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With the little machine shop bed extension (later on in the future) I believe I could fit a AR Barrel in between the head and tail stock. If I can do that I'll be extremely happy. Either way I'll be...

Whew I'd love to have one that big but not enough wallet lol.

I took the plunge and bought the 7x12 harbor freight mini lathe. It was $510 shipped so now I wait for the brown Santa to bring it....

Same here.... there are no good cheap used ones locally. They are all large units that either look like junk or are way to expensive.

I still have time so I'll shop around but if I do get a...

I'm going to try them out in one of my S&W 625 revolvers chambered in 45 acp first. Then I'll slowly work them up to 1200 fps using the same revolver but loaded to 45 Super/460 Rowland. If they...

At this point I'm not even $100 into this adventure and already producing decent bullets. I'm extremely happy with the way these turned out. So for a $500 investment into a 7"x12" mini lathe and...

The biggest problem I have with a drill press is getting stuff perfectly centered. Even the stem I made was just the smallest amount off I had to lap that into the adjusting stem. I know there are...

I've seen this done on other forums and YouTube but aren't masonary bits just carbide tipped?

I'm actually looking into buying a harbor freight mini lathe for at home. It is pretty hard to do this stuff at my buddy's place and have all my reloading stuff at home. To be honest all the stuff I...

I'm not sure what you mean. The place I bought them from sells them in .500, .580, and .680 lengths. I just bought .500 and .580 and I haven't messed with the .580 yet.

Well I messed around today and finished a die using a 308 Winchester. First I lapped the inside to get the diameter to .453". I just used a 7/16" oak dowel and valve lapping compound. It didn't take...

I haven't heard back from Corbin. He was supposed to email me a invoice and I never received it. So I'm waiting to hear back from Crown on the diameters they offer and go from there.

So crown metals just called me back and they can sell me a 50 lbs spool for $126 shipped. The only thing I'm not sure about is she said they have 99.997% pure lead corroding wire and 3/4% antimony...

Zbench told me this afternoon that he isn't making or selling any right now because of the cold.

Yeah last time I saw it on gunbroker was when I first posted this thread.

Richard Corbin just emailed me back and told me he has two rolls of .420" lead wire and that he is also going out of business. Once he sells everything there will be no more. So I ordered both rolls.

McMaster is way expensive and only 1/4".

Still waiting for answer back from Zbench. Richard Corbin emailed me back this morning and he sells 25 lbs for $76 shipped. Hawke is $145 for 45 lbs...

I have..... just waiting on a reply back. His sale posts for lead wire are pretty old that's why I wasn't sure.

Is there other sources for lead wire other then corbin? I see a place online called rotometal but they are even more expensive then corbin. I'd rather use lead wire than dealing with casting my own...

I didn't see this posted anywhere so I figured I'd share.

I took the Lee 50 bmg extension and cut the shell holder portion off. Then drilled it out and tapped it for 1/2-20". The stud that is in...

Here is my new design for my swaging punches. Just made the punch smaller and to stay in the neck.

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Yeah we have thought that too. We are going to see how one goes and then decide. I tried calling hornady and asking what type of steel they use but no one would tell me. All I was told it is a...

One thing I'm curious about is instead of making multiple die bodies to swage different bullets what about making one die body with a ID of .453 or .454 but a perfect cylinder. Basically a core swage...

I do plan on starting with the dies I now have. They are 243 Winchester, 308 Winchester, and 257 Roberts. My buddy is going to play with the 257 Roberts die and bore it to .454" and then he is going...

Yes it does! Thank you so much! I took it to work with me today and couldn't even get a 1"-14 bolt to go in. At that point I was stumped. Thank again!

I still plan to move forward with making/modifying my own dies. I'll be sure to document my progress and post it here so others have a step by step guide if they want to try it. There are other posts...