Lubrisizer Question

[tommag]

When I put a boolit through my Lyman 4500, I have to turn the boolit and run it through again to get complete coverage. Is there some adjustment I can do to fix this? Hopefully my pic will turn out well enough to explain my problem. The one on the left has been run through twice and the one on the right only once.

[lead slinger]

Looks like hard lube???????? If it is, you need more heat to make it flow better.

[curator]

You need to crank up the lube pressure. It is insignificant or the lube is too cold to flow properly. Use a heat lamp to warm the sizer if it is cold in your shop. Sometimes just heating up the bullets works too.

[tommag]

Okay, the temp makes sense. It is about 30 in the garage. I had a 100 watt bulb on the sizer for about 1 h our and the heater element in the press turned on. The body of the press was warm/comfortable to the touch, but maybe not warm enough. I'll try more heat next time. Thanks

[GP100man]

if thats blue angel lube it likes 115f to 120f ,the batch i had did.
finished it up smelting WW!!!

GP

[ben1025]

Try a hair dryer

[Newtire]

So are you guys saying to use heat gun or hair dryer in addition to the heater plate?

That's the same thing I run into on my 450 where I have to rotate the boolit.

I'm using Felix-Lube and Carnauba Red mostly.

[monadnock#5]

I've found that with enough heat and pressure I can get complete fill out in the lube grooves with my 450. Of course I also have lube under the boolit and a lube ribbon coming out from underneath the sizer. With not enough heat and pressure I don't have lube where I don't want it, but also don't get complete fill out. If there's a happy median out there I have'nt found it yet.

Ken

[tommag]

if thats blue angel lube it likes 115f to 120f ,the batch i had did.
finished it up smelting WW!!!

GP

Yep, it's Blue Angel. 115-120 is way warmer than what I had.

[Newtire]

Thanks monadnock,
That's pretty much the way mine looks too. Crank it up and keep feeding the boolits before the lube has a chance to fill up the hole where the slug is supposed to go. All in all though, a pretty good rig for lubing with anything except Liquid alox and then it's hard to beat the Lee push thru.

[monadnock#5]

I agree Newtire,
For all its flaws, I still like the 450. It gets the job done. If I were to try something different, I'd go lowtech and give pan lubeing a try. It almost looks like fun!

Ken

[ELFEGO BACA]

I use a small hair dryer 'aimed' at the lube reservoir on my Lyman luber to improve flow of lube.