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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.
Elvis Floppyfeet
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Thank you, Sir.Originally Posted by loiner1965
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..
Elvis Floppyfeet
Oh dear
Ring helston GUN shop as he still sells and supplies these presses
email...... stephenbarrow@ntlworld.com
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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.
[I]DesG
Domani e troppo tardi
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Hey, Des - I'm qualified then!!
'Simple' - tick.
'Soldier proof' - tick.
I'll take another look-see.
Registered User
Just sent some by email , if it does not arrive let me know .
ATB
James
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Very many thanks indeed!!! You are my hero for today, Sir.
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There is also this info here
http://www.dave-cushman.net/shot/wamadetleaflet.html
ATB
James
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Have a look at a couple of YouTube clips on the RCBS Summit. Supposedly they bought the design rights. Unlike most other presses you'd have used, the case "stays still" and the dies move to it. Wamadets are very sought after these days.
Elvis Floppyfeet
thats the decapper not a sizing press which tac as
email...... stephenbarrow@ntlworld.com
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...and tac has just been handed a bag containing a number of extra parts that were not there before..watch this space.
Elvis Floppyfeet
excellent news..........and tac has just been handed a bag containing a number of extra parts that were not there before..watch this space.
email...... stephenbarrow@ntlworld.com
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John was very inventive!...and tac has just been handed a bag containing a number of extra parts that were not there before..watch this space.
[I]DesG
Domani e troppo tardi
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I have used a Wamadet Press for years as my only reloading Press. So easy to set at the dining table and use it there, thus still being part of the family, instead of locking yourself away in your man cave for hours. Some people claim you can use it on your knee, but I reckon they are way too heavy for that. Still I have loaded many Thousands on .30-06 and .243 rounds with mine, not to mention .357, 9mm, and .38's when we had pistolas. Don't reckon you would ever wear one out.
lakey
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