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Thread: A fix to hold Star handle up.

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    Boolit Bub
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    I did the same as ph4570 and Bob's modification above and it works just fine in holding up the handle. My c-pins just slip into the roll pin holes. The pins are not s/s but seem to hold the spring tension just fine.

    Hammerhead357: I took delivery of my new one from Magma about a month ago and it is silver colored just as in the pictures above.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hammerhead357 View Post
    Mtgrs737 is that picture of a recent production lubesizer? My Stars are a darker blue and that looks like Magma blue. I haven't seen one of the newer production models and am just curious.
    I noticed that the pictures that Bob. and ph4570 posted are not painted at all. So can each of you shed some light on the manufacture of you lubesizer?
    Thanks to everyone...WEs
    It seems that Magma no longer paints the units. I have no idea when they stopped doing so. For that matter I do not know that Magma ever painted them but I am by no means a Star/Magma historian.
    ph4570

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    Quote Originally Posted by hammerhead357 View Post
    Mtgrs737 is that picture of a recent production lubesizer? My Stars are a darker blue and that looks like Magma blue. I haven't seen one of the newer production models and am just curious.
    I noticed that the pictures that Bob. and ph4570 posted are not painted at all. So can each of you shed some light on the manufacture of you lubesizer?
    Thanks to everyone...WEs

    It must be the flash on my camera that is making the color of my older Star look like a royal blue and not the Navy blue that it really is. I have two Stars from about the same time period and both I have repainted with Krylon Navy blue. Navy blue is so very close to the original Star blue that for the most part if I didn't tell you it was not original then you would not know it. The Star blue is one shade darker than the Krylon Navy blue. Stars are very easy to re-paint, just disassemble as much as practical and tape off the rest. I used paint remover to get the old chipped up paint off, it was very easy and made the new paint look factory new.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hammerhead357 View Post
    Mtgrs737 is that picture of a recent production lubesizer? My Stars are a darker blue and that looks like Magma blue. I haven't seen one of the newer production models and am just curious.
    I noticed that the pictures that Bob. and ph4570 posted are not painted at all. So can each of you shed some light on the manufacture of you lubesizer?
    Thanks to everyone...WEs

    My Magma Star is new it came without paint,,

    Bob

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    Superfly, same idea as mine, bend the handle so it go back past 90 and it can't fall.

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    Much like the rubber band method I used a Dillon powderbar return spring works fine and free

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    Temac, thanks for the dillon spring idea, just happin to have a few of those and it even holds up the handle with the bullet feeder on it.
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    I bought a star spring kit on ebay one time to hold handle up.

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    Does anybody have the old, old Star sizers with the round ball rock-maple handles? These are my favorites! I have two but the one I need escapes me... it's complicated.
    Looking for Ideal mold 419181 (44 Evans Long)
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    Check out eBay 'Star Lube Sizer Handle Return Kit' $3.49 Beats experimenting and hunting the parts. I bought one. Easy to install. Works like a charm.

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BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
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