Cleaning seat/crimp die

[Sparkola24]

Anyone have any tips on cleaning the blue lube out of the seat and crimp die? Getting pretty goopy up there..

Thanks.

[joelogic]

Brake cleaner but make sure to coat with some light lube.

[OldShooter32]

Leave it in the sun for a while. With our recent weather it will be clean!

[ireload]

You can use hair dryer set on high. It'll be enought to soften up the built up gunk to scrape off. The use a small diameter bottle brush to do a final cleaning. Just remember to keep the die hot with the dryer.

[CalTeacher]

you can also use mineral spirits, rubbing alcohol, and/or a nylon bore brush to clean it as you would a barrel. Mine gets pretty nasty at times from tumble lubing my boolits, and has to be cleaned out. Sometimes I'll just take a q-tip with some mineral spirits or alcohol and start swabbing.

[XDRoX]

If it's an ongoing problem look into Dillon's dies. They come apart with the simple removal of a pin and are very easy to clean. You don't even have to remove the die from the press in order to clean it.