Thread: Copper swaging
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Old 07-20-2011, 11:19 PM
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The area of a 14 cal is under .018 square inches so if your press can stand 500 pounds of load on the dies that makes about 27,000 psi on the copper in the die. I think it would probably end up any shape the die was. Larry
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