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BOOKS FOR BULLET SWAGERS
Learn about bullet swaging, the fast accurate process that gives
you total control over bullet design and production! The combined
knowledge of generations of master die-makers has been collected in the
Corbin Swaging Library -- seven volumes of easy-to-read, fact-filled
information. More than 840 pages of authorative work, with charts,
photos, data, drawings, and technical reports, in a special package to
save you money!
USE YOUR VISA/MASTER-CHARGE AND ORDER BY TELEPHONE: 503-826-5211
The Corbin Swaging Library includes these books:
The BULLET SWAGE MANUAL, T.Smith
The CORBIN TECHNICAL BULLETINS, Vol. I
The CORBIN TECHNICAL BULLETINS, Vol. II
The CORBIN TECHNICAL BULLETINS, Vol. III
POWER SWAGING, D. Corbin
RE-DISCOVER SWAGING, D. Corbin
The CORBIN HANDBOOK & CATALOG of BULLET SWAGING
Order catalog number BP-7
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The BULLET SWAGE MANUAL, T. Smith, 1976, 45 pgs.
This book is one of the earliest works on bullet swaging, written
by a pioneer in the field. Many of the illustrations are of early
Corbin swaging tools. The book is intended as a primer for beginners,
but belongs in any complete library of swaging as a historical work.
Catalog number BSM
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The CORBIN TECHNICAL BULLETINS, Volume I 1977, 66 pgs.
The first collection of Corbin technical papers, this book
contains a detailed section of definitions, specific questions and
answers about swaging technique, comparisons of cost, speed and
accuracy between casting and swaging, and answers to the most commonly
asked questions about bullet swaging. Rimfire jacket-making, hollow
and cup points, designs for deep penetration, and other similar
subjects are covered.
Catalog number TB-1
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The CORBIN TECHNICAL BULLETINS, Volume II 1980, 102 pgs.
This book gives a detailed chapter by chapter discussion of
specific calibers and how to make bullets for them. Included are
obsolete, foreign, current centerfire rifle and handgun calibers, in
fifteen chapters. In addition, there is an experimental .375 design
with loading data, chamber dimensions, and test results. A wealth of
information about the history of swaging is included.
Catalog number TB-2
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The CORBIN TECHNICAL BULLETINS, Volume III 1983, 106 pgs.
Experimental work with custom bullets, the rise of the survivalist
movements, and concerns about the future supplies of bullets in the US
and abroad brought a flood of technical articles addressing these
subjects. Original papers and translations from trade journals are
included. Bonding and heat treatment of jackets, manufacture of copper
tubing bullets, and hunting bullets are covered in detail.
Catalog number TB-3
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POWER SWAGING, D. Corbin 1984, 195 pgs.
Also known as Corbin Technical Bulletins, Volume IV, this is the
bible of commercial bullet making. It is filled with data on pressures,
forces, and die strength, calculations, charts, computer programs, and
photos. Hundreds of dollars worth of dies were destroyed to test the
limits of the formulae, and photos of these are included as well.
The book serves as an operator's guide for the Hydro-press,
although it also covers several earlier models of air and hydraulic
power presses that are no longer manufactured. Two very valuable
chapters deal with organization of a custom bullet business, and with
the numbers involved in production volume. Marketing, promotion,
feasibility studies, and selection of a product line are written so
they can be understood by a beginner, yet interesting enough to attract
experienced engineers.
Catalog number TB-4
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RE-DISCOVER SWAGING, D. Corbin 1983, 244 pgs.
This is the standard textbook of swaging. The washable morroco
cover is gold-embossed. It is used by law enforcement agencies and
schools around the world, in public and private libraries from Brussels
to Perth, read by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and by the students
at gunsmithing schools. You'll find detailed, accurate information
arranged in twenty-two chapters, covering everything from lubricant to
lead, pressure to press design, history of swaging (including original
letters from Biehler and Astles, Fred Huntington, and Capt. G.L.
Wotkyns at critical points during the 1940 to 1960 period) and just
about anything else you might care to know about swaging. If you only
want one book, make it this one.
Catalog number RDS
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The WORLD DIRECTORY of CUSTOM BULLET MAKERS
Data has been collected from all over the world for a decade on
bullet markets, and the people who are active in the custom bullet
field. If you are looking for a certain caliber -- modern, obsolete,
wildcat, foreign, or experimental -- this is the sourcebook for people
who can make it! Articles of interest to experimenters, purchasing
agents, engineers, and ballisticians as well as those who might wish to
enter the custom bullet field as suppliers are included.
