We still see a lot of Lyman bashing around here. I find it surprising because I've had really good luck with them, much of my equipment is over 20 years old and still performs like new. The only real issue I had was a bad run of heating elements for my Mag 20 about ten years ago. My two tumblers have over 20 years each on them, I did finally have to replace the bowl on my 600 because walnut media had worn a hole through it over the course of a couple decades. I constantly buy, sell, and trade Lyman & Ideal molds, outside of a few ill-conceived designs, no real issues. I've never had to send a mold to the factory for anything. I have probably a dozen or so old style handles. The only issues they had were from my setting the wooden handles on the lip of the pot while pre-heating, that does tend to char them a bit. My thermometer is over 20 years old and has never missed a day of work. I did replace my two 450 sizers to a Star, but not because they were problematical, I just wanted straight through sizing. All in all, it's worth more to me to buy something that doesn't require untold internet pages of repairs and corrections to simply make equipment usable. What am I missing here?
I shall wait here whilst somebody calls "dogpile"!