Wamadet loading press instructions, anybody?

[tacfoley]

Just found this in a local junk st- sorry, antiques boutique, with some dies - look like .308 win by Lee, and a bunch of accessories that look like punches and dies for sizing. It's a mite rusty in places, but as tight as a very tight thing and operates very smoothly, if only I could figure out quite what it operated as. It seems to work ass-about face, with the op handle being pulled up, rather than pushed down.

Anyhow, even if I can't figure out how it works, it's a tenner well spent if only for the craic.

So, instructions, anybody, who can scan them and send me a set?

TIA.

[loiner1965]

https://www.scribd.com/document/3247...DET-Portapress

[tacfoley]

https://www.scribd.com/document/3247...DET-Portapress

Thank you, Sir.

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[loiner1965]

Thank you, Sir.

Tried that site, and registered.

Then I tried that site, and registered.

Then I tried that site, and registered....

I'm sure you get the point I'm trying to make here..

Oh dear
Ring helston GUN shop as he still sells and supplies these presses

[DesG]

Wamadet presses were made by my old mate John Ellis in Barsnstaple in the seventies and eighties. In his free time he was busy making a jet powered helicopter from scratch with jet ducts on the rotor tips. I don't believe he ever finished that one. I would think he'd be in his eighties by now.

I still have a practice hand grenade which fired 38 or 12bore blanks with a pneumatic timer. Very clever but rather overcomplicated.

I still have and use a couple of his presses from the eighties which are very sturdy solid steel structures which will last a lifetime or two. I even have a swaging set to fit on the press which makes 38 wadcutters from lead wire.

He deliberately made his loading stuff very simple and soldier proof so I wouldn't have thought you'd need instructions to get it working Tac.

[tacfoley]

He deliberately made his loading stuff very simple and soldier proof so I wouldn't have thought you'd need instructions to get it working Tac.

Hey, Des - I'm qualified then!!

'Simple' - tick.

'Soldier proof' - tick.

I'll take another look-see.