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They show regular handle as well as the swivel handle, which I would like to try, price listed for swivel but not regular handle, unless I am missing it, best to check with them,
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Yours is better than mine, I have an "Air Hawk", louder than the hubs of hell and pretty slow filling, altho' mine may be sub-standard, I don't know how they are supposed to perform,

Air tank works very well, with one caution, mine used to hold air for years, now loses a bit every day, even with a shutoff knob, but if you have a compressor to fill it with, no worries even if it...

Did a session yesterday and today with more air, went from 80PSI to 65PSI in an hour or so altho' most of time was spent making minor adjustments to top punch depth and auto bullet feeder. Air tank...

Well, the struggle continues, life kinda' got in the way for a couple of weeks, but I tried to get the Star going earlier. One thing I noticed was that my air tank went from 51 PSI to 45 PSI in 2...

Thanks guys, Brownells has a decent price for a dozen, I will get some,

Anyone know the size and pitch of these little filler screws for the Marlin scope base holes? 6-48 is too small and altho' I don't have a 8-40 tap, I have an 8-32 which seems to be the right...

I will try the tape first Fred, thanks, I did go to Ace Hardware and get a couple of o-rings that look promising, they are 11/16ths ID and small enough so they do not extend past flange of die, but...

That was going to be the next step, did not think about soap tho', I assume that is to make the mix stick better?

Thanks Fred, but does not the teflon tape slide up to the top of the die against the flange, it is a close fit between the die and frame, if so, perhaps a thin o-ring would be better?

In less than half an hour the pressure drops way down, this is not the Magma factory air system, it is an aftermarket kit a guy (on this forum I think) makes.

I have the plastic strip and radiator...

Looks like a good way to go, *IF* you have access to a machine shop to make the piston/plunger, unless someone makes them?

Getting back into the Star presses and have picked up a couple with some top punches but none are flat, all concave shaped for bullet noses of some sort, is there some sort of hard wax, or liquid...

Thanks, might be better to look elsewhere for a source of tin for the boolit casting, I only need very little, just cast for pistols and BPCR's,

Did not know him actually, I think we were making small talk during a cease-fire and next time I saw him he had bought it with him, nice of him, but $300 for 6lbs each of tin and lead?

Thanks!

I should know this after decades of casting but never ran across the issue before, guy at the range about 10 years ago gave me a dozen sticks of "tin", finally got around to looking at it, sticks are...

Well, maybe not good, but hotter, the new Lee Drip-A-Matic seemed to run hotter than the old SAECO, at least until I tried this mould. But I don't have a thermometer so hard to tell for sure.

Thanks for all the help Folks, dipping the pin into the lead did not work too well for me though, the lead clogged everything up, pin would not seat fully because of lead build-up at the flange, and...

I have the Lyman 452374 "Devastater" Hollow Point Mould, and can not keep the area right at the nose free of wrinkles and unfilled areas, I assume because the hollow point pin is cooling down too...

I would be concerned with the long-term barrel life when using an abrasive product, like wax, anyone seen any studies regarding long-term effects on barrel rifling?

From Magma engineering, makers of the Star sizer. Seems super low-cost, according to their PDF file for the Star sizer, $10.35 for 9 sticks, (one pound) but don't know how current that price is.

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I have a couple of round solder ingots from when I bought an older fellow's complete casting setup, one is 5 pounds and is marked "N-F Lead" and "Non-Ferrous Metals Inc, Seattle", the other is 3.5...

Thanks, yes, standard K98k laminated style.

I was considering 4227 for the 323387, but velocity is limited to about 1500fps according to the Lyman handbook, and I wanted to run it at about 1800/1900fps. Loading date is a bit thin for that...