Some years ago (in the '80's I believe) when I cast an awful lot of boolits for pistol shooters I used a hand cranked lubesizer. This was fine but when you are doing 1000's of the little things it tends to wear out bits of your body and I got repetitive strain injury (tennis elbow by another name). Well, as I had very good parents and even though I was old enough to have my own family they bought me an automatic lubesizer.
After a lot of years the old electrics died and I bought a PID temperature controller through the Cast Boolit forum. All well and good but I am not skilled at anything electrical and my feeble attempts in installing the device failed. Nearly a year or so later my good friend Andre visits me from the States to escape the boredom of sitting around his Glaswegian and semi senile in-laws whilst his wife did wifey things for them!
Andre is not one to sit around and chill out but seeks out stuff to do. No.1 on my list is to get the Magma up and running again as I have 10k boolits to size and lube. The so and so took all of 10 minutes to sort it and get it running!
I then gave him another challenge. I have lubesizer number 25 from Magma which I guess dates from the 70's or very early 80's. I had it from Mountain and Sowden if any of you remember them? I got it as part of a deal and kept it for spares. Anyway, under guidance from Andre we have renovated the mechanical and drawn up a list of parts needed to get it up and running again.
I have to acquire another PID to get the lube heating running as the original electrics are really primitive, even to my untrained eye.
Trouble starts there as I need a 115v version of the PID and I have to rewire the machine or wait for my pal to return next year.
Magma automatic lubesizers
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Magma automatic lubesizers
Purveyor of fine cast boolits.
All round good guy and VERY grumpy old man.
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Re: Magma automatic lubesizers
may be some on ebay.
Re: Magma automatic lubesizers
We have got hundreds of them. One might be of use to you but I would need more details of what you actually have got to determine wether one of them will work for your application.
Model numbers and what exactly are you using it for. Pictures of the unit would help.
Model numbers and what exactly are you using it for. Pictures of the unit would help.
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