Bill Detloff was the owner of the Clyde co which made the CPM. A BE shooter, he and his wife shot in our winter league, attended our matches, Camp Perry, and matches in NW Ohio.
From this he learned Stars were hard to get. He felt their price could be beat and improvements made. He designed, copied?, his machine and made a hundred or so of them. As I recall he purchased a number of the base castings. I think their were a few castings left over. Likely a very few.
He sold everything and purchased a sailboat and lived on it traveling widely. A close friend (mine) was also a good friend of the Detloff's and after Bill sold the loader portion my friend sold a few loaders and various left over parts for Bill. There were also some black powder pistols & supplies.
3 of my friends obtained loaders from Bill by working their purchase price off in his business. Bill passed on several years later.
I made a number of attempts to contact the new owner with no success. I was trying to locate parts for a friend who had moved.
Ron Habegger
