Dillon Super Swage - fully converted.

[anothernewb]

Well, call me a convert. After collecting a significant pile of range pickup. I now moved onto removing the military crimps. Started out using the RCBS case prep center I had. which admittedly works okay. but is rather slow, and the fingers do get tired grinding them away.

I happened to see the super swage on the shelf on Sunday, on sale no less - for $100. so I thought why not.

The why not should really be "why didn't I do that a whole lot sooner".
The swager is #2 (just barely) behind the progressive press in terms of speed and simplification of reloading. Wow. I processed a milk jug of 223 in the same time as I could have done perhaps 50 cases the old way even without the "auto" modifications.

 

[AK Hunter]

I bought the RCBS bench swage, it works great. The super swage's were too expensive back then.

 

[Jerry M]

Dillion Super Swager and power trimmer was some of the best money I spent on reloading. ~30 years ago, still going strong.

 

[sevt_chevelle]

Add a rubber band to it....auto eject.
There are few people that sell case inserts for the SS.
Just a plastic reverse mold of a case that fits inside, aligns the case up with the rods.

 

[dcloco]

Well, call me a convert. After collecting a significant pile of range pickup. I now moved onto removing the military crimps. Started out using the RCBS case prep center I had. which admittedly works okay. but is rather slow, and the fingers do get tired grinding them away.

I happened to see the super swage on the shelf on Sunday, on sale no less - for $100. so I thought why not.

The why not should really be "why didn't I do that a whole lot sooner".
The swager is #2 (just barely) behind the progressive press in terms of speed and simplification of reloading. Wow. I processed a milk jug of 223 in the same time as I could have done perhaps 50 cases the old way even without the "auto" modifications.

Do NOT search for LEE APP on this website. Do NOT! You have been warned!!!

 

[SnowBlaZeR2]

Do NOT search for LEE APP on this website. Do NOT! You have been warned!!!

I'll take the Super Swage over the APP any day.

 

[dcloco]

I'll take the Super Swage over the APP any day.

Have you tried the APP?

 

[SnowBlaZeR2]

Have you tried the APP?

I own the APP. It's fine, but it's no Super Swage.

 

[anothernewb]

buy once cry once. seems to have served me well in reloading... aside from emptying the fun money account that is.

 

[Bassfishing54]

I found the super swage to slow and went with the swage it, when sizing and trimming new range brass. I keep the super swage on the bench for when I find a tight primer pocket, which allows me to do the occasional case when loading. I keep my brass separated, with what I have already swaged and the new range brass I acquire, so I only have to swage new range brass.

I use my Dillon xl650 with a tool head setup with the sizing die, the "swage it" and the Dillon electric trimmer, as I usually do large batches of range brass. I just move the trimmer between caliber tool heads. The trimming and sizing die never get changed, unless I need to make an adjustment.

If I need to trim a batch of brass that has already been swaged, I don't even bother with installing the Swage it.

Since I wet tumble with pins after trimming the pins remove the mouth burrs and the lube is removed with dawn and lemy shine, it eliminates a lot of steps and time. It used to take me several hours to perform each step for swaging, trimming, chamfering the mouths and I still had to run them through the 650 to size. Now I do 4 steps in one pass on the autoloader and do not handle each piece individually. Yes being retired I have the time, but the time savings allows for more fishing, hunting, grandkids and of course mama.

 

[dcloco]

I own the APP. It's fine, but it's no Super Swage.

So do I.

 

[SnowBlaZeR2]

So do I.

Cool. Sounds like we have different opinions about it.

 

[GW Staar]

I have the RCBS version similar to the Super swage. Like it fine, but the APP is faster, thanks to the case feeder. I will say that you need to read the directions that came with the APP swage tool better than I did at first. I thought it was worthless compared to a dedicated bench swager, until I discovered it was me not the APP that was at fault.

Too bad RCBS and Dillon didn't think of designing case fed case prep tools. Course Dillon did make the 1050 that does it all, including swaging.....but it's a bit out of my price range.

 

[Highland Lofts]

I have three Dillion SS
One set up for small primer pockets
One set up for large primer pockets
And an extra one.

I have two of the RCBS pocket die sets, totally garbage in my opinion.they are so bad in my opinion I wouldn't even give them away.

 

[anothernewb]

I will admit that lee APP is a pretty neat setup. I was unaware of it's existence. I may just get one to play with it.