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Star History / info on boss made in san diego reloading press

« on: October 07, 2007, 07:58:43 pm »

i have some parts for a press that was made here in town. on the frame it is marked [boss] [san diego] [pat. no.] at the top of the frame there are from left to right three holes 1st.hole 7/8"x14tpi 2nd.hole aprox.5/8" and 3rd. hole  7/8"x14tpi  [i beleve 1st. hole sizer die 2nd. hole powder measure 3rd. hole seating die] now the ram housing assy. is pivoted so the ram can and will aline to the die. all i have is the frame and the ram housing .the parts that fit and work in the ram are the same parts that work in the old cast iron pacific [C] press.

sorry no photo. one of guys i showed it to was telling me he thinks he saw a photo of one in an  old  Hensley ad. he also was saying something about in the same ad there was a powder  measure that they made.

so if someone can shead some light on this one? thanks

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Star Reloaders / Re: Whatever Happened

« on: October 07, 2007, 07:08:27 pm »

hey sorry about that .but thats just the way it gos. i guess i should have been in school learing something. but no i was at star digging in there scrap bin.and what did that get me ? a foot locker full of parts,a ream of blue prints,loads of bar stock and lots of marketing info going back to the 50's. but the best thing as far as info go's is the leter from remington about there primer's from the 30's see the old rem. primers were not flat on the bottom but round. yep and i got some of the star parts for that to. so now i will get off of my box.to all of you spelling [EDIT] out there heres something to think about theres a lot of us out here that may not be as book smart as you. but one thing i can tell you for shure if i need a part for my star i will do one of two things put i new one in it from all the stuff i got from the folks at star or i will make one. and when i am done with it all i will put it on ebay!


EDITED: The post was modified to comply with the membership agreement.

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Star History / Re: star tooling

« on: October 07, 2007, 06:33:40 pm »

sounds like the same thing that midway did after they got fajen gun stocks just pissed all away about stars tooling a lot of the tooling just got scraped luckey turner of otay metal mart had a big scrap bin there and every day i would go there and dig in it it was a hell of a lot of fun and i got lots of goodys they had a big gridly lathe that had a bar stock holder on it and in moving it it fell and snaped one of the forks that the bar tube sat on well i got the two of them and cut the forks off the top i used one for my barrel vise and the other for my wire wheel buffer but in short i know you  don't want to here this but if you did not know what you were looking at a lot of there tooling would just look like a lot of junk but not to me it was some of the best spent time digging in that bin a lot of my pals would call me junk yard and all i tell them is yup i am a junk yard all the way to the bank i still have all the brass stock they made the primer tubes out of but i sracped the rest of the brass when the price went sky high only in america can one get rich by digging in anothers scrap heres one more thing i have some casting for a reloading press that was made here in san diego called [boss] one thing the folks at star ask me if i wanted was the casting mould that they cast the reloader base in i had to pass as it was just to dam big so in the bin it went

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Star Reloaders / Re: Paint Color Match

« on: September 16, 2007, 07:55:39 pm »

i was reworking an old lube resizer and needed some paint os i was looking around and i will be damed if the light polls in down town san diego are not the same color so a pal of mine son had a job at that time working for the city of s.d. and he got my about 6 oz. of it worked jusy fine

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Star Lubricator & Resizers / Re: Phelps VS Star Lubrisizer!

« on: September 16, 2007, 10:55:58 am »

whats to wear? pivot pins and holes ok so ream and fit over size pins! pump  piston and sleve ok so ream tell it cleans up and make a new over size piston or resleve with a brozne valve giuld and new piston and about the[ punch was individually turned on a small South Bend belt driven lathe] the final fit of the punch to die was done on a small bench top monarch that that shister that owned panican coffee ended up with.....................

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Star Reloaders / Re: Whatever Happened

« on: September 16, 2007, 10:31:21 am »

"Some fellow bought the rights to make the Star progressives"

what right the pat. ran out years ago if there were pat. thats why we have the Phelps press!

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Star Reloaders / 1st. post

« on: September 16, 2007, 01:19:59 am »

when i found out star was closing down i was there every day looking in there scrap bin and talking to the crew as much as i could i ended up with a foot locker full of reloader parts copys of working blue prints like shell plates[at that time the luber sizer had already been sold to magma] bar stock lot of brass like the tubing for primer tubes but the best thing was the fan clutch that i put on Georges car after i was done he ask me what he owed me for it ya right after all the stuff you have helped me out on you don't owe me a thing well he just walk over to the shelf and picked one of the 7 boxes from it with one of the last new lube sizers that could be had from star and handed it to me there you go thanks so what could i say back dam thank you best $35 and 30 min. i ever spent if you remember the pen holder on there desk made from a lube sizer base and lube tube i ended up with that to