Lubesizer heaters

[Wild Bill 7]

I have the Midway heater also. Have it mounted on a aluminum plate with cork underneath the plate. My star luber is screwed to the plate. Works great and it's about 30 years old.

[facetious]

I got heater for my lube/sizer years ago, if I had to do it again I would just get a heat gun. The heater will keep it warm in a cool basement but the heat gun will get it up to temp alot faster.

[SeabeeMan]

I did a diy lube heater just a pice of scrap aluminum some stain crews to hold it up off the bench and a cheep travel iron
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The temperature is adjustable at the iron and if to hot I can reduce the amount of contact area and ore move it further away

I have basically the same setup: 12" x 6" piece of 1/2" aluminum I had, with a garage sale iron on it. Takes a little practice to get it right but it works well for me. I reconfigure my bench alot and everything is removable to leave a flush top. The Lyman 450 has countersunk holes in it to bolt down to the same tee-nuts that hold my MEC shotgun presses.

[Martin Luber]

I have a heater on my Star sizer but rarely need it. I use nra 50-50 and I play a propane troch on the die body and bottom of the reservoir for about 10 seconds and after that everything moves just fine. Hard lubes like blue are a different story, l have some but never used it.

[Cheeto303]

Don't have a magnetic heater...actually never heard of one . Have used :
electric iron
hair dryer
150W. incandescent shop lamp
heat gun

I just use what I got on hand .
Gary

I have used the above plus one of those coffee cup warmers that you set your coffee cup on. I took it apart and sandwiched the innards between 2 peices of 1/8" aluminum and a spacer cut out of 1/4" aluminum. Works great. Coffee cup warmers can be had at Goodwill for a couple of $'s. It's not pretty but it works.

[38-72]

Where's the fun in doing that ...the Rube Goldberge contraptions are so much more interesting !

Spot On!!

[trapper9260]

I have the Midway heater also. Have it mounted on a aluminum plate with cork underneath the plate. My star luber is screwed to the plate. Works great and it's about 30 years old.

This sounds like the one I got for my Lyman that I wanted one , it have different holes to use for the different lube sizers that there is .

[greenjoytj]

I switched from the Lyman lube heater to the the new RCBS thermostatically controllable heater.

The Lyman worked ok after I fixed a cold soldered joint the factory did on the tiny leads coming out of the cartridge heater.
Always having to turn this heater off on on trying to maintain an even temperature was a pain.
I used it this way for years but when I saw RCBS was coming out with a controllable heater I bought one a soon as they became available.
I think took about 18 months from the time I first saw it in their print catalog.

The temperature control works great. I leave the unit set for the lowest setting while lubing, I can hear the unit clicking turning the power on and off automatically.
I really dislike lubing bullets it’s just a necessary chore but this new heater helps a lot to remove some of the aggravation in bullet sizing and lubing.