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As a machinist, I can tell you adding grooves to a die to produce fins is absolutely possible (obviously) but could prove very difficult without professional equipment. You would need to have a...

Agreed, looks somewhat like a buttress but is definitely just a botched thread. Either a bad insert or grinding job on the cutter, or it wasn't on center, hard to say. Poor craftsmanship. Though I do...

I prefer A2 steel for this type of application, I haven't made any swage dies yet, but I'm a machinist by trade and have made other types of forming dies and of the metals I've worked with I find A2...

I was literally thinking about doing this for 32 rimfire

Beautiful, I'm hoping to make a die set to do this at some point in the future, (still have to machine the ram for my press though...), I assume the base more or less stays 0.08" thick?

No problem, I'm a machinist by trade so my life is all about making things faster/easier so I can make more money for my boss. Haha

Buy a cutter with or grind a concave rad on a cutter (aka form cutter) then just cut it with that and polish after? As long as you don't go to hard or abuse it it could even be good for making...

Just a thought, probably a little trickier, maybe for a lighter partition, use a short cup upside down inside the 22 case to cover/surround the lead? One might need another draw die to make it fit...

Not exactly a good business model... Richard won't sell to you because you didn't buy the press from him? Why should that matter? You'd think some of your money is better than none of your money......

5.7x28 is all but non-existant in canada from what I've seen.

I think you will be hard pressed to make a profit on them unless your time is worth nothing to you, and you're buying copper strip by the skid. The best price I've come across for making jackets from...

Copper plating aluminum suuucks, It's an extremely difficult metal to plate due to the speed in which it oxidizes, so you have to chemically remove the oxides and plate it simultaneously with another...

It can probably be done. But I wouldn't. For one its quite thin and forming it would make it even thinner making it very likely to peel away from the core upon firing. Also Aluminum produces one of...

I wrap in stainless foil to keep scale down but i have access to professional equipment (haven't made any dies yet but i use a2 at work for other jobs). I heat then let it sit until cool enough to...

You would have a hard time getting over 45 with 4140 as far as I can remember. You would be better off getting a true tool steel. A2 imo is your best bet easy to harden fairly stable dimensionally...

Nice work! I'd offer you 7.5x55 brass if I didn't reload it haha. (Yes the berdan stuff)

As far as I know they are quite different but I don't have the link on hand that I found the specs for them nor do I have my cad drawing of the ram for the H dies... I think the ejector pin body is...

The swage press I'm building currently is just that. I upsized the ram to 2 inch diameter and the guide rods as well (because I got them for free so I went with what I had) other than making the...

That's more or less what I thought the process was. I didn't really consider specific powder burn speeds but that makes sense especially when dealing with the unknowns that come with your own...

Greetings from the great white north! This will be my first post to the forum. So a little about myself I'm a ticketed machinist in Canada. I plan on building a swage press in the next week or two...