Easy Way to Remove Sizing Dies from Lyman #4500?

[superbee]

Does anyone have an easy, efficient way to remove sizing dies from your Lyman #4500 Lubrisizer? Perhaps a simple tool you've adapted for this job?

Right now my method involves a lot of banging on the die from the bottom using a hammer and the small end of a larger Allen wrench, and I just have to believe there is a better way.

I thank you in advance for your expertise!

[Frozone]

The method provided by Lyman in the instructions has always worked fine for me.

[Dale53]

Use a hair dryer or heat gun and heat the lube/sizer up to at least "warm". There is no need to get it any warmer than about 125 degrees (about all the average person can stand without being burned). That softens the lube which is the prime reason the die doesn't want to come out.

I have a heater for my lube/sizers and I just turn the heater on for fifteen minutes or so. Problem solved. Lyman used to package a small wrench for the die hold down nut with the sizer. If you turn that wrench sideways underneath the sizer you can use the handle to raise that die right out of the body (I don't have a picture to make this clearer). It DOES help to loosen the set screw before you try to remove the die[smilie=1:...

Dale53

[superbee]

The method provided by Lyman in the instructions has always worked fine for me.

Bought it used; instructions were not included.

[superbee]

Thanks for the tip!

"It DOES help to loosen the set screw before you try to remove the die..."

Boy, this is a tough crowd...:D

[waksupi]

I put a .45 boolit on top of the lower ram, lift the handle, and out she comes.

[DLCTEX]

+1 on the boolit, or pliers handle, wrench, or other spacer. +1 on heat too.

[Walter Laich]

I've used a small block of wood with good results. Heating before hand is the secret, though.

[462]

I use Lyman's four-hole, multi-use, super-spiffy die wrench.

Run the adjuster nut all the way up -- this allows maximum movement of the push rod -- turn the wrench sideways, and raise the handle.

I used to use the lock nut wrench, but it became misshaped and didn't fit the nut properly.

[doctorggg]

If you received the Lyman wrench for removing the nut that holds the die in. Don't do what I did when I first started. I didn't warm the 4500 and following Lymans' instructions promptly crushed the large end of the Lyman wrench. I had a hard time getting Lyman to replace it. Now I use the one made on this site by "the perfessor" That is money well spent.

[Spawn-Inc]

pending the size of the die, i just use an empty shell, mostly 45acp. put it on the lower/return ram.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

Add HEAT... that's the big secret to easy die removal.

and be very careful reinstalling the die retention nut. It's easy to cross thread it...also remove any lube in the threads...AND I highly recommend theperfessor's die retention nut driver.
Jon

[trapper9260]

I remove the screw from the top like stated with the wrench and then I had cut a 44mag junk case to the lenght that will fit under the bolt under the the press that I use to push the die out like some had stated ,I do leave the spent primer in the case .I always done that when I was trying to get the die out at first and it was a pain . Do not have anymore problems after. Just make sure the thing you put under is bigger then what the hole in the die is .I do not have to heat the sizer or anything this way.