Making that Bullet Collator

[TylerR]

Are the step/3mf files or any other source files that these stl files are generated from available somewhere?

No the source is not posted. I do give out very specific files sometimes but they are in DSM.

[GWS]

I think it depends on how many bullets you are loading in the hopper. I have a guy who wants to load up 1000 9mm bullets in to a 300mm size feeder. Strips the hex out very quickly.

I can imagine that's so. I admit freely that I NEVER fill up a collater with heavy bullets, and never plan to. My max is a hundred count box at a time at the very most. PLA is lightweight, and thermal printing a .2mm layer at a time is not even close as strong as injection molded nylon or such. But I want my plates and base to last a long time, and they will if I'm reasonable. 1000 9mm is bad enough....how about a 1000 .45's. that would really abuse. But to each there own, I guess.

[r4ndy]

Using the regular size feeders for a few years, the clutch works perfectly IMO. Never stripped a clutch with well North of 10K rounds through two collators. I typically start with 250-300 124gr 9’s in the collator and do fine with the Greartisan motor. If I fill the brass collator much more than a couple hundred for 223 processing the clutch spins, so I just don’t overfill. They also don’t feed as well when I put too many in at a time. Also, it is good to take a few min and rest my old shoulder while refilling to avoid repetitive stress as I had some ligament issues a couple years back.

[doublemike]

No the source is not posted. I do give out very specific files sometimes but they are in DSM.

That's a bummer. Why not make it a community project?
Due to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license I thought people would be able to adapt.

This makes for a lot of duplicated efforts.