Homemade swaging press

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Been wanting one for a while, but didn't feel like shelling out $1k for Corbin's big press and waiting a year of two for it to show up. Started making swaging dies for the reloading press, but quickly found that it didn't have the steam to do what I wanted to do. Came across nice plans for a swagging press on the Cast Boolits forum, so I decided to build one.

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It's pretty big (27" tall), bigger than either of the Corbins large presses. There is a setting for swagging and one for reloading and the top plate is threaded 1 1/2"-12, so 50 BMG can be reloaded on it. Actually, given the clearance and the potential force this thing can put out, even bigger cartridges can be loaded on it, and of course bullets are no longer an issue. Maybe it's time to start looking for a PTRD-41...

Will start working on some dies as soon as I get caught up on all the chores I neglected doing while I was building it. :rolleyes:
 
Looks like there is no limit to the talent in this forum.

One member built his own rotary tumbler and I thought that was really neat.

Another fellow cut down the barrel on his 6 inch S&W revolver to 4.25" and you couldn't tell from his pictures that all he used was a hacksaw, drill, a file
and good old-fashioned common sense.

But your press is something else. Outstanding! Congrats!
 
Thanks guys! Yeah, I definitely need to find something solid to mount it on. May end up making some kind of stand for it. It is a monster!

I'm going to make some bullets for my 6mm and 308 for sure. Probably some 9mm/.357 handgun bullets and I've been thinking about a high BC 8mm bullet for use in a wildcat based on .338 Lapua.

I have a lot of work to do on the dies though. I had just started toying with a few things on the Co-Ax before I came across these plans. I made a simple de-rimming die for it:

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.22 WMR case de-rimmed and sized, lead fishing sinker, sinker after being pushed through the die, one that I trimmed the flash off of and copper plated.

I made a spoon cutter from a carbide glass drill bit I picked up at the hardware store by grinding one side off of it with a diamond Dremel cutting disk.

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Tested in in a piece of scrap material, then pushed a sinker into it with a piece of bar stock. It was undersized and lead flowed around it, but I ended up with a nicely shaped ogive and the finish was pretty good. No polishing was done to the "die". Should work well for both pistol and rifle hunting bullets.
 
kombayotch said:
Actually, given the clearance and the potential force this thing can put out, even bigger cartridges can be loaded on it, and of course bullets are no longer an issue. Maybe it's time to start looking for a PTRD-41...
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Hey, I've got a PTRD that I havent fired yet. We should talk:)
 
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