Ha! In a self satisfied way.
I was looking at a popular bullet feeder to glue onto my 650 as I want to produce as many rounds with as little effort and as quickly as possible. I reload to shoot [cheaply], I do not shoot to reload.
Well in all my surfing I stumbled across a widget called the Crimson Bullet Collator, apparently no longer made. It was ostensibly a parts kit that allowed you to build a bullet collator which looked remarkably similar to a popular version being sold.
So, I thought to myself, if someone can build an Ike@ parts kit bullet feeder then why can't I? So I started with a few cardboard templates, bought some HDPE plastic and got out the router.
This is [hopefully] the final prototype. IT WORKS. The bullet plate turns, the slider plate thingy pushes upside down bullets out, the flipper thing flips them and the hole to drop them into the tube is in the right place.
I need some more HDPE and I should have a fully functional shiny one dropping bullets into primered, powder filled cases by next week. And no, I did not want to build one out of an old L*we's bucket.
The big questions: How much? Answer: I should have 2 fully functioning ones for just about around $140 including all the protoyping costs.
Worth it? Answer: I enjoy building things and solving problems and now I can make one of these anytime.