All I know is I have 40,000 bullets ready to size, and I still don't have the press. Anybody else preorder from FS Reloading? Just wondering if they have shipped any at this point.
All I know is I have 40,000 bullets ready to size, and I still don't have the press. Anybody else preorder from FS Reloading? Just wondering if they have shipped any at this point.
Just came across this thread. I have been using a Lee single stage press inverted with a air powdered Bimba cylinder to size bullets., but one bullet hand at a time. May just have to get one of these. Thanks for all the info and YouTube videos.
Hope you plan on automating it, or have a good orthopedic surgeon lined up to handle your shoulder surgery 40k boolits by hand is going to be a chore.
I just have to say. Roto and Julio have put out really good vids on this. Roto, thank you very much! If anyone can extend my thanks to Julio, please do so... although... I am not sure I should be trusting the word of someone with such a clean reloading bench and immaculate finger nails without any dirt under them.
I did cancel my order. But I will be putting my order back in when I hear they are shipping with the updated shell holders of the design Julio has shown.
From there, I'm going to be making a case and bullet collators on my 3d printer.
The Lee looks impressive when they start out showing a tube full of cast ready to size and then race as fast as they can go to crank'em through. There's one thing they don't show you...'how long it takes to fill that short little tube', all that time has to be accounted for also...
You can change that 'one at a time', time consuming feed rate to a much faster one by making a feed table and feed chute to feed the die.
This was 'in the beginning' as your doing, of course hand operated, not an air cylinder...'hand fed one at a time'...
Then there was the 'feed table and chute' & that was the 'game changer' in sizing speed...
Here's how it works...
https://gunstreamer.com/watch/final-...SzVrJzhhd.html
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OS OK,
Your set up reminds me of a similar one I saw on a Star. The guy did not have a feed table, but used a plastic pipe to feed the bullets just as you have. The guy would take a handful of bullets and stuff then into the tube as he pumped the handle. It was stupid simple and worked very well. The pipe was about 3-4 inches long and kept his fingers away from the pinch point.
I am with you that manually fed tubes are a non starter having used them for a while on the Star feeder.
Nice work!!!
Don Verna
You guys need to invest in a mr bullet feeder.
Massive time saver.
OS
Your set up as far as the press is the same way I am doing mine, except I took handle off and use a air cylinder to run ram up and down. Like your feed set up. What angle is your feed tube at? May try to see if that will work on my set up.
As I've said before...this angle works fine on any pistol cast out there...EXCEPT FWC's! <they, along with the long rifle rounds require a much higher angle of attack into the die...this higher angle tube I haven't worked on yet. Since I've made this gizmo it has been pretty much exclusively for 1K's of pistol fodder. FWC's still get hand fed along with the rifle casts.
Maybe I'll get around to it this summer when I start working rifle cast again? Or...better yet, you figure it out and tell me?
Here's what I have...
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Just got the email from Midsouth that the press is in. Hopefully to have it by the end of the week.
Titan order updated to shipped. Mine had the swager in it as well. Plus Lee says they redesigned a few things so hopefully those items were changed out.
I hear in these posts that Lee is stepping up and fixing some of the short comings and bugs that have manifested since this release which is great. At the same time I truly believe that Lee was premature with this release. They should have sent a couple hundreds of these machines out to supporters for a lengthy beta testing. Then they would have found many of the flaws, things that don't work as they thought they would or should. Then they could have made many of these changes and upgrades before this press ever came to market. Sure they ran their million cycle stress test but that is not real world actual use. The way you or I would ever use this.
Don't get me wrong I am a Lee supporter and hope this new press is a huge success. I just hate to see them taking Heat for another product that doesn't perform as advertised.
I just wish it had a slightly longer arm or possibly an adjustable length and a ball handle. The split handle doesn't do it for me.
Gotta say that If I have to I'll throw the pins in the Atlas and add the dimple on the bottom. We'll have to see how the retention goes. I also am wanting to measure the unversal decapper pin and see if it fits the die. I may just use my universal decapper (not the flare die) because I want to do 243 as well which is basically small necked 308 and I don't want to make my 243 brass 308.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |