{"id":10535,"date":"2020-11-25T05:49:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T13:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=10535"},"modified":"2020-11-25T05:49:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T13:49:33","slug":"star-machine-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/11\/25\/star-machine-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Machine Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve followed the story about my resurrected Star reloader, you&#8217;ve read about good buddy Bruce Williams&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/starmachineworks.com\/\">Star Machine Works<\/a>.\u00a0 Bruce bought the fixtures and other production equipment from the original Star Machine Works company, and he has made a business of restoring complete reloaders and offering parts for these grand old machines.\u00a0 He is the go to guy when it comes to Star stuff, and his work is stunning.\u00a0 My Star resurrection is a ham-and-eggs approach by a guy who really didn&#8217;t know what he was doing bringing a Star back to life; <a href=\"http:\/\/starmachineworks.com\/\">Bruce&#8217;s work<\/a> is the gold standard. Bruce sent a few photos to me of his restored Star reloaders, and I thought I would share them with you here.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s\u00a0 a photo of Star that came to Bruce for restoration in the &#8220;before&#8221; condition:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10538\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Star-Universal-46R-2-Before-002-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Star-Universal-46R-2-Before-002-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Star-Universal-46R-2-Before-002-600-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an &#8220;after&#8221; photo of that same fully-restored Star:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10540\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Star-Universal-46R-2-After-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Star-Universal-46R-2-After-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Star-Universal-46R-2-After-600-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are a few closeup photos showing a few of Bruce&#8217;s other restorations:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10543\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Star-Universal-SU130-1-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Star-Universal-SU130-1-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Star-Universal-SU130-1-600-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10544\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Star-Universal-SU130-2-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Star-Universal-SU130-2-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Star-Universal-SU130-2-600-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10545\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Star-Universal-SU130-4-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Star-Universal-SU130-4-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Star-Universal-SU130-4-600-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bruce&#8217;s prices on a restored Star reloader are, in my opinion, way too low.\u00a0 I know the amount of work I put into mine to get it working, and there&#8217;s no way I would sell it for what Bruce gets for one of these machines.\u00a0 Had I known what a Star reloader is (and what the machine can do), I would have just bought a <a href=\"http:\/\/starmachineworks.com\/\">restored Star from Bruce<\/a>.\u00a0 His work is impressive.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Check out our reloading and other firearms-related stories <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ExhaustNotes.us\/Guns.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see alerts on new blogs?\u00a0 Become a subscriber for free!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve followed the story about my resurrected Star reloader, you&#8217;ve read about good buddy Bruce Williams&#8217; Star Machine Works.\u00a0 Bruce bought the fixtures and other production equipment from the original Star Machine Works company, and he has made a business of restoring complete reloaders and offering parts for these grand old machines.\u00a0 He is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/11\/25\/star-machine-works\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Star Machine Works&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,84],"tags":[1518,1612],"class_list":["post-10535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gear","category-guns","tag-star-machine-works","tag-star-reloaders"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Star-Universal-SU130-2-900.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10535"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11106,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10535\/revisions\/11106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}