I designed and built this towards the end of last year. I took my general design from two different machines they had on the 6mmBR web site, then added several Jay upgrades.
My main game is shooting 1000yd F-Class open. As of late I have been getting into practical tactical precision shooting and find it MUCH more challenging and FUN. I put a lot of time into making match brass for consistency to compete with so I want it to last longer than 3 or four cycles. The other bennefit being consistency in neck tention loading to loading.
This picture shows the 1/4" O-ring material I have mounted into the bottom plate and serves two functions. One and the main reason is to rotate the brass. As the upper plate rotates at 1 RPM the brass is just resting on the O-ring at 45 degrees so this rotates the brass very nicley, positivly and evenly. Second reason is to eliminate rough treatment of brass when dropping them in place.
My torch heads are completly and easily ajustabe for heigth and rotation via thumb screws on there pillars. The center area is hogged out to serve a cooling function. As the flame with shorter calibers is close to the plate it heats up. By putting water in the center it will extract heat by boiling and not letting the plate get much over 220 deg. This is important for bearings but mostly by not letting the geared drive motor get to hot but it does have a built in fan helping to cool it. It can be loaded from the top and belted magnums from the bottom then the case rides up the ramp. It works like a champ at 1200 cases per hour.
My main game is shooting 1000yd F-Class open. As of late I have been getting into practical tactical precision shooting and find it MUCH more challenging and FUN. I put a lot of time into making match brass for consistency to compete with so I want it to last longer than 3 or four cycles. The other bennefit being consistency in neck tention loading to loading.
This picture shows the 1/4" O-ring material I have mounted into the bottom plate and serves two functions. One and the main reason is to rotate the brass. As the upper plate rotates at 1 RPM the brass is just resting on the O-ring at 45 degrees so this rotates the brass very nicley, positivly and evenly. Second reason is to eliminate rough treatment of brass when dropping them in place.
My torch heads are completly and easily ajustabe for heigth and rotation via thumb screws on there pillars. The center area is hogged out to serve a cooling function. As the flame with shorter calibers is close to the plate it heats up. By putting water in the center it will extract heat by boiling and not letting the plate get much over 220 deg. This is important for bearings but mostly by not letting the geared drive motor get to hot but it does have a built in fan helping to cool it. It can be loaded from the top and belted magnums from the bottom then the case rides up the ramp. It works like a champ at 1200 cases per hour.
