Cleaning sizer dies

[AZPaul]

Could any one tell me how do you clean the lube off the sizer dies?
Thanks guys.

[mtgrs737]

Why would you want too? The lube keeps them from rusting, but if you must most any oil or solvent will do. I use WD-40 it helps to desolve the wax.

[crabo]

Heat gun will do it really quick. Set it on some newspaper and heat 'em up.

[R.C. Hatter]

spray with carburator cleaner - disassemble - punch lube from holes if necessary with small wood dowel- wipe off with paper towel - reassemble Ordinarily, I would leave the lube on for preventing rust, unless changing lube type altogether.

[Shiloh]

Most solvents will. Why are you removing it? Are you removing old lube to exhange for new lube in your lubrisizer??

Shiloh

[RayinNH]

Put the die in a tin can and pour a couple inches of boiling water on it. Let it sit a couple minutes and then remove it and take out the center pin, wipe it down to dry...Ray

[AZ-Stew]

Excellent avatar!

I just wipe them down with a paper towel to get most of the sticky mess off, then store them in the brown bottles my medications come in (after I've consumed the pills :roll: ). Those are more roomy than the containers the dies are shipped in. You may be able to buy some from Walgreens or whatever your local drug store is.

Regards,

Stew

[crazy mark]

A 30 min soak in a old peanut butter jar of mineral spirits. Pull them out and wipe them down. Haven't had any rusting problems.

[anachronism]

Wooden matchsticks are the perfect size to clean lube out of the holes in Lyman & RCBS sizing dies. When I sold my old dies, I boiled them, then cleaned out the holes as described above, then WD40'd them. It was probably more effort than it was worth for a $10.00 item, but I didn't like the idea of sending them out dirty.

[jonk]

I have yet to find a reason to clean them out. When changing lubes I just run in through and use the first 30 or so with a mix of both for plinking shots.

If I were to, I'd put them in the oven at about 200 in an old pan to melt most of it out, then a quick soak in a solvent of choice, followed by a blast of compressed air.

[wickerbill]

I use a WD-40 soaked shop rag and a tooth pick.
Bill

Helpful hint, if you have lube on the nose of your loaded rounds and you want to take it off. Spray a rag with WD-40 and wipe it off. works great.

[theperfessor]

I just scrape off the excess and use Hoppes #9. Works on a gun, works on a die, takes about 5 minutes.

[woody1]

Ed's Red
Regards, Woody