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« on: January 29, 2009, 09:05:22 pm »
A friend has a CPM. He & several others worked for CPM part time to help pay for their loaders. He recently told me he has a case feeder for the machine which he doesn't use. When I inquired as to using it on one of my stars he told me it had a diff radius. I'm quite sure they were made [no e-mail]@ CPM. Detloff, the owner was a competent engineer, machinist, & small businessman.
A friend who disposed of the last of his inventory of parts & machines for him had used a CPM since it's inception in a deal as above related. After many yrs he acquired a used star. He never used the CPM after, attesting to the superiority of star.
Detloff started out charging close to the same price as star so apparently later on sold them for less. Though I never used one they had some interesting innovations, mostly improvements we have made to our stars such as the loaded round ejector. The primer pickup tubes accommodated 100 and of course the use of 7/8-14 dies. He used a powder bar drilled for bushings. The shellplate is not interchangeable with the stars.
Detloff promoted his units mostly himself as I understood. He & his wife both competed in bullseye so he pushed them there and probably obtained certain tax advantages from those travels. He sold the business to an individual who seemed to just drop the whole thing. I tried contacting him several times for replacement parts needed by friends to no avail. The closest was when I talked to his sister who advised me to stop wasting my time. Fortunately the parts needed were fairly straight forward and we made them.
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