE
I have just uploaded v1.1.0
Changes include:
- 9mm drop tube resized from 9.2 to 9.5 to give more clearance for 9mm / .355 bullets .
- 10mm drop tube resized from 10.2 to 10.5 to give more clearance for 10mm / .40 bullets.
- New bullet feeder dies added (9mm, .40, .45)
- Collator generator 2.0.8. New parameters to create large rifle brass plates.
Here is a real world example (thanks RedLegEd)
description=".45-70 Cases";
caliber=56;
collator_plate_h=8
isRifleBrassPlate = true;
rifleHoleWidth = 12;
You know what I really hate? Tyler just put me on to some free design software, DesignSpark, and sent me an .rsdoc file to play with on it, and I admit that it's neater than hell.......and then he adds all this new stuff! What do I really hate? I can't even begin to keep up.
When I was younger that'd be no problem.....I'd just do a few all nighters, learning, and be fine. No more of that.....I fall asleep.....what a curse.;) I think I've watched 10 tutorials today......went to sleep in the last one.....and I wasn't even bored. I really like this DesignSpark....but then do you have to convert it to something else to make a .STL file? Right?
So far, I'm thinking it's as powerful as 3d Autocad and some things are even easier.....just wish my Autocad could read their DXF files but they wont.....and that's a mystery I haven't gotten to the bottom of.
Thanks for all all the effort!
How many of you have a large base printer (300,300,400)? For my 308 rifle cases I'm entertaining another size upgrade to make a bigger plate still.....obviously that wouldn't be for Enders' and such. But I'm going to print Tyler's base this weekend first and see if there's really a need for extra large. I need to retire and do this full time.....rolling eyes......
I tried the rubber bands and found that that wore out faster like in 800 or so rounds. Mind you the rubber bands I used were just cheap one what are made of TPU not rubber. I find the o-rings work the best. I would try and souce some out. Maybe TylerR can post which size he used.
Just used the collator generator to make this plate for .223 brass. I will print it out and see how it does with the "Pistol_Brass_Slide_Feed_Base_Down" adapter plate.
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