Lube build up

[armednfree]

As I seat bullets the lube builds up on the seating stem and the boolits get seated progressively deeper. These are tumble lubed bullets 45-45-10. Other than wiping the lube from the nose of each boolit, is there any other way around this? I had considered spraying the stem with PAM cooking spray, but that might be silly.

This lot I'm loading is 600 rounds. Wiping the nose of each is time prohibitive

[mdi]

For my tumble lube applications I dip lube. Perhaps you could try using thinner lube (thin alox w/mineral spirits to water consistency). Another method I looked at is to place a bunch of bullets in a shallow pan, base down, and fill with alox/45-45-10 to the level needed to cover the body of the bullet. Pick each bullet out of the lube/pan and set it on wax paper or aluminum foil to dry. Clogging the seating die with tumble lube is just part of tumble lubing, even with thinned lube...

[white eagle]

May have to clean seating die every so often

[MtGun44]

Another reason that I don't use tumble lube. Hate having the
whole thing covered in goop like .22 ammo.

[runfiverun]

don't put so much on.
all you need is a very thin light wash [just enough to get between the barrel and the bullet]
my second coat is usually just more mineral spirits and heat.
my version is 45/45/50 in other words I use waay more mineral spirits, and heat the boolits up to hot with a hair dryer.

[dondiego]

+1 on above. You are using WAY too much.

[44man]

Another reason I like Hornady dies, takes 2 seconds to pop the punch out without changing settings.
I make a mess myself and I use Felix by stuffing in with fingers mostly, almost never have enough for pan lubing. I don't wipe boolits.