Making My Own Swage Press

[GASwager]

I am planning on building my own swage press and was wondering if there would be any interest from the masses in buying a couple if I made a few?

I have a bunch of material lying around and thought Id put it to use!

[grumman581]

It would probably depend upon the price you were selling them for.

[GASwager]

It would probably depend upon the price you were selling them for.

I will have to figure up material cost. I dont have an immediate use for it right now but cant afford to give it away either. Ill figure it out and let you know.

[farmerjim]

I also would be interested , depending on the price. Let me know once you have it figured out.

[kd185]

why plan or design are you going to use?

[boltaction308]

I would be interested

[plus1hdcp]

Possible interest here too

[GASwager]

Ok guys. Ill be building one soon. Once its done and perfected Ill post details. Trying to get in touch with 45Nut about Vendor status.

[ohnomrbillk]

I'd be interested

[MUSTANG]

Design?

Mustang

[grumman581]

Just curious... How many pounds of force do the swage presses generate? More than the HF arbor presses that people buy for making gas checks? Yeah, I know that it takes more force to swage bullets than it does to make a gas check, but I'm just curious how much the swage presses compare in the amount of force they can generate.

[GASwager]

To put it bluntly. ALOT.

[BT Sniper]

Trying to get in touch with 45Nut about Vendor status.

Very good idea and smart of you. As per the rules of the Swapping and Selling forum should one wish to sell items for "commercial" or "volume" based business venture a Vendor Sponsor membership is required.

Good luck in your endeavors!

Good shooting and Swage on!

BT

[deltaenterprizes]

Look in the stickys for a press made by aneat

[GASwager]

It will be a while before I have a prototype built. I will be taking bits from a couple designs and fine tuning. It will most likely resemble aneats design with some changes. Props to him. Its a sound design.

To clarify I will not be taking anyones money until I have a finished product.

[GASwager]

Thank you, BT.

[huntnman]

will be watching this.

[woody13]

Id be interested as well....

[GASwager]

Seems like theres a good bit of interest. I dont have all the materials I need so I will be sourcing those as soon as I can.

[marvelshooter]

Just curious... How many pounds of force do the swage presses generate? More than the HF arbor presses that people buy for making gas checks? Yeah, I know that it takes more force to swage bullets than it does to make a gas check, but I'm just curious how much the swage presses compare in the amount of force they can generate.
Your typical small arbor press is rated at 1/2 or 1 ton. I made a swage press for .224 bullets from a 16000 pound in line toggle clamp. I don't know what force I need I am glad I bought the biggest one I could find.

[grumman581]

Your typical small arbor press is rated at 1/2 or 1 ton. I made a swage press for .224 bullets from a 16000 pound in line toggle clamp. I don't know what force I need I am glad I bought the biggest one I could find.

Could you post a photo of that?

[marvelshooter]

Could you post a photo of that?
Sorry I took so long. I did not have a picture of this in the camera. The clamp is a Destaco #650 rated at 16000 pounds that I bought on evil-bay for $55 and it is mounted to a 3/4" steel plate. The plate was flexing a little so I welded it to a piece of 3" square tubing. 30/06 round for scale. 78870

[brstevns]

Any update I know this is a old post

[grumman581]

Sorry I took so long. I did not have a picture of this in the camera. The clamp is a Destaco #650 rated at 16000 pounds that I bought on evil-bay for $55 and it is mounted to a 3/4" steel plate. The plate was flexing a little so I welded it to a piece of 3" square tubing. 30/06 round for scale.

I'm surprised something that size can produce that much pressure. It just didn't look like the leverage was there for creating 16,000 pounds of pressure.

[salpal48]

It is always of interest. . I'm sure after showing a prototype there will be a lot of Interest.
Sal

[huntnman]

OP GASwager's last activity was 10/08/2013. Guess this thread is dead.