don45
10-07-2007, 11:21 PM
After 30 years of using a Lyman 45 I upgraded to a Saeco Lubrisizer with a Lyman heater. After all the great info from this site, and the desire to get my newly acquired Model 70 375 H&H to the range (in proper form) I cast up a bunch of 375449's and lubed them with Lar's Carnauba red.
Saturday I set up the sizer and started lubing. Although it's been a long time, I used to run 1000's through my old Lyman 45. I still remember problems, mainly a bunch of lube going on the bottom of the boolit, as I recall, mainly with gas-checks. I remember I always solved this somehow and everything worked great. My first run with the new saeco resulted in all kinds of problems. First, the top-punch doesn't fit the Lyman boolit. I still haven't figured out how to cross the top-punches to the saeco. Any references available? Back to the lubing problems. The issues were lube squirting out around top and bottom of sizer die and tons of lube filling on the bottom of the boolit. I gave up after about 30. Today I tried another session, and before I received an email about lube temp from lar's, which said to keep the temp and pressure down. I decided to kick up the heat by letting it warm up for 30 minutes or so and to keep the pressure way down from the other day. This gave me almost complete success. I still get a little amount of lube coming out around the top of the die, but not much. I still get a little lube on the bottom punch but nothing more than a smear remains on the boolit. I don't like the way the bottom punch sits 1/4 inch down in the die. On the 45 I always had it configured so that the bottom punch was flush with the top of the die when all the way up. This way I could easily wipe off any excess. It doesn't seem possible to do that with the saeco, but looks like this is not a problem after all. Today I lubed about 200 boolits with very little difficulty and perfect results. Still just a slight marking by the top-punch, but not too bad. I am still thinking about something to stop the die leaks. Any ideas about this? Do I have something wrong? What about adding some kind of thin gasket or o-ring?
Now to load these babies and on to the range with my ouch and ouch. I found the nice article about the 375 in CastPics.
What a great resource and comradery here!
Saturday I set up the sizer and started lubing. Although it's been a long time, I used to run 1000's through my old Lyman 45. I still remember problems, mainly a bunch of lube going on the bottom of the boolit, as I recall, mainly with gas-checks. I remember I always solved this somehow and everything worked great. My first run with the new saeco resulted in all kinds of problems. First, the top-punch doesn't fit the Lyman boolit. I still haven't figured out how to cross the top-punches to the saeco. Any references available? Back to the lubing problems. The issues were lube squirting out around top and bottom of sizer die and tons of lube filling on the bottom of the boolit. I gave up after about 30. Today I tried another session, and before I received an email about lube temp from lar's, which said to keep the temp and pressure down. I decided to kick up the heat by letting it warm up for 30 minutes or so and to keep the pressure way down from the other day. This gave me almost complete success. I still get a little amount of lube coming out around the top of the die, but not much. I still get a little lube on the bottom punch but nothing more than a smear remains on the boolit. I don't like the way the bottom punch sits 1/4 inch down in the die. On the 45 I always had it configured so that the bottom punch was flush with the top of the die when all the way up. This way I could easily wipe off any excess. It doesn't seem possible to do that with the saeco, but looks like this is not a problem after all. Today I lubed about 200 boolits with very little difficulty and perfect results. Still just a slight marking by the top-punch, but not too bad. I am still thinking about something to stop the die leaks. Any ideas about this? Do I have something wrong? What about adding some kind of thin gasket or o-ring?
Now to load these babies and on to the range with my ouch and ouch. I found the nice article about the 375 in CastPics.
What a great resource and comradery here!