I have pan lubed bullets in the past.
I have tumble lubed with straight LLA and a LLA and liquid floor wax.
I only did this with non gas checked boolits.
I'm now starting to use a checked boolit in 7.62x54R. I use aluminum checks I got from a guy on here.
The checks are not easy to get on straight or tight.
I size with Lee push through dies.
I was wondering how others get them on.
I tried by just pushing the boolits in by hand. Not easy and bothers my arthritis.
I have the Lee App press. I took the shell holder from that and put the push rod from the .430 size kit in it and put it in the top of my Challenger, put the push rod from the .314 set in the ram.
Setting the check on the push rod, boolit on the check and held straight I then raised the ram to seat the check.
This worked. The handle of the press was in about the middle of the stroke and was hard to get consistent and it was easy to flatten the nose of the boolit.
I got to thinking about trying to build something with the right size hole and with a rounded nose punch.
Anything I thought of I don't have the tools to make.
I thought about what I do have. I have some Lyman 310 tool sets. I have an adapter to put these dies in a regular press.
I looked at what I had and the 30-30 set seating die had a round nose shaped seating screw. I put this and the adapter in the top of my APP with the .314 push rod in the bottom. With one of the boolits with a seated check on the push rod, moved the upper die station down to the bottom of the stroke. I then adjusted the die and seating screw down to touch the nose of the boolit.
I then tried seating a check with this set up. It worked much better. A bit of adjusting and when the press was at the end of the stoke the check was seated fully and straight without flattening the nose of the boolit.
I also found if I screwed the die in a bit farther I could bump the boolit diameter. Both the nose and body of the boolit could be made bigger.
I have heard that sizing boolit in a lubri-sizer does this a bit.
I have tried tumble lubing the boolits then checking as described then sizing to unsure there is no leading as well as the check is held on.
I then pan lubed the boolits with Ben's Red lube. This seemed to work well.
I tried pan lubing then seating the checks, then sizing. This was a bit more messy. the Ben's Red is a bit sticky and gets on my fingers then gets all over.
I'm experimenting with order of the steps to keep things cleaner.
Ben tumble lubes his after they go through the lubri-sizer so the boolits have the hard waxy coating to keep things neater. I think if I find the right combination of steps I can keep things a bit neater.
Leo