Well this is my latest Frankenstein! Last year I got a star sizer that I showed on the forum. And love it but the last time I used it I had 2500 bullets to size with it, still a lot of handling of the bullets. Then I started to think about a bullet feeder, the trick was to make one that would feed the bullets nose down and would flip and nose up to the down position. So started drawing up some ideas and came up with this. Now I had most of the stuff on hand like the steel and wood, I did need a motor that I got at lowes and that was a grill rotisserie motor for $29. So when I started had a 5 gal bucket and the motor and started fitting things together. Making the bullet disk was a bit tough but got that done and fitted. So you can see on the one photo the drop hole is offset, so nose down they drop but if in nose up the base of the bullet can’t drop because of the offset. Then if it doesn’t drop goes to the next station where a grove is cut on a angle that starts the bullet to flip (cool to watch). Took many days to fine tune it, I would throw a few hundred in and just watch it making sure they would drop perfect. Had to modify it several times, once I had 100% feed then I welded up the frame. Then I worked on the part at the bottom where the bullet drops in the die. Made the bullet bar out of Maple good hardwood and built around that now I needed to make it work automatic. I had a electromagnet unit I bought years ago for something else but never used it. I was hard figuring the right arm length to get the proper throw, but finally got that to work. To make electromagnet work I put a switch under the new and longer activating arm, so when the handle went in the full up position made the electromagnet engage and as soon as the handle come down it retracts. KOOL I GOT THIS FAR!!! now how to control how many bullet go down the feeding tube. This is where I learn more than what I wanted again, so looking around I found a guy the did a system with electronics. He built a circuit board that used infrared sensors( now really at my age to build my first circuit board) but I did and it wasn’t easy. All the stuff was available at radio shack. But it works really good as the bullets fill the tube it stops then you set the second sensor on the bottom as the tube is emptied it won’t refill till it gets to the bottom sensor and fills back up to the top. That saves the motor from short cycling. Did add some small ball bearing under the bullet plate to help with the weight of all the bullets. So I think this whole thing cost around $100 to make. The commercial units I have seen got around $1000 and guys where complaining about them. So I didn’t have the money and if it going to give you problems, I figured I was hardheaded enough to get this done. So just got done casting 3100 45 swc and this will make easy work of it. So that’s my story and stickin to it