Swaging Wadcutters Part 01

Swaging cores into finished wadcutters

[@wildsilenthunter]

very nice work

[@dougkapounek9024]

Were do you get or make your cores ? Thanks

[@JimFleming1953]

KZbin took that video down, but the answer is that I make them myself with a 5 or 6 cylinder mould that I made. It's a LOT like an inline 6 cylinder engine, except that the pistons all come to top dead center at the same time, for ejection purposes...

[@jamesswallow730]

So that looks like Blackmon's press with some Corbin dies. I'd really like to know exactly all the components being used here. Please keep the videos up! They are very helpful.

[@JimFleming1953]

I have another couple of videos on here that shows a casting setup that I used to to make the cores from pure lead, and one that shows me swaging the overweight cores down to finished and proper weight.

[@jamesswallow730]

I meant the tooling you are using.

[@JimFleming1953]

Ah, my mistake. This is an old Corbin www.corbins (remove this and all spaces) .com Mitey Mite press, cast in bronze. The dies are built to match the press. I do believe they're 5/8x24 dies. I have two sets of dies, one in .224 diameter for rifle bullets, and the others are for making .357 diameter handgun bullets.

[@sniperdm]

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[@WaschyNumber1]

Air gun pellets would be nice.🤔 I wonder if it would be possible to make this swaging dies with 3d printed parts, like from abs or petg plastic, becourse plain lead is soft 🤔

[@JimFleming1953]

There's a lot of pressure in those dies, caused by moving lead. I would check the tensile strength of the lead material, then compare that to the tensile strength of the 3-D printed material

[@Sideshowbobx]

I tried it as failed with PETG,ABS, ASA, PLA+ on my Ender5 and quiet. Swaging produces too much force for the prints, either the lead sticks or blows the layer apart. This is a job for a lathe and not a FDM 3D printer - but it is manageable on home lathe.

[@cuonglon8650]

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[@nagaraj3950]

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[@rdkater]

youse metrik a lot nicer