star lubrisizer

72chevelle

August 18, 2002 04:50

What can anyone tell me about a star lubricizer? I bought it with some junk in a farm auction. The owners manual had a date of 1981. It has some saeco dies with it. What parts are common with other sizers? It seems to work fine. Thanks for any information.

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  cpermd

  August 18, 2002 06:57

  They are great machines and the fact they drop the bullets out the bottom is wonderful.
  Want to sell it??
  cpermd@centurytel.net

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  joeaf1911a1

  August 18, 2002 07:34

  The Star lubra sizer is by far the greatest. Dies are of a bastard
  thread though. Star went out of bussiness and all rights and parts
  for the luber and reloading press were purchased by a outfit in Texas, I believe, who still make the same machines and parts. possibly two different outfits (?). I used to have the addresses, but
  no longer. You should use solid stick lube, not cored lube due to possible air pockets. If you use a heater, Bear Lube (if it is still made) from Texas, the long dark blue solid stick heated (120 degres)
  worked best for me for .38 and .45 lubing. It should lube about 20
  slugs before tightening the lube handle again. Very good purchase.

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  ATF

  August 18, 2002 08:03

  As I remember, (sometimes not too well) you cannot seat gas checks with the Star as it ejects out the bottom.other than that it's a excellent fast machine.
  
  
  
  
  
  ATF

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  Iconoclast

  August 18, 2002 08:11

  Magma Engineering handles the product now. If you want to do high volume pistol bullets, this is the way to go!! Although small, IME, Magma has a level of customer service up there w/ RCBS & Dillon.
  
  http://www.magmaengr.com/
  
  The comments by others above on the design & use of the tool match my own experiences.
  
  Edited by - Iconoclast on 08/18/2002 12:13:06

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  72chevelle

  August 19, 2002 04:26

  Thanks for the information. The owners manual says you can seat gas checks but you have to put a piece of flat metal on top of the sizing die,place a bullet and gas check on the flat metal,seat the gas check,remove the metal plate and size the bullet as normal. If anyone needs a copy of my literature let me know.

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  Iconoclast

  August 19, 2002 07:47

  72, the whole idea of using the Star is high speed, high capacity. If I were going to use gas checked bullets (and I often do), the Lyman & RCBS products do both operations at once without adding / removing extra parts. JMO, but the Star shines at pushing through a bunch of plain base bullets in jig time and for most handgun applications, the gas check is simply an unnecessary extra cost.

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