I just got a hold of a used RCBS lube a matic 2. I'm new to reloading. I'm trying to clean this thing up so it will be ready to go when I need it. It came with no instructions. How do I get the old tube of lube out of the chamber that it goes into?
I have unscrewed the large nut that the T-handle goes through out. There appears to be a threaded washer sitting on top of the bar of lube. It won't budge. I was thinking of applying some heat with a torch to melt it out. I think this thing has been sitting idle for a while. Any advice greatly appreciated.

Try the RCBS home page. They have an E-mail form of Q/A; and a hot line,(Mon.-Fri.). Just a note on passing, a lot of guys used to outfit their luber/sizerz with heating elements to get the lube to flow more evenly into the grease grooves. Is it possible that heat was already used to get the lube chamber that nasty ???

My Lube a Matic has a ratchet type box wrench that came with it. To lift the threaded washer pressing down on the lube, you turn the wrench over, and turn the shaft that runs thru the lube chamber to unscrew that washer. Takes a lot of turns, but it eventually will come to the top, and out, of the lube chamber.
BTW, you can't see it right now, but that washer has an O ring seal on it. If you tried putting too much heat to the lube chamber, like with a torch, you'd probably melt, or burn that O ring.

My Lube a Matic has a ratchet type box wrench that came with it. To lift the threaded washer pressing down on the lube, you turn the wrench over, and turn the shaft that runs thru the lube chamber to unscrew that washer. Takes a lot of turns, but it eventually will come to the top, and out, of the lube chamber.
BTW, you can't see it right now, but that washer has an O ring seal on it. If you tried putting too much heat to the lube chamber, like with a torch, you'd probably melt, or burn that O ring.

Yes! I got the washer with the o-ring out before I put the heat to it. I tested a different peice that was all metal with the heat first. I got all of the old out and have it pretty well cleaned up. I can't imagine that stuff flows without heat. It is very stiff and sticky. Is it suppose to flow thru there without
heat?

Deuce

Some lubes work with just the pressure of that washer, some lubes are designed to work with a heating device on the machine....I don't know whether you could tell one type lube from another just by looking.
The instructions on the lube package will tell you which type lube it is.