Anyone know of a manufacturer that makes an automated size and lubricator?
Anyone know of a manufacturer that makes an automated size and lubricator?
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.
Fred
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. - William S. Burroughs.
Thanks for the heads up on the Magma machine. Anyone else make one?
You can 3D Print your own collator.
Look in the Special Projects forum.
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.
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.
Fred
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. - William S. Burroughs.
Any idea what that costs?
Hand Sizing is the worst.
I guess I'll use my star for a while longer. :P
Nice that is available locally though.
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.
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.
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
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. - William S. Burroughs.
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.
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.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |