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Star Reloaders / The Perfect Progressive
« on: October 21, 2004, 07:44:32 pm »
Auto indexing is something that appeals ONLY if you haven't tried it. All the mechanisms I've seen, and I've seen quite a few, were all more trouble than they were worth. Star, of course, had an auto indexing mechanism but never introduced it. Though that it added to much wear. Other companies did make such indexers for the Star. They worked, sort of, but substantially decreased the life expectancy of the machine.
A much improved Star has been attempted before. The CPM was a good try but they only made a few machines and would never supply spart parts. What parts they made went into new units. CPM, incidentally, stood from Clyde Products Manufacturing. CPM was noteworthy for another reason. They first thought of converting a single station machine into a progressive. RCBS adopted that in their Piggyback series. Dillon stopped CPM from doing this big time by threatening them with a Patent lawsuit. RCBS paid royalities and did Hornady. Lee and Dillon had a patent sharing arrangement.
A much improved Star has been attempted before. The CPM was a good try but they only made a few machines and would never supply spart parts. What parts they made went into new units. CPM, incidentally, stood from Clyde Products Manufacturing. CPM was noteworthy for another reason. They first thought of converting a single station machine into a progressive. RCBS adopted that in their Piggyback series. Dillon stopped CPM from doing this big time by threatening them with a Patent lawsuit. RCBS paid royalities and did Hornady. Lee and Dillon had a patent sharing arrangement.