uh oh...what caused this?

[jgh4445]

I was sizing and lubing on my RCBS lurasizer. All was going well....452's from a Lee 90352 mold. Ran out of lube and took the resevoir apart to add another lube stick. Though while I was at it, I'd clean the sizing die a bit since the lube that was in it was old. Took a hair dryer and got the outside of the die warm enough so that Icould wipe the old lube off and re assembled. Turned the ratchet to load the die, placed a boolit on the die, pulled the handle and the boolit began to rise as I raised the handle. It seems the lube is comong out from under the base of the boolit and very little is going into the lube groove. Most of the lube is under the base of the boolit. What did I do wrong here. Can't get the thing to start lubing correctly again!

[jgh4445]

Got it figured out....over pressure.....it likes 6 boolits, one pump, 6 boolits one pump...etc.....had to many pumps and not enough sizing/lubing going on!!!! Thanks

[lwknight]

Sounds like you got the depth adjustment mislocated.

[gray wolf]

to much pressure,
and if heat is applied to the body of the sizer the lube can expand.

[geargnasher]

Wrong depth setting, heat, air pockets in the lube, trying to put too much pressure.

Try only putting enough pressure on the pressure screw to lube one boolit, and do it for EACH boolit you lube. Push the boolit to your depth stop after you get it adjusted correctly, THEN apply just enough pressure to fill the grooves, then eject the boolit. Repeat.

Gear

[Cherokee]

+1 for gear

[Echo]

+2 for Gear.

[258bob]

I have a rcbs and it happens when lube is to hot

[GP100man]

I throw in my 2cents on the adjustment of depth , sometimes 1/16th of a turn will keep your sanity !!!

[delt167502]

air traped ,when you put the new stick in . if that happens all you have to do is let it bleed then keep on sizing.