[gingery_machines] Re: Making bullet molds and casting your own bullets from scrap...

 

Corbin makes bullet swaging dies etc.
Their "kits" include core molds which make cylinders of whatever alloy is desired.
Then the cylinders are put through a simple extruder which is just a thick wall tube and piston with an orifice of the size wire required.
The swaging presses look like supersized reloading presses, and of course for more money you can also get automated equipment.
The real advantage to swaging bullets is of that you are free to add jackets of brass or copper.
I've already got the press tool for making jackets from spent .22's.

Again almost all of this tooling is lathe work. I've used a hydraulic press for anything beyond what a heavy reloading press would do.

--- In gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com, Nick Andrews <nickjandrews@...> wrote:
>
> Yeah, I do seem to recall that. But where the hell do you get lead wire
> from?
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Pierre Coueffin <pcoueffin@...>wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > My girlfriend's grandfather casts a lot of dwnrigger weights using
> > tire-weights. He uses 2-part steel molds, with alignment pins to
> > keep the halves from shifting. He likes to let the mold heat up over
> > the crucible of lead before pouring, to make the lead flow better.
> >
> > Did you see the article a year or so back about swaging bullets from
> > lead wire in either HSM or MW about a year back? It is very
> > interesting stuff.
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Nick A
>
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>
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> of Pennsylvania, 1759
>
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