Sunday, October 28, 2012

Getting Started, The Auto Case Trimmer

For those of you that are precision shooters, you probably load your own cartridges and are aware of how time consuming case prep can be.  I purchased a RCBS Trim Pro Power Case Trimmer to help speed the process along.  Although it helped, it was still time consuming to load and unload the cases and did not leave my hands free for the deburring op.  One day I got to looking at my pile of parts and decided to add a few pneumatic cylinders, flow controls, and a foot valve to the trimmer.


The end result is crude, but my foot now controls the two levers that use to require my hands and has freed up enough time between cases that I can trim and debur simultaneously.  This video was shot with an old camera that wouldn't focus, but you get the idea: