Anyone ever used a Ballisti cast automated sizer?

[old_haidouk]

Just got a Ballisti cast lubri-sizer. It's the old generation, driven by air. It has 4 air pumps including the lube cylinder. It's an intresting machine but it was missused by a previous owner. There isn't a lot of room to make the die change so people before just hammered the dies in and out. There are blows on the heavy base plate and ram support. I am a little worried that the ram may not be perpendicular on the plate anymore. The sizing die bushing was also damaged, it has a crease so the Star dies won't go in anymore. I know at some point this sizer belonged to a machinist fellow that used it foir a little bit and I am sure he knew better than to hammer it all over the place, what amazes me is how ignorant people before him were. A C clamp would've worked much better than a hammer... Any ideas on how to get the bushing true again?

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n89/old_haidouk/Star%2038%20Special/sizer019.jpg
http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n89/old_haidouk/Star%2038%20Special/sizer006.jpg
http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n89/old_haidouk/Star%2038%20Special/sizer009.jpg

[old_haidouk]

The bushing is spot welded underneath.

[yarro]

Options:

If the smaller diameter hole (below the shoulder is still true, you could take a piloted 90 deg counter bore and fix it. (The cutter would be expensive.) T

Disassemble everything. Take it to a machines and have them true the hole with a boring bar in a mill.

Identify where the top edge has had metal displced inward and take a punch and displace it back the other way. (Not for the feint at heart, but I have seen it done successfully when I worked on mechanical equipment.)

Identify where the metal has been displaced inward and carefully remove metal until it is round. I used to work with someone who restored the ways on equipment to unbelieveable accuracy via scraping when they got unevenly worn so it is doable.

Make something to pound/ press into the hole that will round it back out. May require more than one swaging tool be made.

I personally would go with taking it to a machinist. As it is an easy fix for any good machinist.

-yarro

[old_haidouk]

yarro, thanks a bunch. They're all valid options. My dad suggested scraping the metal like you said, but I am not that artisticly inclined l:) I sent it out to lathesmith to do his magic.