Hello gentlemen:
Three years ago I started this thread and wanted to make bullet jackets. I still want to make bullet jackets and for the same reasons.
I was gone because the school where I work went nuts on my time. After I got back from China, I was swamped for three years in a row building a brand new degree program at the college from scratch. We now have a CNC Machinist program which I built from the ground up based on industry needs. This was so much work I had zero time for anything else at all in my life. Now that it is running smoothly and successfully, here I am back to make bullets from nothing.
Bohica, I bought a punch press! Yay, and such a deal. $25 in a thrift store. Yay thrift stores. This is a tiny little floor model punch press. It weighs about 500 pounds. I may convert it to hydraulic to get more stroke. This one only moves 1 inch.
The lead extrusion press has the frame welded up and the extrusion die material is in the lathe right now.
Sorry I have been away, duty called and I had to answer.
Barry