Guys,
I am an old fella ... retired and not so wealthy.
Among the things I did before being retired was to acquire a 13x40 lathe and a decent milling machine. The lathe has a 6 jaw Bison Set-Tru chuck so it can be quite accurate. Have good measuring tools. The mill is a full sized machine and is fitted with 3 axis DRO equipment. Have a rotary table and and indexer as well.
Picked up a Corbin press S press but none of the dies associated with swaging. (Makes a fine reloading press BTW.)
Have a source of CM gun barrel steel in 1 3/8" diameter all nice and annealed. Can do HT in computer controlled molten salt pots.
Am interested in making a set of swaging dies for the press. Want to make flat base JSPs for larger rifles ... particularly the .416 and .458s which are expensive to feed.
Would someone be kind enough to go through the "how the die set should work" in my Corbin? This would go a long way to help me understand what I'd have to do to make one.
In this kind of press, is the core swaged into the jacket with the bullet point down or up? What arrangement is needed to eject the projectile? How many steps/stages are needed to form the nose?
Also, who has relatively heavy jackets appropriate to boomers in these two calibers?
I REALLY appreciate the help! Thank you.