bet they could be made at home, too.
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Dennis <nojoeco@starband.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> 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
> >
> > "You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had but a
> > single throat, and I had my hands about it..." Rorschach, 1975
> >
> > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety
> > deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical
> Review
> > of Pennsylvania, 1759
> >
> > "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the
> > streets after them." Bill Vaughan
> >
> > "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
> > Plato
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
>
>
--
Nick A
"You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had but a
single throat, and I had my hands about it..." Rorschach, 1975
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review
of Pennsylvania, 1759
"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the
streets after them." Bill Vaughan
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
Plato
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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