GW Staar
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First lights.....great idea but required a modified primer column. (Which I was hoping to improve a little anyway). The two screws are temporary and just dropped in, not screwed in. All that is intended and needed is hex shafts with heads that drop into Lee's hex head bolts...
See....primer column interferes.....but the lights are great and worth it....also designed for a future video camera for powder level watch, which I prefer to powder cops. Camera is on a slow boat from China.....nobody in the USA makes anything anymore.....not even domestic autobody parts!
You can also see the new printed one-piece primer column....I moved the column closer to the primer shutter to make it feed a couple more primers.....but still last two primers won't feed....better than 4 though....and simpler because of the long front slot, where the last two primers can be feed by hand with just a wire with a 1/2" bend on the bottom....or you can drop a couple more primers behind them. So far........hopefully more to come in a day or two.
This would be a good thing to print in a resin 3D printer, which print smoother, without the line texture, and therefore would not need so much filing and sanding inside to make it flow like water......but since I don't have one.....filed, sanded, and powdered graphite was necessary to make it flow like water.
Took three tries to get the perfect shape. It's not as rough as it looks....the powdered graphite got everywhere...which is what makes it look rough. It's pure black...I'll wash the silver off the outside surfaces tomorrow....
The lights and camera design below.....thinking I'll change where the wires come out....don't like the top exit. First prints of a new design rarely are the final prints.
Also will angle the center camera just a little toward the plate. Have tried, temporarily, a camera used on another press.... works best angled a little. The LED's are two strips of 3....on either side of the central camera.
See....primer column interferes.....but the lights are great and worth it....also designed for a future video camera for powder level watch, which I prefer to powder cops. Camera is on a slow boat from China.....nobody in the USA makes anything anymore.....not even domestic autobody parts!
You can also see the new printed one-piece primer column....I moved the column closer to the primer shutter to make it feed a couple more primers.....but still last two primers won't feed....better than 4 though....and simpler because of the long front slot, where the last two primers can be feed by hand with just a wire with a 1/2" bend on the bottom....or you can drop a couple more primers behind them. So far........hopefully more to come in a day or two.
This would be a good thing to print in a resin 3D printer, which print smoother, without the line texture, and therefore would not need so much filing and sanding inside to make it flow like water......but since I don't have one.....filed, sanded, and powdered graphite was necessary to make it flow like water.
Took three tries to get the perfect shape. It's not as rough as it looks....the powdered graphite got everywhere...which is what makes it look rough. It's pure black...I'll wash the silver off the outside surfaces tomorrow....The lights and camera design below.....thinking I'll change where the wires come out....don't like the top exit. First prints of a new design rarely are the final prints.
Also will angle the center camera just a little toward the plate. Have tried, temporarily, a camera used on another press.... works best angled a little. The LED's are two strips of 3....on either side of the central camera.
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