Am watching for used Star Luber/sizers and would like to know if they wear out incase I come across a great deal but might be leary of it's conditon. Basically, my question is need I worry if it looks well used or are they like a Timex watch?

Alan

If properly used - unlike say an RCBS Rockchucker ram - the ram on a Star doesn't wear out. That means, from time to time, a drop of oil in the lubrication holes.

I had one that is now twenty years old and which I sized and lubed one to two ton's worth of lead bullets through. (I used to cast commercially - that's about 100,000 bullets BTW).

It is still going strong after I sold it to Leicester Shooting Centre about five years ago.

My RCBS Rockchucker from the same period? The ram on that seems loose indicating that it is about worn out. Yet I doubt if it done more than 25,000 "cycles".

the springs and the lube pressure piston (the small one) and the seal on the big piston are all wear parts that will eventually wear out but the avearge caster will probably go a lifetime without anything needing to be replaced.

I have 2 that I purchased new over 20 years ago they work like they did when new just a few drops of oil is all it takes. You never can know how a used luber was treated though.