[Alex]

I just got back from the East Grand Forks Cabelas where I bought a brand new .400 Corbon Pro Swage kit for $90. I guess they retail for $329 so I did pretty good I think. Has anyone been using one of these, it's the type R die that will work in the Rockchucker.

[Nero Steptoe]

What is a .400 Cor-Bon Pro Swage Kit? All I ever used for loading .400 Cor-Bon were regular ol' .400 Cor-Bon dies @ about $18.00.

[EchoSixMike]

You mean "corbin"? The do it yourself bullet making folks? They give you jackets and lead wire for swaging, right? S/F...Ken M

[Frohickey]

You mean, this (http://www.corbins.com/proswage.htm)?
http://www.corbins.com/images/pro-kit.jpg

You can make these lead bullets http://www.corbins.com/images/ad-knurl.jpg
http://www.corbins.com/images/ad-bg1.jpg
or these jacketted bullets http://www.corbins.com/images/swc7-lg.jpg

I hope you have a very sturdy and stable bench.
The times I used my RockChucker to just make 224 caliber jackets, I ended up breaking the punch. Seems you need a really stable bench, or else the punch gets misaligned.

[Alex]

I'm in the process of making a bench to hold my reloading gear. I made the top out of jointed and planed face glued pine boards, the top is done and it's 3 1/2" thick 24" wide and 6 feet long. Must way about 100 lbs. I'm making the base from 3x3 pine mortised and tennoned together. Underneath all of this I'm building a large cabinet with drawers out of 3/4" MDF, all in all my guess is the whole setup will way 300 lbs without all of my reloading junk in it, hopefully that will be enough. Those are beautiful pictures did you take them?

[Nero Steptoe]

I still don't understand how ".400 Cor-Bon" relates to this thread! What am I missing?

[Frohickey]

Not my pictures. Those are the pictures off the Corbin website.

Its not a 400 Corbon, as in loaded ammunition or gun. Its a 40 caliber (10mm) bullet swaging die.

Swaging is forming using heavy pressure, as opposed to casting, which is forming using high temperatures. The last way would be to lathe, which is forming using high speed. :D

One thing about lead wire, at $20 for 10lbs, its not the cheapest way to get lead, but it certainly is safest. The other way is to cast lead cores, using a core mold, and a lead pot, but that involves high temperatures too, and at that point, you might as well cast. The only thing casting cannot do is do jacketted bullets.

[Alex]

I'm sorry my mistake, I meant to write Corbin, I've also grown used to the Corbon company and it shows I guess. I can't wait to get home to try it out.

[Wil Terry]

as we must get half of CORBIN's calls here at CORBON. It just amazes me sometimes how they keep right on asking about swaging dies etc after I've said ' you called the wrong place'.
I may hafta send Dave Corbin a bill for services rendered.