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From: gmk@falstaff.mae.cwru.edu (Geoff Kotzar)
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Subject: Re: PRODUCT WARNING FOLLOWUP
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Date: 29 May 91 16:24:32 GMT
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In article <34979@mimsy.umd.edu> gmk@falstaff.mae.cwru.edu (Geoff Kotzar) writes:
#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.

I realize that this was not directed to the person I intended.
This was meant to be in response to John Bercovitz's complaint
concerning the inability of his Lyman 450 to size down a cast
bullet from .404 to .401 for a .40S&W/10mm. Sorry about that.
I hope this can be of some help.            Geoff Kotzar.