Editors, writers, and publishers of firearms journals around the
world have a copy of this book for reference. Buyers in government and
industry, defense agencies and law enforcement operations, game control
commissions, ballistic labs, and applied science libraries can turn to
the sources listed to find out who makes what.
Corbin customers who are selling bullets commercially are invited
to write for a free listing in the book's next edition. Advertising
space is periodically available to qualified firms. Agencies dealing
with firearms-related suppliers should check out the tremendous market
exposure this book gives.
Catalog Number WD-1
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The CORBIN HANDBOOK and CATALOG of BULLET SWAGING, No. 7
You are reading a copy now! If you would like additional copies
for friends, order directly from Corbin. This is the seventh edition:
it is not the seventh book of the collection, or the seventh year,
since Corbin has been in business much longer than that. We publish a
new edition whenever the information becomes outmoded and continued
editions of the same book begin to lose their relevance to newer ideas.
Catalog number HB-7
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OTHER LITERATURE...
The BASICS of BULLET SWAGING
This is a color brochure, 6-pages, telling what swaging is and
what you can do with it. Single copies are available postpaid for $1
(to cover postage and handling). Write for quantity prices to clubs
and schools.
The Corbin HYDRO-PRESS brochure
A color folder describing the powerful CHP-1 Hydro-press. Single
copies are $1 (for postage and handling) -- no additional charge if
ordered with other literature. Write for quantity prices to clubs and
schools.
The Corbin IMMEDIATE DELIVERY LIST
This is a list of dies available for immediate delivery. Since
Corbin dies are all hand-made products, individually diamond lapped and
fitted, there can be a considerable backlog on certain calibers from
time to time. The Immediate Delivery List tells what is on the shelf
right now. It changes from month to month, and is not a guarentee but
only a temporary listing. If you see something you want, call
immediately and use your VISA/MASTER-CHARGE card to have it shipped
right away. (Sorry - no holding for future payment! Demand is just
too high to tie up products in this manner.)
This list is free for the asking, when ordered with other
literature or products. Included with most shipments is also our
current price list, any specials we may have on supplies or products,
announcements of new books or computer software, etc.
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CORBIN COMPUTER SOFTWARE
Now you can design bullets quickly, easily, with Corbin's DC-1001
Bullet Design program. All you need to know is the weight and style of
bullet you want to make -- the program asks these simple questions, and
then calculates the ballistic coefficient, form factor, average
density, stable twist rate, core and jacket volumes, core weight, over-
all length, length of ogive and length of shank, and a number of other
parameters of importance to makers of commercial bullets.
If you don't know what to answer, the program supplies a standard
default value. You can just hit the "enter" key, and run the
calculation automatically with all default values if you wish, to see
how it works. You need absolutely NO math background, NO experience in
bullet design or ballistics. Automatic tables appear on the screen for
each question that requires some special knowledge, and the program
checks your input to see if it is reasonable. If not, it gives you
another chance to input a value, or just hit return and let the program
supply a value.
There is no way you can "mess up" this program. And best of all,
when you have designed the bullet (which takes perhaps two seconds),
those values can be printed out, and/or automatically used in a second
program that is part of the first one: kinetic parameters. You can
"fire" the bullet at any velocity within reason, see what kind of
energy density, muzzle energy, momentum, and other values the bullet
would have. And, you can change one or more parameters and try it
again to see the effect, all within seconds. The program keeps all the
values you put in last, and uses them until you change them. If you
turn off the program, it resets to standard default values so you
can't "get lost" or forget important standard values.
The DC-1001 program is currently available on 5-1/4" floppy disk
for IBM-PC/XT or /AT computers. The program is completely self-
contained in executable machine code for the 8088 processor, and runs
at either 4.77 mhz or at accelerated clock rates. Either color or B&W
monitors will work. All display is in the text mode. The disk is NOT
copy protected and can be loaded onto your hard disk drive.
Don't confuse DC-1001 with ordinary external ballistics programs:
it is not merely an electronic table of values, but a powerful
calculus-based tool for design of bullets. It is not the same as a
program that gives you drop and remaining energy for an existing
bullet, but a way to create new bullets of your own design. You can
input various densities of core and jacket material, and find out what
effect aluminum, tungsten, brass, or plastic might have on the bullet
paramters. You can even select the target material density and find
out what spin rate would stabilize the bullet in space, in air, under
water, or in any other media. DC-1001 is a one-of-a-kind program for
the bullet maker. (To run the program, simply type "Bullets").
Catalog Number DC-1001
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