Star Lubesizer ---quick lube change ????

[rbertalotto]

Has anyone come up with a method to easily change lube in a Star?

I shoot smokeless and Black Powder and use two different lubes.

I haven't come up with a good method to easily change lube.

[dragon813gt]

Buy a second Star
Unfortunately that's what most people who use different lubes do.

[Beagle333]

Has anyone come up with a method to easily change lube in a Star?

No.



sorry.

[cbrick]

Probably not what you want to hear but I use two Stars.

When in the past I needed to change lubes I used a double pan & hot water to melt it out.

Rick

[dragonrider]

Using a heat gun to melt out the lube would be about the fastest method, catching the lube in some kind of container.

[Wots]

One way not to change the lube out:

Warm up the lubesizer, remove the bottom plug, attach the air hose to the reservoir with out checking the air pressure setting (was at 75 psi).
Is sounded like a 22 going off with a wide shotgun pattern on virgin drywall a good 8' away.

Lesson learned

[wymanwinn]

Buy a second Star
Unfortunately that's what most people who use different lubes do.

^^^what he said^^^

[rbertalotto]

Yup....seems like a second STAR is the way to go....I asked this same question two years ago. Was hoping someone had a brilliant idea since then....

[kevmc]

Used star just sold on fleabay for $380......!!!!!??????????????????

[georgerkahn]

I concur re purchasing another Star -- I just bought ($250 shipped) one from a wonderful gent on this site; they DO come up -- as I'd been stalling, and stalling, to forestall the "change" challenge! I once "ran out" of lub on a Star and just put in a new/different lub -- I had "hybrid lub'd" boolits for the first 600 or so which were so lubed.
I still have/use my Lyman 450 for the calibers I infrequently cast for -- but, as others voiced, the Star is "they way to go" for those which really regularly get cranked out -- "dedicated" so I need not mess with lub (or die) changes!
BEST!
geo

[Springfield]

The EASIEST way is to just turn up the heat on the lube heater, after removing the die. Then either turn up the air pressure or screw down the lube pressure screw and pump it all out the bottom. Put something on the top of the die chamber to keep it all going out the bottom, either a cork of some kind or maybe your thumb. Best to do this after the lube is mostly gone, if you can time it. None of the lubers are designed to be easy change out. I have 3 Stars, so I rarely do this.

[ELFEGO BACA]

Black powder and smoke less powder?
Simple solution two stars

[RG1911]

A couple weeks ago, a lube I was trying wasn't working out, so I decided to remove it. I unscrewed the large-diameter brass plug on the passageway between the ram and the die and just cranked the pressure screw until all the lube came out. Very little mess. I do use a heated base.

Richard

[Springfield]

If you are running slow pistol bullets the BP lube will probably work just fine with smokeless, do it with my wife's cowboy shooting ammo.

[mongoose33]

A couple weeks ago, a lube I was trying wasn't working out, so I decided to remove it. I unscrewed the large-diameter brass plug on the passageway between the ram and the die and just cranked the pressure screw until all the lube came out. Very little mess. I do use a heated base.

Richard

I wanted to change lubes on the Star so I decided to try Richard's method. It works, and is relatively fast. Here are pics showing how.

I have Kyle's air kit on my Star as well as a heater. I cranked the heat up to 110, used a heat gun to warm the lube reservoir, and cranked the pressure up to 40psi.

I removed the brass plug, and out came a worm of lube! It was only a matter of having it all come out (took about 5 minutes for what you see in the pics), used some q-tips to clean out the plug area as best I could, then cut off the air, removed the air kit piston and the reservoir was absolutely empty.

I put in a stick of new lube, and used the heat gun again to warm it up. Connected the air, and back to 40psi. Out came most of the rest of the old lube. Once I had that pretty much clear, I reinstalled the brass plug, and allowed the old red lube to be pushed out in the die area until it was switched over to green. Voila! Now that I know what I'm doing, this is maybe a 15 minute job. Not really very bad. And not very messy, as melting the lube out would be.

The pics:

[rbertalotto]

I just realized that we could use these machines to make sausage!.....Yeah...Home Made Slim Jims!!!

Thanks for all the tips...Greatly Appreciated!

[BenW]

Snap into a lubed boolit!

Sorry, whenever I hear or read slim jim, I hear that maniacal laugh from the commercial.

I'll have to try this as well on my lyman. More manual, but that just builds character.

[rbertalotto]

Snap into a lubed boolit!

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[cajun shooter]

This is the reason that I was running 3 Stars with air at one time. Later David

[runfiverun]

I do it like mongoose shows.
you get a little of the old lube on the first 20 or so but after that it's pretty much all gone.