Webley MKVI

belgmart · Post by **belgmart** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:31 pm

If you have a lathe, making a rim swaging tool can't be too hard - all you need is essentially a decently-sized steel block with a centered hole that will accept the case body, and a rim recess at the bottom spec'd just a bit thinner than whatever you need.

1. Insert case from the bottom and put on a hard steel surface,

2. then whack (hard) with a (large) hammer, and the rim is swaged. Sometimes you need to repeat the hammer treatment a few times...

3. remove case, insert new one and repeat.

I have just such a tool for converting 32-20 cases to .310 cadet. Works a treat! It is rather loud though...

awo425 · Post by **awo425** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 7:46 am

I just tested the tool , no need to turn off the lathe, when changing the cases, so converting them is real fast, first turning down the rim and than cutting to lenght