Bees wax plus Vaseline mix?

STIHL

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The more I have thought about this, this is a straight up beeswax/Vaseline mix. I’m pretty darn sure I cooked it in the house. And I’m not cooking oil in my house! I think I liked the idea of it being all “natural” and the components were easy to get. I had run both in the hose. I’m thinking I may have went slightly over 50-50, maybe 60-40 because fatter it cooled it fairly hard I can squeeze it and make it move but just sticking my finger in it it’s somewhat hard.

correcrion it’s really damn hard. It will take a heater to get it to flow in the sizer. It smells of nothing but a light Bees wax honey smell since I poured it up. Definitely Vaseline and Beeswax!
 
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fiver

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if your referring to the simple lube mix,, you don't cook it.
you just dump everything in, stir and pour out when the wax is melted.
 

STIHL

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Well I may have used the term cook incorrectly. I just heated this to wax melting and Blended it good and bam I have a pound of it. It’s definitely wax and Vaseline. Maybe tad lanolin. That is it.
 

JonB

Halcyon member
It seems there is some continued confusion over the very simplistic Beeswax/Vaseline lube
and
Fiver's recipe called "Simple Lube"

I just thought I'd add the original recipe here.

Fiver's 2012 post from the other forum (updated 2016)
simple lube.
a few people have asked me about a simple easy to make lube.
and here is an easy to make no fuss lube.
the ingredients are easy to find.

i call it simple lube.

4 oz's beeswax [by weight solid]
4 teaspoons of white petrolatum [vaseline]
2 teaspoons of two stroke oil [regular ol dollar store type]
2 teaspoons of atf [i use dexron]
you can add 1/8th teaspoon of lanolin if you wish.

here is the cooking instructions.
melt the beeswax dump everything in and stir.
pour out to cool..

works in a lubrisizer with room temp,and should make a decent pan lube too.
[i don't pan lube so haven't tried it.]
you can add a third tsp of 2 stroke oil if you want it a little softer [or for quite cold weather].
it's pretty tacky but stays in the lube grooves when rattled around with other ******* [bullets].
 
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Missionary

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I am more leaned to use olive oil than Vaseline. But then I also am a bit more inclined to grab a flintlock for just a nice walk about a farm or river bottoms.
I guess one day I should give BW/ olive oil a velocity test. Just never saw a need to push it with all the other lubes we have on hand.
Still tastes good on toast though.
 

Spindrift

Well-Known Member
Most of us, who have been casting bullets for a while, have them. Those little bags and boxes with bullets, that for some reason have been put aside. Maybe because they were lubed with a lubricant we no longer use, or because we have just preferred other bullets.

I decided to tidy up a little in my reloading room. And my favourite form of tidying, is when the mess in question can be loaded in a metallic cartridge, and returned to Mother Earth at ballistic speeds!

I had (among other things) a small batch of NOE311-221 (311284-clone), pan lubed with «simple lube» designed by @fiver .
I used lithium grease insted of vaseline. They shoot well in my Rössler Titan alpha, 30-06, with 24grs Norma 200. Norma 200 is an awsome powder for cast bullet loads, by the way.
Shot at 100m, 0˚F (Brrr), 5 shots (one of the holes is actually from two bullets), 1MOA. Simple lube is good stuff.

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