Originally Posted by
georgerkahn
All sounds great, but I wonder if the factory length is requisite both to sizing 100% central of boolit, as well as the top holes allowing lub to b pumped in. I do NOT know -- your ides sounds do-able -- but on ('specially) short boolits? An evil niceness of the bottom-first sizers (e.g., Lyman 450) is the requisite machined-to-match-nose top punch which keeps boolit centrally aligned. The top-first Star has not this feature, so the boolit getting canted may (?) be an issue.
I'd love to hear of your success trying this!
BEST!
georgerkahn