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[jmorris]

Playing with my PLC controled automated 1050 tonight, I was thinking of how to make sure that no steel cases could be fed into the machine. It already will have "no bullet/inverted,no cases" sensors on it but what if a steel case happened to make it into the feeder?

I grabbed a magnet off the shelf and placed it on the case feed tube spring clamp. It sucks the case to the magnet, triggers the switch to stop the feeder, pop the tube out and pull the magnet off and the case drops into your hand. Snap the tube back in and replace the magnet and your good to go (flip the case feed switch off and back on though).

Thought it would have been handy for others to know. I now run a large magnet over all cases before tumbling but could have been usefull before I did.

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Edited by jmorris, 26 July 2012 - 07:58 PM.

[Coleman]

I also have a magnet. works great. another thing i did was cut a slot the bottom of the plastic feed tube so i can put a pin in it and not drop brass all over when taking out the tube full of brass.

[John Wayne]

Mr. Morris... You are a credit to American ingenuity!

[freakshow10mm]

Been doing the same thing a couple years. Works well.

[gm iprod]

Being a careful person. I also run a big magnet over the cases as they come out of the tumbler. You just never know.

[freakshow10mm]

Yup. That's for sure. I dump mine out on a large pan (2ft x 2ft) and run a magnet over it just to be on the safe side.

[gm iprod]

I got 4 x 5 gallon buckets of range brass from some nice folks in MO. One bucket had been topped and under neath was all the scraps from the pre shoot clean. 10% was steel. I understand the other recipient had about the same in one of theirs. Luckily I had a 5lb magnet from HarbourFfreight, just brilliant. Looked like a porcupine after the first pass. Took some getting off until I used a bag over the damn thing.