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    Automated Size & Lubricator?

    Anyone know of a manufacturer that makes an automated size and lubricator?

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    Magma engineering

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    The Magma Lube Master: https://www.magmaengineering.com/lube-master/

    I've got one, but the weak link is the M-A Systems collator.

    Hope this helps.

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    Thanks for the heads up on the Magma machine. Anyone else make one?

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    You can 3D Print your own collator.
    Look in the Special Projects forum.

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    Didn’t someone just post some commercial lube-sizers for sale in bst? Post was very short on details, and had no pics, but I got the impression that they were not from Magma.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thump_rrr View Post
    You can 3D Print your own collator.
    Look in the Special Projects forum.
    I know nothing about 3D printing, but I doubt what I've seen in 3D printing posts about collators would be capable of keeping up with a Lube Master, which sizes and lubes bullets nose first at the rate of 6,000 bullets per hour. Normally, one Lube Master will handle the output of two Bullet Masters, if everything is running right.....

    Hope this helps.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JimB.. View Post
    Didn’t someone just post some commercial lube-sizers for sale in bst? Post was very short on details, and had no pics, but I got the impression that they were not from Magma.
    Yes, it's beeser.
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    Quote Originally Posted by beeser View Post
    Thanks for the heads up on the Magma machine. Anyone else make one?
    Here is an Australian made sizer. Does not lube the projectile. Used with Hi-Tek coated projectiles.


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    Any idea what that costs?

    Hand Sizing is the worst.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dansedgli View Post
    Any idea what that costs?

    Hand Sizing is the worst.
    about $6000 AUD which is around $4550 USD

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    I guess I'll use my star for a while longer. :P

    Nice that is available locally though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dansedgli View Post
    I guess I'll use my star for a while longer. :P

    Nice that is available locally though.
    Commercial high volume machine. Bit of an overkill for hobbyists.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dansedgli View Post
    I guess I'll use my star for a while longer. :P

    Nice that is available locally though.
    A Star will size around 1000/hour. Hardly “the worst” IMO. No, it’s not THAT much fun but it’s better than trimming cases.
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    Ballisticast made an automatic sizer/lubricator and a hand powered one with a feeder.
    There was a guy in Murfreesboro TN that made copies of the Magma.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jatz357 View Post
    Here is an Australian made sizer. Does not lube the projectile. Used with Hi-Tek coated projectiles.

    I like how compact you made it, mine sits a fair bit higher due to how i mounted the motor and the slider setup, i have more travel which will limit the speed at which it can run, i think my maths worked out to be just under 3,000 per hour.

    It may not be up to the speed of yours, but sure beats hand sizing!

    I like how easy it is to swap sizing dies! just drop them in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dansedgli View Post
    I guess I'll use my star for a while longer. :P

    Nice that is available locally though.
    Did you know you can add a bullet feeder to your Star?
    Bullet Feeder for one Caliber $125.00
    https://www.magmaengineering.com/magma-star-lube-sizer/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Valley-Shooter View Post
    Did you know you can add a bullet feeder to your Star?
    Bullet Feeder for one Caliber $125.00
    https://www.magmaengineering.com/magma-star-lube-sizer/
    I have bullet feeders on three of my Star Sizers. The others don't have them. I load my bullets into plastic tubes for the bullet feeders, and I've got enough tubes to handle about 1,000 bullets, depending on the length of the individual bullets.

    Sizing and lubing is much faster with the bullet feeder, but if you factor in the time it takes to fill the tubes, it's pretty much a wash time wise between manually feeding the machine from an Akro bin, or using the feeder. A collator would be much quicker, if it reliably fed the bullets either nose down, or nose up, depending on how you're doing the sizing. One of my machines does a much better job with nose up, and I made a nose punch that perfectly fits the profile of the bullets I feed through it the most. That one is fed manually from a bin. Most of the others are used to size nose down, only requiring a flat punch to push them through the die.

    Hope this helps.

    Fred
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    That is the issue, it only takes one flipped the wrong way to cause my setup to jam up on me. Reliability is pretty good, i catch most when they fall into the tube and remove them, but one always gets past.

    found for hard to collate ones (in my machine) that me feeding the wheel one by one helps keep up with the sizing rate. I put one in, and it rotates around and knocks the others to make them go into the collator wheel. Hard to explain, but it means i need to stand there and load a handful of projectiles in one at a time. to make things go faster and easier.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tazza View Post
    I like how compact you made it, mine sits a fair bit higher due to how i mounted the motor and the slider setup, i have more travel which will limit the speed at which it can run, i think my maths worked out to be just under 3,000 per hour.

    It may not be up to the speed of yours, but sure beats hand sizing!

    I like how easy it is to swap sizing dies! just drop them in.
    The idea was to keep it compact and solid. Needs to be able to size millions being a commercial machine.

    There is a model in development that will have a longer stroke for long projectiles like 300 blackout etc and a changeable die plate so different style sizing dies may be used.

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