I posted a few months ago some images of a trimmer that I was making to house a Giraud Tri-Way Trimmer head to make what I was calling a "Poor Man's Giraud Trimmer". That thread is here:
https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/ammunition-reloading/425601-case-trimmers.html
Well, I finally got around to finishing the project with the help of a good buddy. He was able to get a stainless steel frame built for me to hold the motor, and it allows me to orient the trimmer in either a horizontal or vertical orientation. Pretty cool!
Just to refresh your memories, or if you don't want to read the other thread, I bought a buffer from Harbor Freight (like a grinder, only with buffer wheels), cut off the left shaft completely, and the cut of the threads of the right shaft with my angle grinder (cut like butter, and took about 60 seconds on each shaft). Giraud says you need to have the motor spinning counter-clockwise when looking at the end of the trimmer.
The buffer motor spins at 3,450 RPM, and the Giraud motor spins at 3,000 RPM, so this is a pretty good fit speed-wise.
Then I bought a coupler off of Amazon to adapt the 1/2" shaft on the buffer to the 3/8" shaft on the trimmer. This idea should work fine with other trimmers (WFT or Trim-it II) depending on their shaft diameters. I sent an email to Giraud, and they replied within a day with the 3/8" diameter. Here is the coupler:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
The unit was now fully functional in the horizontal orientation, but I wanted to be able to switch back-and-forth, and as it turns out, Giraud recommends a vertical orientation anyway to keep brass chips from affecting the next case. This is where my buddy comes in to make the stainless steel frame. We put rubber feet on both surfaces to stabilize the unit, and I added a rubber pad on the blunt end to minimize vibrations.
Here are some images of my completed $165 Poor Man's Giraud Trimmer:
HORIZONTAL:
VERTICAL:
BACK SIDE: (Here you can see the slots that were cut into the frame to allow adjustment of the height of the buffer)
It works great, and I couldn't be happier!!!
https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/ammunition-reloading/425601-case-trimmers.html
Well, I finally got around to finishing the project with the help of a good buddy. He was able to get a stainless steel frame built for me to hold the motor, and it allows me to orient the trimmer in either a horizontal or vertical orientation. Pretty cool!
Just to refresh your memories, or if you don't want to read the other thread, I bought a buffer from Harbor Freight (like a grinder, only with buffer wheels), cut off the left shaft completely, and the cut of the threads of the right shaft with my angle grinder (cut like butter, and took about 60 seconds on each shaft). Giraud says you need to have the motor spinning counter-clockwise when looking at the end of the trimmer.
The buffer motor spins at 3,450 RPM, and the Giraud motor spins at 3,000 RPM, so this is a pretty good fit speed-wise.
Then I bought a coupler off of Amazon to adapt the 1/2" shaft on the buffer to the 3/8" shaft on the trimmer. This idea should work fine with other trimmers (WFT or Trim-it II) depending on their shaft diameters. I sent an email to Giraud, and they replied within a day with the 3/8" diameter. Here is the coupler:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
The unit was now fully functional in the horizontal orientation, but I wanted to be able to switch back-and-forth, and as it turns out, Giraud recommends a vertical orientation anyway to keep brass chips from affecting the next case. This is where my buddy comes in to make the stainless steel frame. We put rubber feet on both surfaces to stabilize the unit, and I added a rubber pad on the blunt end to minimize vibrations.
Here are some images of my completed $165 Poor Man's Giraud Trimmer:
HORIZONTAL:
VERTICAL:
BACK SIDE: (Here you can see the slots that were cut into the frame to allow adjustment of the height of the buffer)
It works great, and I couldn't be happier!!!