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Post by ridenshoot on Dec 25, 2023 9:41:56 GMT -5
What a great way to spend a rainy day, trying out a Lee pan lube kit that I found at an estate sale. I have a Lyman 4500 Lube/Sizer and a bunch of Lee push thru dies that I normally use for sizing and or lubing my cast bullets, but I saw this at an estate sale and thought it might be something new to try, clearly not a new concept, just new to me. Very simple but not very fast, the pan and cutter tool worked well for the 357 bullets, though the bullets were already sized in a Lee die so I didn't use the sizing tool in the kit. I was also able to lube some Lyman 429421 bullets using a cutoff 45LC case as a cutter tool, the case was a little short for the task so I cut off a 45-70 case to try next time. I'm so happy I bought that little cutoff saw from Harbor Freight, thanks GNAPPI. I used Alox lube and heated the pan in the toaster oven that I use to PC, this worked well. I placed the bullets in the holes created when the last set of bullets was removed, so simple.     |
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Post by contender on Dec 25, 2023 13:08:25 GMT -5
Looking good!
But I must admit to not using lube anymore,,, since I discovered & tried powder coating.
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Post by jeffh on Dec 25, 2023 13:38:35 GMT -5
It's fun. Great way to while away some free time - which has become rare, but I remember being broke enough there was nothing much more one could do. I pan-lubed a lot of little 32s for a neighbor's Charter 32 Mag right after I got out of the Army and before I found a job.
His "lube" was candle stubs and broken crayons. We were too ignorant to know how complex the whole lube thing was. We just did it because it worked and it was basically free.
Nice work! It's too easy to lose knowledge and skills from a simpler era, and this particular era wasn't that long ago.
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Post by ideal on Dec 25, 2023 16:37:17 GMT -5
I haven't pan-lubed in a coons age, but I do still have my first Lee kit like the one in your picture. Life was so simple in those days, what has happened to us all?
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Post by bigbore5 on Dec 25, 2023 16:47:43 GMT -5
It's fun. Great way to while away some free time - which has become rare, but I remember being broke enough there was nothing much more one could do. I pan-lubed a lot of little 32s for a neighbor's Charter 32 Mag right after I got out of the Army and before I found a job. His "lube" was candle stubs and broken crayons. We were too ignorant to know how complex the whole lube thing was. We just did it because it worked and it was basically free. Nice work! It's too easy to lose knowledge and skills from a simpler era, and this particular era wasn't that long ago. If you would have added some lard to the candles and crayons, you would have had my uncles lube he used for years. Never knew what color it would be, but it worked. |
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Post by axman on Dec 26, 2023 10:55:33 GMT -5
I just pan lubed some 50 cal Hoch bullets the other day with SPG.
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Post by revolvercranker on Dec 26, 2023 11:10:20 GMT -5
After I bought my first luber/sizer I never looked back at my LEE pan luber. I can find better thing to while away time.
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Post by jeffh on Dec 26, 2023 12:42:42 GMT -5
After I bought my first luber/sizer I never looked back at my LEE pan luber. I can find better thing to while away time.
Yeah, me too, but mine is a 45 and I hate using that thing. Still faster than pan-lubing.
That we have the skills and mental resources to do things "the old-fashioned way" is to be cherished though, whether we still do it that way or not.
If we HAD to, we COULD.
Lots of people out there today who wouldn't have the first clue how to keep shooting, stay warm and dry or feed themselves in leaner times.
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Post by sharps4590 on Dec 26, 2023 13:25:29 GMT -5
Probably, as with many on board, I started out pan lubing but, it wasn't with any kind of "kit". I don't remember them being available back the, late 60's/early 70's but, they might have been. I used the bottom of one of those large, Kiwi shoe polish tins and the appropriately sized case with the head cut off. Lube was beeswax and castor oil or whatever natural oil I could find. Later it was Lyman or Lee. When I acquired a Lyman #45 sizer/luber sometime in the mid to late 70's I didn't pan lube for decades. Then I acquired a Jost & Diehl, combination gun in 10.5 X 47R. I didn't have the proper die and as I didn't expect to shoot it often or much, I pan lubed. I still don't have a proper sizing die for the combination gun.
My original Lyman 45 finally died when a chunk broke out of the set screw boss that holds the die in place. I had long since acquired an RCBS sizer/luber but, had become used to having one with BP lube and another with smokeless lube. So, I bought another Lyman 45 and life is good again....lol!
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Post by revolvercranker on Dec 26, 2023 18:33:56 GMT -5
After I bought my first luber/sizer I never looked back at my LEE pan luber. I can find better thing to while away time.
Yeah, me too, but mine is a 45 and I hate using that thing. Still faster than pan-lubing.
That we have the skills and mental resources to do things "the old-fashioned way" is to be cherished though, whether we still do it that way or not.
If we HAD to, we COULD.
Lots of people out there today who wouldn't have the first clue how to keep shooting, stay warm and dry or feed themselves in leaner times.
My first one is the newer Lyman they came out way back in the 80's. I also have a 45, but I modified it with a nut that holds the H&I die, like the newer ones. Much better to operate now. |
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Post by bigbore5 on Dec 26, 2023 21:41:13 GMT -5
My brother in law calls me a sophisticated redneck because I can write cnc programs but have made my own flint arrow heads and gunpowder.
Nothing wrong with knowing how to do the old skills, even when taking advantage of the new. Like I can ride the Harley or a horse.
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Post by gnappi on Dec 27, 2023 10:47:42 GMT -5
I used to lube my 50 cal maxi balls like that!
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Post by revolvercranker on Dec 27, 2023 12:24:25 GMT -5
I used to lube my 50 cal maxi balls like that! I use to make lubers for 50 caliber Maxi Balls. The body is made of black walnut. You load the reservoir, put the bullet in the lube tube, push the plunger, lubes it, then push out the bullet with ejector plunger. Nice lubed bullets like in the pictures they show of them. No mess. |
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Post by 38 WCF on Jan 1, 2024 23:40:36 GMT -5
Oh, the memorys...
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Post by LeverGunner on Jan 2, 2024 14:44:54 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing. I started out pan lubing, with beeswax and crisco lube, using a Lee sizer like what's shown. I'd love to find one in .430, just because. I shot a bunch of 38's and 357's that were sized with that whack-a-mole sizer. I don't pan lube much anymore, but I retain my stuff for it, just because I guess.
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