NH Phantom
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Looking for the best and fastest way to sort brass. Especially 380 from 9mm
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Sorting brass
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pastera
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National Metallic Brass Sorting Trays 9mm Luger 40 S&W 45 ACP 3 Bowl
Speed up the reloading process with the National Metallic Brass Sorting Trays. These trays fit in a five gallon bucket, and enable you to sort 9mm, 40...
www.midwayusa.com
Shell Sorter Brass Sorter 380 ACP Adapter Plate
"Helping reloaders save time!" The innovative design of the Shell Sorter Brass Sorter helps save tedious hours of separating the most common...
www.midwayusa.com
You can't beat the sale price MIdway is having for those at the moment. If you wanted to print some, you can do these. But they won't get the 380's out
www.thingiverse.com
On here, we designed a 380 sorter that works on a different principle:
www.northeastshooters.com
That thread has all the info you need on this topic.
Brass Case Sorter by Surrogate
A great job by macobaco on the original design. I remixed it to make it more like the commercially available ammo sorter. There are 3 stacking trays. The top one separates .45 ACP cases. The middle one will separate .40 S&W/10mm and the bottom tray will catch 9mm/.38. Trash and .22LR cases...
www.thingiverse.com
On here, we designed a 380 sorter that works on a different principle:
Sorting Brass 2.0
I have the shell sorter: Shell Sorter™ sorts your brass by caliber, saving you time, shoot more It’s great and I love how low tech it is. You just need to wear a mask when using it. Now I’m looking for a method to find the few .380’s that make it into my 9mm bucket which is what this device is...
www.northeastshooters.com
That thread has all the info you need on this topic.
NH Phantom
NES Member
Thanks just found it. I'm downloading files nowYou can't beat the sale price MIdway is having for those at the moment. If you wanted to print some, you can do these. But they won't get the 380's out
Brass Case Sorter by Surrogate
A great job by macobaco on the original design. I remixed it to make it more like the commercially available ammo sorter. There are 3 stacking trays. The top one separates .45 ACP cases. The middle one will separate .40 S&W/10mm and the bottom tray will catch 9mm/.38. Trash and .22LR cases...
On here, we designed a 380 sorter that works on a different principle:
Sorting Brass 2.0
I have the shell sorter: Shell Sorter™ sorts your brass by caliber, saving you time, shoot more It’s great and I love how low tech it is. You just need to wear a mask when using it. Now I’m looking for a method to find the few .380’s that make it into my 9mm bucket which is what this device is...
That thread has all the info you need on this topic.
NH Phantom
NES Member
I just noticed that they loaded a smaller than 9 that can be used for 380You can't beat the sale price MIdway is having for those at the moment. If you wanted to print some, you can do these. But they won't get the 380's out
Brass Case Sorter by Surrogate
A great job by macobaco on the original design. I remixed it to make it more like the commercially available ammo sorter. There are 3 stacking trays. The top one separates .45 ACP cases. The middle one will separate .40 S&W/10mm and the bottom tray will catch 9mm/.38. Trash and .22LR cases...
On here, we designed a 380 sorter that works on a different principle:
Sorting Brass 2.0
I have the shell sorter: Shell Sorter™ sorts your brass by caliber, saving you time, shoot more It’s great and I love how low tech it is. You just need to wear a mask when using it. Now I’m looking for a method to find the few .380’s that make it into my 9mm bucket which is what this device is...
That thread has all the info you need on this topic.
In that other thread @pastera indicated that the 3d printing isn’t fine enough to be able to catch the 9’s but not the 380s.
Which i have no reason to doubt, hence the metal plate being the best option for that. Or my goofball little thing to catch the 9mm “corto”
NH Phantom
NES Member
I'm going to try yours first.
NH Phantom
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That plate is now on thingiverse
NH Phantom
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I'll give it a shot and report back
i can bring the ones i printed to the seminar and you can try them out if you want. I even printed the 40 in a different color. I think mine took 20 hours to print. PETG
I got a commercially made one in a lot and the only real benefit is that it is a bigger tray. Works about as well.
NH Phantom
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I printed the bottom of the one you posted. Top printing now. Will be done in a couple hours
38ExtraSpecial
NES Member
Thank you. I’ll probably print all of them by then though. I haven’t been using my printer much so it’s nice to run it.
No problem. The biggest issue was filing the 45 and 40 ones so that the smaller ones would fall through. If you have a better first layer than I got you may not have to do any filing. It was slightly tedious to file all of the slots.
38ExtraSpecial
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NH Phantom
NES Member
I’m printing the same set plus the 380 started this morning. Will be done in the morning. Ah the advantage of having 6 printers.
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38ExtraSpecial
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Wow that’s a nice set up.
Let me know how the 380 plate works. I’m wondering how close the tolerances need to be.
NH Phantom
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I don't think you have to print the 9mm one. The 380 one will catch the 9mm. 380's go about half way through. A small bit of sanding or filing should clean that up
38ExtraSpecial
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Damn I printed the 9mm first.
NH Phantom
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223 will go through the 380 unlike the 9mm
38ExtraSpecial
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Interesting. So 223 doesn’t go through the 9mm bin but goes through the 380 bin?
NH Phantom
NES Member
correct the 9 bin is smaller than the 380
| 380 | 9mm | |
|---|---|---|
| Bullet Diameter | .355 in (9.0 mm) | 0.355 in (9.01 mm) |
| Neck Diameter | .373 in (9.5 mm) | 0.380 in (9.65 mm) |
| Base Diameter | .374 in (9.5 mm) | 0.391 in (9.93 mm) |
It has a smaller diameter case...so guessing some extrusion is causing this. You may have just gotten lucky with how much the extrusion was off. The filing may not be able to be fine enough to not overfile it (If you know what I mean).
38ExtraSpecial
NES Member
I have to measure my print now. I did a quick test with the 45 and 9 mm plates. The 556 will not slide through. Even with a little pressure. I’ll take some measurements and try to re-print a few percent larger if need be
38ExtraSpecial
NES Member
I’m also finding that I load too many different cartridges. My 45–70 my 45 colt my 44 magnum, my 44 special and my 44 Russian stay in the top with the 45 ACP. It still leaves me a fair deal of sorting. Someone needs to come up with a plate to yank some of those rimmed cartridges out.
