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Star Lubricator & Resizers / Re: Star Sizer needs adjusted flowing lube?

« on: August 14, 2007, 04:16:24 pm »

A million thanks for your help fellas, it was the hard lube causing my problems. I cleaned out an replaced the existing hard lube tweaked the bullet ram a bit and I'm now getting uniform lube in the bullets channel, the flow problem I was getting out the rear area is gone it must have been from excessive pressure I was trying to use combined with the hot heater block. I'll keep the heater in place it may come in handy to jump start it on those cold winter nights, my reloading bench is a tab cold in the dead of winter. I have not purchased the extractor tool as of yet I'm not sure if I'm going to size 40 cal. but it may be in the works for later and probably will not hurt to have one hanging around the bench. "2150" your information has been a god sent an educated me on the operation of my star, its back online and you were correct its worth every penny I spent on it. briarthorn

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Star Lubricator & Resizers / Re: Star73

« on: July 14, 2007, 01:00:55 pm »

Yeah Star73 "2150" doing me fine and is sharing a great deal of information about the star sizer as you've read.  Sometime back before locating this forum I wasn't sure if I could find the information needed for this Star, I knew that they had gone out of business a while back but apparently there are a great number of these sizers still on a lot of reloading benches - the nets a great info resource isn't it.  Actually on eBay these ol boys fetch a good price "hence" their highly valued an sought after, to think I just stumbled onto it sitting on a Penn gunshow table, I came early that morning a "good thing."  briarthorn

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Star Lubricator & Resizers / Re: Star Sizer needs adjusted flowing lube?

« on: July 13, 2007, 08:50:37 am »

Yes "2150" I did get that private message and read it, an I understand the lining up of the injection hole you talked about.  In your earlier post you mentioned a "die extractor tool" this I never got with the Starmachine, when I purchased the Star it came with 45 auto dies installed and a set of 40 cal. dies which will do me fine in my Sig 229.  Never the less I'm with your thinking its a bit misaligned and the settings need to be tweaked, I be making an order for Saeco Green soft lube in the future as you recommended. But now I'm off to dig around for the the operational manual - cleanup the blue hard lube - and wait for the UPS man to bring the green lube. I do thank you a great deal for the info and will post later with the out come of all this. "Until then Happy Trails and Thank you" "Keep your powder dry Pilgrims" briarthorn

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Star Lubricator & Resizers / Re: Star Sizer needs adjusted flowing lube?

« on: July 12, 2007, 06:35:08 pm »

Still monkeying around with it, I didn't get to the fix yet still waiting for a few persons that have some time with the Star sizer to post ideas, like I had mentioned in the earlier post a huge box of blue lube sticks that came with the sizer are incredibly hard an this is why I added the heater - maybe that heater was a waste of money.  The sizer seems to be out of adjustment and the lube is flowing like the heater is way to hot, but theres isn't anyway to adjust the heater block - I think the heater is some of the problem, but still I don't think the sizer is adjusted incorrectly, small amount of lube on top of bullet an at the base of bullet.  A good call would be to take the heater block out from under it and switch to a soft or homemade lube, do you have any recipes for a good homemade lube.  I'm inserting an image link of where the lube is flowing from the rear spring/plunger area, like i had said I believe its from wrong lube and the heater thing. P.S.when I get to it I'll post a pic of the lubed on the bullet, got to get to work. briarthorn
(Saeco Green "roger that")
to see flow problem go here: =>http://www.box.net/shared/farojbp5fe

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Star Lubricator & Resizers / Star Sizer needs adjusted flowing lube?

« on: July 09, 2007, 01:58:56 pm »

Hey new to this forum I bought a Star sizer setup for 45 auto at a gun show, I started using it but I'm having problems with too much lube flowing past the bullet, its doing a good job of lubing the bullet but my problem is with excess lube sometimes on top of the swcutters, its also coming from the rear plunger spring on the backside of the sizer. Does anyone know how to adjust this problem out of the sizer or will I have to change lubes - P.S I have a heating block under the sizer because the huge box of lube that came with the sizer in the deal is fairly hard lube. Do I need to clean this stuff out and make my own lube for this sizer to work well? The rounds I've cleaned up are tac drivers but the excess lube is a bummer. I don't know the first thing about adjusting this baby could use some help from Star Sizer "guru" thanks. -  briarthorn