Automated Belt Loader

[anm2_man]

Just wanted to see if any of you have seen one of these before:

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It belongs to my son, and it is really cool.

[Kali Komrade]

Looks cool how'd he couple the area where the handle came out with the electric motor... Seems that it looks easier to load more rounds in the feed area too... :thumb:

[anm2_man]

Kali

I expected you to be the first to respond. Actually the motor is connected to Speed reduction unit. This slows down the RPM's. Out of the reduction gear box its connect to the belter by a small drive shaft that is hooked to a set of 3/8" drive flex joints (Actually there from Sears). Then its connected wit another drive shaft to the crank handle end of the belter.

My son bought from Brian "BAinMO" from the 1919a4 board. He was making them about 10 years ago.

Roger

[Kali Komrade]

Thats gotta make the purist cringe....:green: I saw someone that had a crank powered linker for sale a while back... I still have to get me a cloth belt loader that will probibly be very soon... The water cooled loves cloth... But my other monster I'm working' on will love the links...:coffee:

[anm2_man]

Yeah but most of the purist that have seen it say - WOW that is cool.

[GUNRUNNER5150]

wow that IS pretty friggen cool man, i had once thought about if someone could pull off the crank handle and put a drill chuck on the crank connector and run on slow speed with high torque. I didnt have one to look at and see if it was even possible, but now i see it is. :beer: you ougghta see me hand loading my green belts by pushing them over a table lol, no busted knuckles for you anymore

GR

[fantacmet]

That's just sweet, now someone has to come up with a way to load the links automatically. Something Imay just have to look into. I don't have a beltfed(yet) but rugman(the guy who brought me here to this forum), does, and I can always take a few measurements of his links and such, and then plug them into a cad program and see what I can come up with. Might be an interesting project. I've helped load a few of those links(not many I admit, about 10), and man, you guys who load them by the thousands by hand are NUTS!

[tbcseod]

I just wish I could afford enough rounds to keep something like that feed!:shock:

Sweet looking set up none the less :thumb:

[anm2_man]

When you load the belt - you need to empty it No matter what it costs.

Enjoy

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[weasel_master]

After loading belts by hand, I regret selling my loader.