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Star History / Re: Bruce Willimans

« on: February 11, 2021, 03:43:29 am »

Bruce is invaluable to the Star community. His wealth of knowledge, passion and helpfulness is mainly why the Star community is alive and kicking. The Star brand could not be in better hands. I bet there are more operational Stars now than there have been in many years.

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Stars Want to Sell/Want to Buy / Re: WTB star universal

« on: January 29, 2021, 04:16:05 am »

Contact Bruce Williams, rbwillnj here on this forum. I'm sure he can set you up.

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Star Reloaders / Re: Parted out Machines on eBay - Buyer Beware!

« on: January 09, 2021, 03:00:10 pm »

Bruce, thanks a lot for the heads-up!

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Loading Data & Reloading Procedures / Re: Loading Hi-Tek coated bullets

« on: December 30, 2020, 02:48:21 pm »

Hey FOR_Star,
That's right, I purchased quick change plates for all my Stars. I believe Dan had the template already, or I sent it to him, I don't quite remember. But anyway, I like to operate my Stars turned a little sideways to easier seat bullets, so I drilled new holes. They work very well, I have no complaints. Dan makes excellent stuff.

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Loading Data & Reloading Procedures / Re: Loading Hi-Tek coated bullets

« on: December 05, 2020, 02:40:23 pm »

I have been loading Hitek bullets on my Stars, and have had zero problems. You need to apply a little more bell to the case mouth than when loading jacketed or naked lead bullets in order to protect the coating. Here you can see me load some 44-40 with Hitek-coated bullets.

https://youtu.be/rOdlFX9a1HE

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Star History / I came by an interesting video today

« on: October 26, 2020, 06:40:27 pm »

https://youtu.be/jDP8BRSEjrA?t=761
The fun starts at around the 12:40 mark.

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Star Reloaders / Ray-vin discontinued their Star addons

« on: April 09, 2019, 04:05:16 pm »

Looks like Ray and Ruby are no longer offering their case kicker and indexer for the Star. That's really too bad, I was planning on purchasing the indexer, but was too late. I have the case kicker on all my presses, they work flawlessly and are really well made.

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Star Lubricator & Resizers / Re: sizer lub

« on: February 16, 2019, 04:33:54 am »

$5 is expensive, $14 is ridiculous. I get all my lube from White Label, you can find them here; https://www.lsstuff.com/store/

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Star Reloaders / Re: Powder Slide Housing Cover

« on: January 04, 2019, 02:19:02 pm »

I assume the hole lines up with the powder measure spout? This mod could come in handy if you're weighing all your charges and don't want to take the case out of the machine. You could just drop the charge through the hole. That's my guess.

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Star Reloaders / Re: Star loader with extras

« on: April 18, 2018, 07:21:17 am »

Thank you, that is one smooth working machine. What kind of eject system do you use?

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Star Reloaders / Re: Star loader with extras

« on: April 17, 2018, 02:07:02 pm »

Any chance for a video of the wonder in action?

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Star Reloaders / Re: Need help with the press mount

« on: March 23, 2018, 06:03:34 am »

Here's how I did it, I purchased quick change plates from Dan at Inline. I drilled new holes to that I could change the angle a little bit for easier bullet seating. I haven't drilled holes in the plates for the ejected primers, I only load processed brass on the Stars.

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Star Reloaders / Re: MA systems bullet feeder

« on: December 22, 2017, 06:55:11 am »

I'm able to see the video now, very nice setup I must say.

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Star Reloaders / Re: MA systems bullet feeder

« on: December 03, 2017, 06:12:39 pm »

I get a 404 error. It would be awesome to see this thing in action.

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Star Reloaders / Re: Star upgrades almost done

« on: October 01, 2017, 05:23:14 am »

Hi Harold,
thanks. I'm not sure if they are a stocked item, but there was no problem getting 4 of them with the correct hole pattern. But I had to drill new holes anyway, I like my Stars to be oriented a little bit sideways for easy bullet seating.
The chutes are 100% home made.

Ole