ironhat
Member
I jsut bought an old but serviceable Lyman #450 bullet sizer/ lubricator - my first experience with this process. I had no idea that the lube for these things was this stiff! I haven't gotten it bolted down to the bench yet but I had to put the thing close to the wood stove to get the ram to move and the sizing die out of it. I see that $40 will buy me a heating pad for the unit but that's about $39.55 more than I can spend right now. Have any of you used something in place of the stock heating unit? I was thinking that I could heat the casting up with a small ceramic space heater and cycle it on/ off as the lube got cold and stiff. What do you think?