Yes. People do it all the time. Casting cores is extremely common. Some guys don’t want to mess with hot lead. Just use soft lead.
Type: Posts; User: IllinoisCoyoteHunter
Forum: Swaging
Yes. People do it all the time. Casting cores is extremely common. Some guys don’t want to mess with hot lead. Just use soft lead.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
You’re welcome! Your collection is coming together nicely!
Forum: Swaging
Yes absolutely. You want the brass as clean as possible before derimming. I like to tumble in SS and run in the ultra sonic. I do this process twice. If you dont get enough of the priming compound...
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Air cylinder size becomes a variable depending on how much output pressure you have. The pressure to push the case through generally stays the same but your success will vary if your equipment isn’t...
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Too many variable really. Diameter of the sizing die, entrance geometry of the sizing die, diameter of the punch, and variations in wall thickness with various headstamps are a few variables.
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It’s not hard when you make them on a cnc grinder lol
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6 years of silence? This thread isn’t even a year old lol. Yes they can be made. They have been made. There’s several ways to skin a cat. I was going to try to get a handful of people in on a group...
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No problem! Nick is an awesome guy to deal with.
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Point form die, 1/2 of it. Polished up and ready for grind. I still have to make the mating straight-walled portion and heat treat and hone it.
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Core swage and core seat dies ready for...
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If the punch was made for rimfire jackets it probably won’t work for commercial jackets. We really need more info.
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Are you using the correct punch? Cores might be too light for the jacket too.
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You are camming over when seating the cores, right?
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You also might not be seating the cores enough to swell the jacket for a snug fit in the die.
Forum: Special Projects
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Here’s mine. The 2 mating parts having radii so they “roll” and find center using a piloted reamer.
Forum: Swaging
I’ve bumped both .40 cal and .44 cal jacketed bullets up to .453 in my lead bullet swage dies quite easily on my swage press.
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We’d have to garner up some more interest and get a few more guys interested. If no one else is interested I might sell mine after my die is finished.
Forum: Special Projects
The outer covering will be metal but I will have a 1” thick layer of ceramic fiber blanket in between the firebrick and sheet metal. It will not be an oxygen free oven. Being that most all my swage...
Forum: Special Projects
I’m in the process of building a heat treat oven. Specs : 120V, 10.9 Ohms, 11 AMPS, 1320 Watts, 3.17W per sq cm surface load on wire (16 ga Kanthal), Internal dimensions 7”Wide x 4” Tall x 12.5” Deep...
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You absolutely could. But each process still adds heat and distortion is possible. Not to mention gas nitriding is expensive.
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Probably A2. It holds tolerances better in heat treat than most tools steels. You can machine closer to final dimensions without worry of it moving much in HT, which means less work post heat treat. ...
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I get my O6 from work. It’s off fall from a job we regularly run. It’s getting harder and harder to find.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |