May 3, 2009 · A friend and I made a press for extruding lead wire from pure lead scrap. We used a big old style bottle jack (unknown rating), but had trouble pushing the lead though.

Aug 9, 2017 · Where do you buy lead wire for swaging? The cheapest I can find is RCECO for $78 per 25LB spool. I thought I saw someone in the vendor section selling lead spools at a …

Sep 22, 2008 · With the ridiculous price of lead wire, I was wondering if anyone out there other than the Corbin bros makes a die set to extrude your own lead wire? Corbin will not make a …

Mar 31, 2020 · The cast versions form into weight perfect cores as easily as the extruded versions did. And, I can make them (cast cores) much much faster than cranking on a press to squeeze …

Mar 29, 2018 · In another thread, I asked about sources for bulk lead wire. some of the responses discussed making the wire myself. Ideally, I would want to produce the wire myself in the long …

Jun 13, 2023 · I'm considering making my own lead core cutter tool for .185 lead wire. Anybody have close up pictures or good info on trying this?

Feb 15, 2019 · Ok so I decided to make a beafy lead wire extruder using a 50 ton hydraulic (12" stroke) combined with a 10k psi electric pump. The hydraulic will lay horizontally in some …

Feb 13, 2010 · The wire is not dead soft lead it is recycled range lead which was mostly round balls from muzzle loaders. I do need to rebuild the larger jack it was old and has leather seals …

Feb 14, 2024 · I have been talking to Richard Corbin about a hydraulic Swage Press. His top of the line swage press is the Hydraswage. It is massive and will handle all normal and …

Jul 30, 2021 · If you try it and it doesn't work, you probably will have a two piece press. This is the correct answer. The C-H presses were an answer to Jim Harvey's Jugular bullets. These were …