Is the lubrisizer dead?

[Rottweiler]

I have a star lubrisizer. Since I got into powder coating there is no lube in it and it identifies its self as a boolit sizer

[Beagle333]

Originally Posted by Rottweiler

I have a star lubrisizer. Since I got into powder coating there is no lube in it and it identifies its self as a boolit sizer

Wow. That's dedication right there. I love powdercoating but I ain't givin' up my two Stars as lubers.

[bbqncigars]

My Sharps likes its boolits lubed. The same boolit with PC doesn't shoot as well. I can also run 200 boolits through the Star faster than I can make them via PC. Yeah, I also tried just sizing the PC stuff with the Star, but the gun said NO. In this case, size doesn't matter.

[BBarn]

I've basically stopped casting bullets. I tried different alloys and different diameters in a few different revolvers and got tired of cleaning up the barrel lead. Plus, cheap lead is getting hard to find. So for not much more money I can buy plated bullets and save the mess. I spent a good bit of money on bullet casting equipment and enjoyed casting bullets, but the results I sought eluded me.

[dahermit]

I spent a good bit of money on bullet casting equipment and enjoyed casting bullets, but the results I sought eluded me.

If you would list the problems you were having and the particulars (loads, guns, lube, etc.), I am sure that those problems could be remedied. There have been cast bullets used successfully in firearms since the invention of gunpowder.

[BBarn]

I may take you up on that. It will take me some time to put a decent summary together. If I do so, I'll start another thread to keep from derailing this one.

[jaysouth]

Kind of late on this thread.

I tumble lube anything shot below 1,200 fps in Ben's liquid lube.

For the velocity/pressure ranges of 1,200 to 1,600 fps, I powder coat.

At velocities above that I run heat tempered hard alloy bullets through a Lyman or RCBS lube/sizer with MML+.

I am experimenting with Hi-Tec, but have not perfected that yet. I know of a more advanced hobbiest that used uses Hi-tec, heat tempers the final cure and then lubes in MML+. He gets good accuracy at 2,600 in a 30-06. I am not there yet.

[kmw1954]

I'm late too.

When I 1st restarted Handloading I also thought about casting and have been a forum member over at Cast Boolits for as long as I've been here.

While I was shooting revolvers all I shot back then was either Speer or Hornady cast lead because they were readily available, cheap and there was no internet to search.

So while studying the subject I found that recycled lead around these parts is almost impossible to find. Illinois did away with lead wheel weights years ago and the metal recyclers won't talk to anyone because it's a hazardous material. Easy supplies have vanished.

Next comes all the problems I have read of people having while trying to start casting for the 9mm because of the tapered case and also the great variance in barrel sizes. Still thinking of looking for molds for the 380acp and trying that though.

[shootniron]

Mine is...powder coating killed it graveyard dead.

Since my first batch of powder coated bullets...I have never conventionally lubed another bullet and no plans to resume.

[USSR]

I don't do plastic - either guns (Glocks) or bullets (PC). My Lyman 450 gets fed White Label BAC lube and turns out really nice bullets.

Don

[Chainsaw.]

Im a powder coater, I see no positives of traditional lube over powder coat save for it you are already set up to do lubing. But then, powder coat takes very little to equipment, I think Im invested about $25 into it. Once coated I use the cheap lee push through sizers, which is a sizer...but not a lubrisizer, so to the question "is the luberisizer dead?".......maybe?

[Grey_Lion]

My casting direction has "matured" :-) I now cast soft 9mm rounds to use as cores in my .40 custom hollow points swaged using annealed 9mm brass. Manufacturers are simply too proud of their JHP. And I love testing my rounds for spread and fragmentation. It is development of the craft of bullet making. Right now there's forum members CRINGING that I'm using up "perfectly good" 9mm brass to make .40 hollow points but fear not.... I only use the oddball crap 9mm brass which there seems to be PLENTY of.

[GTOne]

Powder coating has brought casting back in a big way, it is huge compared to just 5 years ago. There is little reason to go with old school conventional lubes for bullets.

[USSR]

Nope. Used it just yesterday and seems to be working fine.

Don

[jaguarxk120]

Those big Keith 44 bullets still like the 50/50 mix from my Lyman luber/sizer.
Right now I can't see starting something new when the Alox/Beeswax work for me.

[FrankenMauser]

I hate Alox.
I size everything.
I still haven't tried the Hi-Tek that I bought three (four?) years ago.
I don't want to powder-coat. Too much mess. More equipment to clutter the little space that I have.
But I can lube and size at my bench, on a rainy day, with the Lyman 45 and 450. ...And the bullets and firearms don't seem to mind one bit.

The luber-sizer is not dead here.


However... I have some suppressors coming, and do intend to use them with rifles that sometimes get cast bullets. To help myself out with cleaning, I'm going have to eventually start baking some projectiles with the Hi-Tek.

[Chainsaw.]

Hmm...What mess? Tuperware with powder and beads in it, put the lid on, shake shake shake, take lid off, pick bullets out and onto bake tray, cook, done. No mess.