Swage-It

[memilanuk]

Anyone here have experience with the Swage-It press-mounted tools, either on a 550 or 650? Specifically looking at processing mixed 5.56 brass.

I've got experience with various other tools, both swaging and reaming, not looking to upgrade to a 1050... so keep it to just the Swage-It (and similar designs, if applicable) please.

 

[Sheldon N]

Having just processed 2k pieces of 556 brass a few weeks ago on a 1050, my recommendation is to buy 1x fired LC brass from Airborne6.8 here on the forums. When you can have someone else do it for you and the cost is only $100 for 1k pieces, it's just not worth doing it yourself.

 

[memilanuk]

Probably not, in an absolute sense.

But... having purchased "100% processed" brass in the past, let's just say my trust in those claims is a little damaged and leave it at that. There's a *reason* I have several thousand pieces of brass that needs gone thru...

 

[SkyScrapin]

I'll echo the above posters. Processed brass in my experience is only cleaned brass.. even the stuff that's supposed to be reload ready.. Saying that, I still buy cleaned 1x fired lake city brass, but I crank it through a SwageIt on a XL650. My 2 cents - buy the SwageIt.

 

[Skunkworx]

This is relevant to my interests. I’ve got a couple 5 gallon buckets of LC that needs their primer pockets swaged. So I’ve been looking at the swageit for my 650 too.

I know Dillon says it’ll void the warranty but I can’t find any info about someone actually damaging their press with a swageit.

 

[memilanuk]

Saying that, I still buy cleaned 1x fired lake city brass, but I crank it through a SwageIt on a XL650.

That was kind of what I was hoping to do - set up the Swage-It and a trim/size/expand tool head and run everything for mag-length ammo thru it to take it from 'mil-spec' to 'my spec'.

I know Dillon says it’ll void the warranty but I can’t find any info about someone actually damaging their press with a swageit.

I haven't either. I've seen more than one post where people (who actually used one) compared the force involved (from the operator stand point) as being roughly equivalent to seating a tight-fitting primer. And I would have to think that even as ham-fisted as I can sometimes be, I'd probably stop before leaning on it hard enough to break it.

 

[whiskeysierra762]

I use one on my 650. I will set the Swage-it up and then I have a tool head just for prepping 556 brass. I use a universal decapper die, swage, then trim with the RT1500, then neck size with a tapered expander ball. Once I process all the brass I swap tool heads to my loading toolhead and put the priming seater back in. Works great and Im glad I didn't spend the big bucks on the 1050 just to have the swage station.

 

[Rover31]

@milanuk just great thanks I just bought a Dillon super swage, now what am I supposed to do with it?

 

[memilanuk]

@Rover31 save it for in case this grand experiment doesn't pan out as planned?