Making Copper Bullet Jackets: Machining Punching & Drawing Dies! Part 4

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We finish machining the threaded holes and dowel pin holes in the bottom half of the die, discuss a calculation error that a sharp-eyed viewer caught (thanks!), discuss some more tweaks to the overall design, then put the combined halves of the die body in the Emco lathe's 4 jaw check to test the runout with the dial indicator!
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Having been a long time shooter and reloader, I am undertaking my next project for my new Emco V13 lathe: Making Copper Bullet Jackets. The process steps are to blank a copper coin out of a strip of copper, cup it, then draw it in to progressively longer and thinner-walled shapes. The goal in this project is to end up with a 9MM jacket which will be about 0.6" long and 0.352" in diameter. That jacket can then be used in a swaging system (e.g. Corbin) and combined with a lead slug to make an actual bullet!
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