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From: gmk@falstaff.mae.cwru.edu (Geoff Kotzar)
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Subject: PRODUCT WARNING FOLLOWUP
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Date: 29 May 91 02:04:57 GMT
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I regularly size cast bullets down .008-.009 inch without
trouble, so I don't believe what Lyman has told you. To
use Lee's 350 and 405 .458 slugs in my Casull I have to
reduce their diameters from .460 to .451 and my Lyman 450
does the job just fine in steps of .003 inches. The only
times I have had the problem you describe is when I have 
put a new sizing die in the press.

An air pocket would sometimes develop which would prevent
the lube from getting in the die and only the packing grease
would be present to ease the passage of the first few bullets.
Once I really cranked down on the lube reservoir and got the
bullet lube into the die body things straightened right out.
There have been two occasions in recent memory that I would
have sworn that I had ruined a sizing die and strained the
press for all it was worth.