RCBS lube sizer heat plate

canuck4570 said:
I looked at cartridge heater and how many watts would I need

I saw on that was 1500 watts to much yes no
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I have 2 sitting on my bench (next to the guts of a PID controller) waiting for the right aluminum slab to come along.
They are 100w and I am wondering if that's too much heat. In the past I just put a lamp with incandescent bulb up against the side.
Lots of people like the aluminum plate and clothing iron just for simplicity but it takes some space.
 
Being a cheapskate, I used some form a gasket silicon and fastened a couple of resistors (10W I think. Can't remember the exact values at the moment). Soldered them to an old power cord from a wrecked heatgun I got from work and bubba'd in an inline fuse. It's not pretty. but it works.

Auggie D.
 
gnmontey said:
What's a cartridge heater?

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A length of resistive heating wire embedded in refractory cement and housed in a tubular metal sheath. Plug it in and it gets warm.
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The electric heater element that Lyman sells for their 4500 Lubrisizer is just a standard 3/8" cartridge heater.
 
BattleRife said:
A length of resistive heating wire embedded in refractory cement and housed in a tubular metal sheath. Plug it in and it gets warm.
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The electric heater element that Lyman sells for their 4500 Lubrisizer is just a standard 3/8" cartridge heater.
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I have a flat "under the sizer" heating element that Lyman also sells, has the proper hole spacing drilled and taped for both Lyman and RCBS sizers. Mine is slow at heating (don't know the wattage) but if I turn it on an hr before use it does the job, actually some on a previous thread complained that their warmers get too hot and turn the lube liquid and it leaks thru the sizer holes but I have never had that problem. Mine has no temp setting just plug-n-play.
 
canuck4570 said:
I looked at cartridge heater and how many watts would I need

I saw on that was 1500 watts to much yes no
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Got an electric frying pan? My bet is that it would be rated about 1500w.

Think this way. 15, 100w incandescent light bulbs all bunched together. Does that sound like fun temperatures?

At a guess, I would figure buying a handful of 50 or 60 watt output heaters might be the way to go. If you planted all three in the aluminum block, set up switches to cut off two after the base is up to temp. Or build a temperature controller and adjust as required. That would also allow the use of too much of a heater.
 
Here's my setup.

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Two 470 ohm 10W power resistors wired in series, stuck to the body with copper silicon, 1 amp inline fuse. Takes about 30 minutes to warm up, then I'm off to the races (except all I use now is PC). It did serve me well for many years.

Auggie D.

Auggie D.
 
Ken T2 said:
40 watt heater cartridges will work.I wouldn't go over 60 watt.A motor speed controller can be used to control the amount of heat.
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I plugged in my 100w cartridge yesterday for about 10 seconds. It's pretty plain to see that a good sized heat sink and the PID controller are going to be needed.
I'd say something smaller is going to be easier to use.
 
I found a 1.5inch chunk of alumenum in the junkyard. Drilled a 1/2 inch hole into it and stuck a old soldering iron into it. My old lubesizer is bolted onto this contraption, works like a charm.

Sorry my caps lock in the keyboard is stuck, have to figure out how to get this unstuck on this old computer.

Cheers
 
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