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Oh dear, darn or words to that effect. 
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Damn, that was expensive!
What caliber? And what sort of alloy where you swaging?
_________ BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan) =>/ ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/qclHjMQ.jpg)
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Don't scare me, tell me you were using hydraulics and not an arbor press  . Made at Springfield Armory and single heat-treated?
MP Sadly Deceased as of 2/17/2014
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Thats a Dave Corbin 22 calibre die and seating a 46.5 grain lead core into a rimfire jacket with a corbin Mity Mite press. Bit too much pressure and should have known better as I have been using that die for around fifteen to twenty years so can't complain.
If you look at the die where the threads are its a different colour and looks as though lubricant has been leaking into a crack there. I wonder if it had already started to fail there and was waiting to happen. Regards, Roly.
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I recognized the die maker. I used to swage a lot of .45-550s and I always worried about breaking one. They are very expensive and the down time would have been extensive.
_________ BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan) =>/
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