450 Lyman problem adjusting to get bullet lubed.....

[afish4570]

Boiled the old lube out of 450 using my Harbor Fr. brush burner to heat a 5 qt. pickle can of water..... Replaced the pressure screw and reassembled with Lars 2500 lube. Now I can't seem to get it to lube my Lee 401, dia. , 175 gr. FP that worked ok before ......despite all my adjusting to no avail. Been getting lube under boolit, none where it belongs. :groner::groner:afish4570

[462]

Turn the adjusting screw down in increments till the boolit enters the die deep enough to allow lube to go into the grooves. Play with, you'll get there.

[GP100man]

Start with the boolit high & adjust down, maybe reduce lube pressure a bit or reduce heat to kooler setting .

Sometimes all it takes is 1/16 of a turn of the stop bolt !

[Char-Gar]

When you start with a truly clean machine you have to pressure lots of lube into it to get going again.

[largom]

When you start with a truly clean machine you have to pressure lots of lube into it to get going again.


+1 Might as much as 1/3 of a lube stick.

Larry

[afish4570]

When checking my loading notes on what top punch I have been using I casually glanced at it......I grabbed RCBS # 595.....punch was too large to fit into die and allow me to adjust bullet deep enough to be lubed. After reviewing my notebook and following everyones suggestion I used the 565 punch that I had been using in the past...Problem solved. Probably should spend the $$ for the Lyman #43 that is the correct size. The 565 fits ok and I have been using it for quite awhile on my 40 cal. 175 FP Lee mold afish4570:cbpour::cbpour: