Making LL from a commercial conventional lube?

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Canuck Bob

Active Member
Has anyone taken a standard lube for grooves and diluted it for a LL experiment? I am researching low smoke, low odour, and low toxicity commercial lubes. Since many liquid lube recipes use a great deal of solvent it got me thinking, rarely a good thing! It sure would be simple using the same lube but probably not possible in reality.

Bob
 
Ian

Ian

Notorious member
That wasn't meant to discourage you, just sharing my experience. I tried it about a hundred years ago with Felix lube, there's a thread on CB where I discussed it ("liquid Felix Lube"). Problem is even after finding a solvent that will fully dissolve everything and actually evaporate in a reasonable amount of time, you're left with a thin, sticky coating on the bullets. Zero advantage. Plus, it doesn't fill the grooves as such lubes are intended, so the mechanism by which the lube formula operates is defeated. The successful liquid lubes function differently and dry hard.
 
Eutectic

Eutectic

Active Member
About the only thing I do with some of my past lube experiments when they are not to blend into something else is thin them with oil and use it like a cream to lube bullets going through push through type sizers...

Pete
 
Rick

Rick

Moderator
Staff member
The Hornady Unique is what I use on bullets that I size without lube for heat treating. No need to lube the bullets with it, just a small amount on the fingers as you handle the bullets to place in the die is all it takes.
 
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