If fast is what turns you on, it is a heck of a lot faster to go to the gun store and buy your bullets.
This sounds like a "My dogs' bigger than yours argument."
The best way is the way you enjoy doing it.
My cast boolits drop from the mold on the large side. So when I size them, it makes sense to lube and be done.
Try it and see what happens.For lube sizers I don't have a heater for I use a heat lamp to warm the sizer up.
I dont use a heater in my Lyman 45. It takes a pretty stiff aka high paraffin wax lube before you need a heater.
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If you have the material laying around, you can mount the RCBS on a plate of steel or aluminum. Roughly double the real-estate the RCBS takes up alone. Then use an old iron and place it on the plate. The incidental contact is more than enough to heat everything up and you even have good temp control via the iron dial.
I also own a Star and a Magma bullet sizer lubricator. I use only lathesmith sizing dies with adjustable two piece punch for the Star sizer for 9mm, 38, 357 bullets. The Magma does 44 and 45 caliber bullets in a variety of weights. The one bullet feeder is shared between the two sizers. The sizing dies were custom made by lathesmith and do not have any extra holes to plug or unplug. They were carefully thought up to size and lube as many sizes as possible with nothing to configure except the punch height. The Magma uses several punches with lock nuts to control the height and the punch heights were carefully recorded in my setup book. a setup from 44 to 45 takes less than 5 minutes and is 100% accurate. I don't do large runs of 44 mag in 215 and 240 gr SWC bullets nor do I do large runs of 250gr SWC 45 cal bullets but using the sizer lubricator would still be faster than trying to powder coat them in my opinion.
I can size and lube far more bullets in 1 hr than I would suspect any of you can powder coat in the same amount of time. Powder coating just isn't as fast and time efficient for me. With my two sizer/lubricators in the process of going full automatic they will be even faster.
Okay. I got the lubri-sizer. The SPG lube works just fine without any heat. Now all I gotta do is figure out why the lube gets all over the bullet. Doesn't seem to matter how I set the adjustments.
I messed with it some more this morning. I have determined that there simply is not enough adjustment in the depth stop to make the lube groove line up with the holes in the sizing die.
Last edited by Froogal; 01-16-2020 at 12:13 PM.
82 year olde GONRA's well past my "use by date" so just sticks to wot has verked for decades!
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
~Theodore Roosevelt~
6bg6ba: How do 2 different Magma/Star sizers share a bullet feeder? Sorry, can't picture it, and I have 2 Stars with bullet feeders.
Froogal: I assume you have sealed off the holes that don't need to be used with lead shot.
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