Star sizer
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Star sizer
I bought a used Star sizer three or four years ago. It took me a couple of years to get around to ordering a couple of sizer dies in diameters that I wanted. Today I finally sized my first bullets with it. It had some old hard blue lube in it and I used it up on some .430" SWC boolits. I don't have a heater for it but it was mounted to an aluminum plate when I got it. I used a heat gun to heat it up so the lube would flow. It took a bit to figure out where to point the heat gun and how long to heat it. My first "heat" I had the lube flowing out of a couple places like it was water. After I got the hang of it I could really run through the bullets. Kinda like getting a zero turn lawn mower after years of using a regular lawn mower. I still like my Lyman sizer for gas check bullets but the Star is a mighty slick lube sizer for plain base boolits. Wish I would have got it going years ago.
Re: Star sizer
I have one with a heater, just love it! Works great even when gas checking. The heater unit, I bought with the sizer, has a rheostat, so I got it dialed in to just the heat I want and the unit turns itself on and off to keep the temp just right. Been using LBT blue with it. I have the sizer - heater unit attached to a phenolic plate which is bolted to a aluminum plate. The aluminum plate has holes in it the are common to the plates I have other presses on. One set of holes in the bench and I can switch plates out to change things.
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Re: Star sizer
Bronco which way do you feed the bullets when you using gas checks?
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Nose first! Same as plain base.
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Re: Star sizer
Hondo, the Starr is wonderful for gas-check bullets. It took this ignorant *** 20 years to figure that out -- don't make my mistake. I now feel real abused if I have to do some gas-checked bullets on the old Lyman because I don't yet have the right sized Starr die. I did a post on this very subject a couple weeks ago in fact https://www.levergunscommunity.org/view ... 30#p900530
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is he who heals the most gullies. Patrick Henry
is he who heals the most gullies. Patrick Henry
Re: Star sizer
Thanks Earl.