Is there an easy way to clean a lubrisizer?

[Swamp Fox]

I’ve run as much of my old lube out as I can, and want to clean out my lubersizer of all the hard, dried lube on the inside before I start back to living with some new I have. Is there an easy way? So far I’ve been scraping out what i can reach, but there is plenty left. I thought about heating it some, maybe a quick trip in the oven? Don’t tell my wife!

[rcslotcar]

The last time I boiled mine (I have 3) in water.

[Conditor22]

Use your smelting setup and boil it

[Toymaker]

I put a couple of layers of paper towels under mine and use a heat gun on it. Everything runs out of it. Then while it's still warm I twist a paper towel up and push it through holes or into cavities and twist it more.

[smithnframe]

Use a heat gun!

[Land Owner]

Set a 40W light bulb under a towel that is over the lube-sizer. Let it sit there - turned on - for a few hours. ALL of the baked on crud on the inside will melt down to the bottom where it will drain, so put a can under the die hole for drippage.

[15meter]

I use an infared heat bulb left over from layer chicken days when they were purchased day old, 400 at a time. 50 years later and the bulb still works! Even better the chickens are loooooong gone.

I slide a trash can under the mounted lubrisizer and point the bulb at it, 30 minutes later it is completely melted out. I suspect a 100-150 watt incandescent bulb would do the same, just a little slower.

[Swamp Fox]

I’ve got an infrared heat bulb, don’t know why I didn’t think of that. I will give that a try, if it doesn’t work I’ll boil it.

[HP9MM]

Is there something wrong with the lube in it? If not, put the new lube in and let'r rip!

[Winger Ed.]

If you're in a hurry-

Take out the plunger and the die.
wave a soft flame propane torch around it.

Don't burn the paint, just heat it up real fast.
All the mess in there will run right out.

[uscra112]

Boil it. To prep for painting, boil it again in a solution of TSP, (trisodium phosphate). Sold in paint department at True Value, because nothing strips greasy old kitchen walls better.

[greenjoytj]

After boiling it out, maybe a spray can of brake cleaner, sprayed into the nooks & crannies.
Just keep the spray off the rubber parts.

[Zingger]

Like those above- I have used my heat gun to great effect. Good luck in whatever you do!

[Ed_Shot]

Use your smelting setup and boil it

+1 ....This is the easy and quick way.

[6bg6ga]

Absolute best way.... send it to me and go out and purchase a new one. This way you have no mess or fuss and have a new unit. Meanwhile I will clean up your old unit and I will have another to add to my collection. Its a win win for both of us.

[Springfield]

I put old ones I get and put them in the oven set on warm on top of a cookie sheet lined with paper towels. Simple and easy.

[skeettx]

What lube sizer, Lyman, RCBS, SAECO, Star?

With the Star, you will need to pull the sizing die and the spring and piston, and the top guts.

[RED BEAR]

I would suggest heat. Heat gun maybe but be careful mine would melt paint heat lamp and waste basket under it. I use one of wife's old hair dryers .it only takes a few minutes to start melting.

[DocSavage]

Heat gun. I suspect the wife might have a say about using the oven method. If I might add something on the heat gun I needed one to thaw some frozen pipes and found a gun from Wagner that was inexpensive and variable heat settings which for meant I didn't have to worry about setting the house on fire while doing an imitation of the Statue of Liberty