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rcav8r
01-21-2013, 03:18 PM
I want to install a temp probe for my Lyman 450 luber/sizer and the heating pad I bought for it. Do I want to drill and tap a hole in the luber sizer, or the heating pad, and where?
boltons75
01-21-2013, 03:20 PM
I just installed mine on the aluminum heater base.
snuffy
01-21-2013, 10:24 PM
Drill & tap the TC into the base of the luber. Like this;
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I'd be afraid of hitting the heater element in the aluminum plate, certainly wouldn't do it any favors.
That TC has ¼X20 threaded nut on the ½ in TC probe. It works great by-the-way! I'm using Carnuba Red, at 90 degrees, it flows just right.
HATCH
01-21-2013, 10:28 PM
Before I got my star heater, I just used a round eyelet TC.
Just mounted it on one of the 1/4 inch bolts that hold the heater.
On my star heater there is a hole on the left side. I think I will tap it and put a heli-coil in.
cheese1566
01-21-2013, 11:21 PM
My heater element is directly under my Star in an alum block. I put my straight style meat probe probe a little ways away in the same block, not too far and not too close... just to give some distance.
When I turn it on, I give it about 15-20 minutes for the heat to reach the upper areas of the Star-pump area and lower section of the resevoir. After playing for a while, I found the temp that works good for me and noted it on the PID box.
Works for me.
HATCH
01-22-2013, 07:47 AM
What you want is a reference point. I honestly can care less on what the exact temp of the lube is.
I just know at my reference point the temp was 115 degrees for the lube to flow good.
I will have to set it up on the star heater.
boltons75
01-22-2013, 09:35 AM
You could also use some plumbers epoxy, and attach it to the sizer that way. That stuff holds very well.
theperfessor
01-22-2013, 10:25 AM
Snuffy, that's the type of TC I use to monitor mold temp. It's a little more work to drill and tap instead of just drill but I can put the hole in places I can't get a long enough hole for a probe.
snuffy
01-22-2013, 03:10 PM
I was using that type of TC in a hole drilled into the bottom of the lee pro-20 bottom pour pot. It leaked! Drip art to be sure![smilie=1:
I plan on building another pid to control the lubrisizer. That would prevent having to re-program the pid for the pot after using it to control the sizer.
Right now, I have a dimmer switch I rigged up after seeing one on here somewhere.
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