If you could have a custom turret press made...

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I was looking at the old Hollywood presses and I got to thinking:

If you would have a custom turret press made, what features would you want it to have?

Reloading only?
Swaging capacity as well?
How many primer arms? 4?
How many dies in the turret? 8? 10? 12? More?
What die sizes? 7/8" only? 1 1/4? 1 1/2? Combination?
How long of a stroke? 6"? 8? More?
Bronze bushing or roller bearings or none?
Oil holes or grease fittings?
What other features?
 
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sixty9santa said:
I was looking at the old Hollywood presses and I got to thinking:

If you would have a custom turret press made, what features would you want it to have?

Reloading only?
Swaging capacity as well?
How many primer arms? 4?
How many dies in the turret? 8? 10? 12? More?
What die sizes? 7/8" only? 1 1/4? 1 1/2? Combination?
How long of a stroke? 6"? 8? More?
Bronze bushing or roller bearings or none?
Oil holes or grease fittings?
What other features?
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Zero run out. But with a turret press that will be impossible.
 
Could be made just like the knee of a Bridgeport.
Would also minimize wear if it were to be hard chrome plated, ground and lapped.
Should be within a thou for a very long time. Linear bearings could be implemented as well.
Turret head could use dowel pins that would be inserted and removed and the ball bearing would simply be for indexing.
 
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Yes, you are correct RePete, but what I was thinking was purely a turret unlike any currently made.
What features would be ideal?
I had the idea of combining these two with more modern features:
Minimum 12 head turret, 4 station primer turret for small+large+shotgun+50BMG, single shell carrier and front and rear support to eliminate flex:
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What's the attraction to the turret presses? I load 10 cals currently and have everything in Hornady LNL bushings and have converted my Rockchucker to take LNL equipped dies, best setup ever!!
 
Just wanted to know what everyone's ideal do all turret press would be!
I figured it would make for a good open discussion.
 
Doesnt make sense. To put that many turret positions on a head, the head would be huge, the positions would have to be further from the axis, making it that much more likely to tilt in hard sizing. The solution, a large central casting, would mean a turret like this would weigh what 40-50 pounds?

There are some excellent 6,7,8 station turret presses right now. Seven or 8 stations should allow at minimum 2 pistol caliber setups. The giant head could easily be more expensive than these excellent precision presses, which have solved the problem by making extra, easily switched turrets.
 
The press in the first image is 25" tall.
The second one is smaller and even that one came in at 45lbs.
Weight and size aside, they are cool and super sturdy.
They are used to this day for bullet swaging and reloading 50BMG and highly sought after south of the border because of this. Seen some of these sell for north 1000USD.
I was wondering what a do it all press would need feature wise, is all.
 
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Zero run out. But with a turret press that will be impossible.
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Taper roller bearings, with the die holes done in the same clamping operation as the bearing bore would get you very close to 0 clearance and 0 runout.

The dies themselves aren't nearly accurate enough that you should worry about it.
 
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