floodgate
10-03-2007, 11:21 PM
Guys:
With the help of a couple of the "brethren" (thanks, Sundog and Larry) and an acquisition from the Reloaders Auction site, I am suddenly hip-deep in a variety of bullet swaging tools, dies and supplies, with more coming in. Now swaging isn't REALLY about "Cast Boolits", with all its pre-drawn lead wire, copper half- and full-length jackets, etc,. etc. BUT, Lyman back in the '60's - when swaging was in its prime - made a set of adjustable moulds for casting cylindrical swaging cores, in .22 (0.168" dia.), .30 (0.239"), .38 (0.316"), .44 (0.392") and .45 (0.409"). Here is a photo of three in .30, .38 and .44:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v317/floodgate/P1010008-1.jpg;
two gotten here in years past, one at a local gun show. Being a total "bug" about complete sets, I would like to add the .22 and .45 versions, especially as Sundog has provided me with half-jacket swaging dies for both .45 ACP (0.452") and the older-size .45 Colt (0.454") and the C-H Swag-O-Matic press to exercise them in. The .22 core mould, I'll admit, I "need" just to round out the set. These are older "IDEAL / MIDDLEFIELD"-marked moulds on the original small single-cavity blocks, are just marked "22 S", "30 S", etc., etc. with the only other markings being the usual small pair of block-matching numbers, and have the added threaded plate held by two screws to the base of one block, with a threaded stem, hex lock-nut and bore-sized cylindrical plug, as in the r/h mould above.
SO, to recap, does anyone here have examples marked "22 S" and/or "45 S" they would be willing to part with for a reasonable sum?
I also have - from Reloaders Auction - a C-H .38/.357 die set for the Harvey zinc-washer base Prot-X-Bore SWC, with a small bag of the washers - this set with a different arrangement of the dies intended to be used in a standard reloading press; does anyone have a spare, serviceable example of the old aluminum-framed red C-H "C" press they'd be willing to part with?
As if I didn't have enough stuff to play with already.....
floodgate
With the help of a couple of the "brethren" (thanks, Sundog and Larry) and an acquisition from the Reloaders Auction site, I am suddenly hip-deep in a variety of bullet swaging tools, dies and supplies, with more coming in. Now swaging isn't REALLY about "Cast Boolits", with all its pre-drawn lead wire, copper half- and full-length jackets, etc,. etc. BUT, Lyman back in the '60's - when swaging was in its prime - made a set of adjustable moulds for casting cylindrical swaging cores, in .22 (0.168" dia.), .30 (0.239"), .38 (0.316"), .44 (0.392") and .45 (0.409"). Here is a photo of three in .30, .38 and .44:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v317/floodgate/P1010008-1.jpg;
two gotten here in years past, one at a local gun show. Being a total "bug" about complete sets, I would like to add the .22 and .45 versions, especially as Sundog has provided me with half-jacket swaging dies for both .45 ACP (0.452") and the older-size .45 Colt (0.454") and the C-H Swag-O-Matic press to exercise them in. The .22 core mould, I'll admit, I "need" just to round out the set. These are older "IDEAL / MIDDLEFIELD"-marked moulds on the original small single-cavity blocks, are just marked "22 S", "30 S", etc., etc. with the only other markings being the usual small pair of block-matching numbers, and have the added threaded plate held by two screws to the base of one block, with a threaded stem, hex lock-nut and bore-sized cylindrical plug, as in the r/h mould above.
SO, to recap, does anyone here have examples marked "22 S" and/or "45 S" they would be willing to part with for a reasonable sum?
I also have - from Reloaders Auction - a C-H .38/.357 die set for the Harvey zinc-washer base Prot-X-Bore SWC, with a small bag of the washers - this set with a different arrangement of the dies intended to be used in a standard reloading press; does anyone have a spare, serviceable example of the old aluminum-framed red C-H "C" press they'd be willing to part with?
As if I didn't have enough stuff to play with already.....
floodgate