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wcb_gabe
12-01-2005, 05:17 AM
Hello fellow bullet casters or pb launchers,
I picked up the unit(commercial swager?) in the photos when I bought out another bullet business. Wasn't able to deal with the owner so I have no idea who made this unit. I'm hoping some of you casters especially you commercial casters have come across one of these in your travels. I'm hoping I can get a manual or find out who made it so I can hopefully get it into production. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Best Regards, Gabe
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c127/m_pact/swager.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c127/m_pact/swager2.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c127/m_pact/swager3.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c127/m_pact/swager4.jpg

Bret4207
12-01-2005, 07:41 AM
Look in the back of some of the older Handloaders Digest books. It looks familiar and that where I would have seen the photo I imagine.

7br
12-01-2005, 07:46 AM
Is it some kind of automatic lubrisizer?

scrapcan
12-01-2005, 11:11 AM
Have you thought about emailing corbin manufacturing and asking them what make/model/instructions might be available. It looks to me like it is a swaging machine. Are the dies removable?

It looks like the lead cores go in the top apparatus that then feeds then into and down the tube to the swage dies. Into the die for press swaging.

Or it could be an automated jacketed bullet swaging machine. Where the unformed jackets go into the top hopper/collator and then lead wire is put into the jackets some where along the process and voila yo have custom jacketed bullets.

It has been awhile since I was on the Corbin site but my memory thinks it saw something like this at their site.

PA Bullets
12-11-2005, 06:42 AM
It looks like a very old model Howell swage press
http://www.ammoload.com/mark-x.htm


http://www.bulletsmiths.info/board/viewtopic.php?t=157&highlight=auto+swage+press