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Star Reloaders Discussion Forums => Star Reloaders => Topic started by: MNORT10X on April 19, 2012, 04:52:02 am
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This is one I've done.
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and one more photo
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and from back with MA Systems bullet feeder
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MA Systems produced the finest products for the Star to make it fully progressive. I have all of their products and they work flawlessly.
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Tony
Why did they quit making those Accessories/Products.. ??? ???
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My guess is the demand slowed due to Dillon's emergence into the market and Stars aging staff also MA Systems products were expensive. The Easy Loader without collator and air supply was $355.00 in 1986.
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Thanks for that information
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Now I've done it, my fully automatic Star...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEjgM3lCqmA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEjgM3lCqmA)
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lucky lucky lucky....awesome setup.
If anyone comes across an MA systems bullet feeder they don't want, please let me know
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That is a great set up but I would not have the guts to make mine an auto drive as I'm more comfortable feeling the machine. You are also very mechanically inclined. Nice job.
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Added video of MA Systems bullet feeder running. Have reloaded about 12,000 rounds on this system with no problems, just had to make sure the brass is very clean, no media residue. I have been using stainless steel media to clean brass before running through this setup.
http://s1019.beta.photobucket.com/user/mnort10x/media/VIDEO0027.mp4.html (http://s1019.beta.photobucket.com/user/mnort10x/media/VIDEO0027.mp4.html)
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Quite the setup. Was video in real time?
How many rounds per hour production?
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The motor is a 15rpm - 900 rph I have to load primers every 6-3/4min. per 100 rounds. I end up with around 800 rounds an hour. They also have a 20rpm - 1200rph motor that I could have gotten but I chose a little slower for my first setup.
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Awesome setup, thanks for posting the video.
How do you find the MA systems bullet feeder, is it troublesome or finicky at all?
I've thought about adding one to my Star if I could track one down, but it would be difficult to find one I suspect.
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Thanks for the video, when I finally get my reloading room redone I'll be adding the MA system feeder to the Star
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this is awesome!!!
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I don't know how long bullet feeders have been around, but I remember watching an operation (back in the 1970s) by a man who reloaded .38 Special practice ammo for a number of police departments in the San Diego area. He powered his Star reloaders with, I think, washing machine motors and transmissions, with micro-switches everywhere in case there was a jam. He filled incredibly long tubes with primers, cases, powder, etc., flipped a switch and went off to do something else. I watched as one Star produced a couple hundred rounds without a hitch. (He had hung an M1 Garand clip so that as a round was ejected, it pinged. If he didn't hear a pin, he'd check if there was a problem or if he just had to add more components.)
He had done something similar with a couple Star lubricators. I seem to remember that the cast bullets were lubed as they came out of the tube (so he didn't periodically have to put a lubed bullet back through the die), but I can't remember what the setup looked like. Again, I watched as a large number were processed without a single hitch.
It probably helped that he had worked at Star for many years.
I bought a Star reloader from him. (I don't know what the model was. I think it was the Universal and came with the Hulme(?) indexer.) He had modified it to use standard 7/8 dies. Unfortunately, finances got tight some years ago and I sold it (and my BMW motorcycle). Hindsight being 20/20, I should have tightened my belt somewhere else. I have a Dillon 650 now, and it does a fine job. But it is not the poetry of beautifully-machined steel that a Star is. I'd love to get another one and keep it set up for .45ACP.
Cheers,
Richard