Thread: Making a Swaging Press

Originally Posted by Friwi

So you can't stage on a normal press? Are they too weak?

You can do some swaging on good quality reloading presses but only small caliber easy stuff. Forget trying it with something like a lee press. For working on larger stuff, you need a stronger press. Plus all the dies are designed for this type of press and wont work on a normal reloading press.

This design has a reloading mode (longer stroke than the swaging mode and add a case holder adaptor to the ram) So I will be able to use it for that if whatever im loading wont fit in my lee.
This design is overkill, it could be about 20% smaller and still have enough travel and power for swaging but the other guys that have built this design seem happy with it, so I just copied the plans and converted them to metric. Plus I had a lot of the steel on hand already.