Upgrades to automated bullet casting machine (explanation)

This is a walk through of upgrades to improve the consistency of this machine. A separate video shows it in use. It is rather noisy while running so it seemed better to not try to talk over the machine.
Unfortunately, my older phone seems to not have balanced audio and I hear it mostly through the left of my headphones. I would fix it or change it to mono if I knew of an easy way. It is a bit tough to try to get video and do a clear explanation at the same time, but hopefully some people find the video interesting our useful. When building this machine, I watched other amateur videos of what people built or modified and that helped me along with this project.

[@4570Govt]

Very nice machine. I have found a local person selling a master caster. I'm new to casting, so should I decide to pick it up, I'll keep it manually operated, but I do appreciate the "let the machine do the work" POV!

[@CGT80]

Thanks! A match director at our club saw my video last weekend. He has a master caster and wrote a program for an arduino but doesn't know how to do the mechanics and pneumatic portion. My machine is what I came up with after watching the master caster videos. I still have not seen one in person. There are old threads and videos on the cast boolits forum (also videos on youtube) of people automating them. Most likely I will do his. It isn't very complicated if you end up doing a lot of casting. It is good to go manual at first and then see how far down the rabbit hole you end up. 😁

[@503BikerDad]

Nice! Do you sell these?

[@CGT80]

No, there is a nice one available called the MasterCaster. It is smaller but can be automated the same way.

[@GunFunZS]

Nice work. I had similar ideas.