Brass prep Service

[triceratops3]

I posted this in the forsale section but didn't get too much response so I guess I'd try here too.

I would like to offer a brass swaging service to the members of the hide. I would deprime and swage the primer pocket on brass with crimped primer pockets using a Dillon super swage 600. But I first wanted to see if there was any interest in this from everyone here. Would you want someone to deprime, and swage your primer pockets on military brass? I am also not set on any price as of yet. Maybe around $.05/ case?

please provide your thoughts on this (if you would or would not use this service) and also possibly provide a price you would pay.

For now this would only be to swage the primer pockets but if i can get enough interest/ capital together I would like to make this pretty much full service by adding annealing, and cleaning in stainless steel media. Also trimming and full length sizing for popular calibers such as .223/5.56 and .308/7.62 and maybe a few others once I have the equipment needed.

Thanks.

 

[gimpy]

You'll go nuts trying to swage massive amounts of brass that way. Look in to using a 1050 to do it all.

 

[triceratops3]

Thanks for the input. I have thought about that. But 100$ compared to $1700 is a huge difference. I don't really have that much to start up and get one.

 

[Pinecone]

The problem is, for paying you to do 2000 pieces of brass, one can buy their own Super Swager and keep on going.

And at 0.05 each, you won't be making a lot of money.

 

[gimpy]

I had considered doing the same thing a while ago, and it doesn't make sense economically after you do the math. I run a 1050 with the trimmer, stainless tumbler, Giraud annealer, and I still can't make that make sense at .10 per piece. The time is a killer. Figure 45 minutes to tumble 500, 30 minutes to process it, and then 3 hours to stainless tumble the brass. That's over 4 hours of work, if you're lucky, for $50 @ .10 each. Sure, you can speed the operation up, but you can only anneal so fast, and process so fast. If you're hell-bent on it, pm me, I have the domain to host the site, you can have it from me.

 

[triceratops3]

That is true that for the price of 2k pieces someone could buy their own. I was never set on that price but some people hate doing any prep on brass so I wanted to get an idea of what people thought. And .05$ each isn't a whole lot of money but with the super swager it shouldn't take too long.

Thanks for all the replies gimpy. But the majority of those 4+ hours is time the brass spends in the tumbler. I wouldn't really count that time because you can be working on other brass during the time or just watching tv. Same with the annealing, if you use a giraud machine it's pretty much automatics and you can be performing other tasks while that's running.. Just full it up when it gets empty. If I could get enough interest I'd love to be able to get the giraud annealer, a Dillion 1050, and a large ss tumbler (homemade or commercial) with this setup, probably 500-1000 cases/hour could be doable.

Truth is, I'm a pretty broke college student looking to make a few bucks by doing something some people might now want to do themselves. Be it they don't like to do it or have more money than time. Because right now I have much more time than money.

What domain do you have? If I could get a good setup running a website might be an interesting thing to have.