Die maintenance?

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Onagoth

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Do you guys perform any regular maintenance on your dies? I have a lee 4 die pistol set which I have loaded around 1500 rounds with and haven't yet done anything to them

Thanks in advance
 
Clean my rifle dies every 100 rounds and I only run perfectly clean brass through them. I had some dies scratching brass in the past due to build-up and now go overboard to prevent it.
 
1500 rounds, yeah i'd clean them...

i pull mine apart and clean them often, so much lube buildup. also i dont clean/tumble my brass so cleaning my dies often is a must, say every few hundred rounds is an average. Lee dies that is.
 
For pistol I am sure you have carbide dies and do not use lube so it's not as important as some people are saying. I don't know what the "ideal" time is to clean carbide dies. I haven't cleaned mine yet.....:redface:
 
If I'm loading lead bullets, I will periodically clean the inevitable build up of bullet lube, especially the seating die.
 
Well, I recently started using lube every 15 or 20 rounds with my carbide dies, just to keep things smooth.

Any idea how to clean them....do all the dies come apart???
 
oh sorry pistol dies i was thinking rifle dies... yeah i have carbide pistol dies too and reloaded thousands of rounds through them, and have never cleaned them.

though i do somtimes pull apart and clean the Expanding/charging die.
 
i lube the odd one too. to take em apart, should be able to unscrew the top and pull out the decapper, just be sure it doesnt fall through the bottom when you loosen the top...
 
joe-nwt said:
Hoppe's.
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+1 Really is quite easy, just like cleaning a gun with a .5 inch bore, that only has a 3 inch barrel. I find only my sizing dies ever need cleaning. The 22-250 needs by far the most often cleaning, the 300WM not so much, and 45 acp hardly ever. Hoppe's, couple patches, takes about 30 seconds. Just unscrew the decapper, clean that, clean the die.
 
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