Arbor press, 1 ton enough?

[artjr338wm]

I have found a good 1 ton arbor press from Harbor freight for under $50, but am concerned if it will be strong enough for my purposes and not break.

I strictly need it to resize bullets I have knurled to a larger OD down to a smaller OD say from .451" knurled up to .4545/455" resized back down to consistently .4535-454", depending on what OD my 10ML-II likes best.

All the 2 ton arbor presses I have found cost at least almost 3x as much, so I am hesitant to spend that much more $$$ on a project I am not positive will work until I try it.

Any suggestions on where to get a good deal on a 2 ton arbor press would be extremely helpful. Al;l the ones I found cost from $130 to over $150 W/O S&H.

Thanks,
Arthur.

[edge]

1 ton should be fine.

With a 1 ton you should be able to size a .458 jacketed bullet to .448 in one pass.

You won't be able to size a .458 copper bullet in one pass...at least without a lot of effort.

edge.

Check ebay, sometimes there are good deals including shipping.

[artjr338wm]

Thanks Edge,
All I am looking to do is resize bullets knurled up to a OD of .4545-.455" down to .4535-.454".

My gole is to acheive as close to as is possible bullets that are 100% consistsnt in size, more than the actual OD itself. Thay could have a OD of .453, .4535, or even .454" it does not matter as long as it the same OD.

My situation is this.
I get VG to EX accuracy with all copper TMZs and SFs, shot with sabots knurled up to any OD between .453-.4545". It is just each knurled OD will produce POIs that differ slightly and I wish to eliminate that from occuring. Using a press to resize them all to the same size +/- .005" strikes me as the easiest way to accomplish this, I hope.

Thanks,
Arthur.

[boarhog]

I bought a 2 ton arbor press from MSC. It takes a pretty good pull to size bullets more than .005. I tried to make a die to shrink 350 gr .510 bullets down for sabotless. I had to hammer the press arm down, but my die is far from finished.

Seems like I paid $70.00 for the press, but freight was a LOT!! Seems like over $50.00, but I'll have to dig into my invoice file to know for sure.
BH

[Richard]

Go to Enco.com
Richard

www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?PARTPG=INSRAR2&PMAKA=805-1010&PMPXNO=949902

[bigmoose]

I have a one ton, if I was to do over again, I'd go with a two ton, but I'm not offering advice,
Smokeeter, is the grand master of altering factory bullets, If I was about to buy a press, I'd PM him for his thoughts

[Jon]

I'm sure this would be found funny by many but if you need more than 1 ton at that price you could buy a 10+ ton hydraulic press for the same money?
Jon

[Richard]

Jon........the only problem with using a hydraulic bottle jack is the fact that it is "slow" Now, if you have an air compressor, you could use a pneumatic/hydraulic jack which would be much faster. They have foot control for "up" and "release"
Richard

[Jon]

I have all of the above for my tubing bender. Just in the past to save room I didn't invest in the press since the arbor press did what I needed at the time.My compressor is big enough to handle my sand blaster.
Jon