Other then Corbin’s equipment , the CHP-1 hydraulic press or his manual presses , does anyone else own equipment to make their own jackets with , any other type of press and dies ?
I’ve got a older model chp-1 I’ve been using to make my own bullets and a flat strip jacket maker set up . It does make great stuff but I’ve wondered what the next step up in production is , if there was anything a little more automated in the process that anyone has come up with or engineered themselves short of trying to compete against the big guys with huge automated multi-operational presses that run by computers .
I know from my own experience even when times were great in the last few years there are limited sources for jackets that aren’t always available when you want them , that’s why I got into it anyway , that and the cool factor , plus I was buying them anyway .
I wondered what everyone else did for a source .. do you make your own jackets or just shoot cast or started powder coating them ... even if there was enough need for more sources but with the price of raw materials then labor involved I’m not sure they could be made cheaper even made by the 10,000s as it just costs so much even with automation , then the investment becomes unreasonable for the return ?
I know that from the stand point of making them myself ,with the amount of labor involved going from multiple operations drawing them , that’s there is a fair amount of handling that goes into just one jacket doing it how I am currently .
Guess I was wondering how the rest of you are going at it and if there’s any type of equipment that I hadn’t discovered yet ? If you had had problems finding jackets when you’ve needed them and how you feel about the going costs of those copper jackets and if availability has been a unwelcome factor now making Swaging a limited undertaking , like assembled ammo wasn’t bad enough .