… and you feed his Dillon 650!

For the past few weeks I was on a quest to make my new bullet collator work with T&B .32 60gr lead SWC bullets. These bullets are tiny so obviously neither .45 nor 9mm setup would work. So I went down the rabbit hole and followed the advise given me by a fellow Bullseye Forum user and purchased a 3D printer!

First, I modified the Mr. Bulletfeeder .308 dropper die according to the instructions found on the forum. After some minor tweaking it worked just fine. Now on to the interesting parts 🙂

The switch housing is pretty much standard 9mm tube from the “openBulletFeeder” project found on the Thingiverse. I only enlarged the hole for the spring a little bit, because the extension spring I bought on McMaster-Carr is a bit too thick.

After a few experiments I came up with the rotor that works with .32 caliber bullets. I thought it was the hard part but little did I know! The hard part was the flipper plate.

I printed it three or four times already but I still occasionally get nose down bullets, so I am going to continue with my experiments. But it looks very promising now!

One other issue is that the micro switch torque is too high for these lightweight bullets, I need to find one that works or replace it with the light barrier circuit.