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If you really want to setup mass production on a Waterbury Farrel the WW2 Winchester manuals for running the production lines are online. They were written with the help of Frankford Arsenal and walk...

Bill,

Take a look at this site.

http://www.jamesriser.com/Machinery/MakingForm/Tool.html

A threading tool is a type of form tool.

Rick

An idea I had was to use the radius tool on the lathe to cut the radius on a tool rod, and then make that into a custom cutter to make a form tool. Then the laps would be easy to make using the...

It can actually be an improvement. The bullet bumps up in diameter on firing to the diameter of the barrel. Good for military use when shooting out of worn rifle and machine gun barrels.

British 303 bullets used aluminum,wood, wood pulp or plastic in the tip at various points in production. The goal was to move the center of balance back further in the bullet.

Is that the goal...

Valornor,

Thanks, I have seen the NYC CNC videos on the blanking dies. Not much experience in the Tool and Die machining

Rick

BT,

Are you using a separate point forming die and punch for the tips or using your current point former for the .50 cal with a special punch?

Could you just make a partial jacket that leaves...

At some point I would like to try to make some swaging dies. I am reading forum, read Rediscovering Swaging and some other texts on die design.

To make dies, other then a accurate lathe, what...

BTSniper,

What is the goal with the exposed lead tips? Just curious.

Rick

In 1941, using a transfer press a boattail punch for a .50 caliber bullet had a life of 60,000 pieces. The transfer press took 4 stations to form the completed boattail.

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Yes, it is interesting to see they took 10 steps to make .30 ball bullets in 1941. They would shape the jacket first using punches and dies to the profile and then drop in the lead ball. After...

I am new to posting to the forum but have been lurking for awhile. In doing research on swaging I came across this series of books on .30 and .50 cal ammunition production during WW2. It has some...