Drying Rack for Ben's Liquid Lube

[KHornet]

Seems like just something else to take up space in my reloading room. Looks nice I agree, but I have had such good luck with BLL and wax paper, think I will stay with it unless somebody can show that the wire box will improve accuracy over my wax paper. Of course I am old and crotchety and pretty well set in my ways, and am very slow to change. Hate to fix what ain't broke!

 

[Ben]

KHornet :

unless somebody can show that the wire box will improve accuracy
I don't believe that will be happening.


It is however, a bit quicker.
I've begun to ask where I'll put the rack when not in use ?
I work in my basement. I think that I'll hang it from the overhead over against a wall when I'm not using it. Then it will be out of sight and out of mind.

Ben

 

[Brad]

Ben, his basement is already full.
I really think a rack like this, and a fan, will speed the process a bunch. It also will make rolling the bullets over a thing of the past.

 

[Snuffy]

I wonder how well an old food dehydrator would work? Might have to reinforce the trays or make hardware cloth trays similar to Ben's. Maybe just the base of the dehydrator sitting under Ben's rack would work.

 

[Brad]

An old food dehydrator would be about perfect. Lots of air flow, gentle heat. Lots of trays for lots of bullets. Excellent idea.

 

[Ian]

...and entirely unnecessary, unless it just floats your boat. I throw them on a smoothed-out garbage bag, point a manicurist's fan at them for a few minutes, shake them around once, wait a few more, and done. Ben's drying rack would be an improvement to that in that it would last about forever and not need cleaning very often.

 

[Snuffy]

Well.... If I had an old dehydrator I'd have to try it anyway.

What I do right now is, warm my bullets up in a toaster oven a little, then tumble lube. The warm bullets seam to take up more lube and they are more evenly coated. They also seem to dry faster.

 

[Ian]

Well.... If I had an old dehydrator I'd have to try it anyway.

What I do right now is, warm my bullets up in a toaster oven a little, then tumble lube. The warm bullets seam to take up more lube and they are more evenly coated. They also seem to dry faster.

There ya go. We paid just shy of $600 for ours about three years ago, on sale, so I shudder to think of putting bullets in there. Warming them up somehow always improves the coating. Nine months out of the year I can put them out in the sun for a couple of hours before the first coat and they're almost too hot to handle.

 

[KHornet]

Doubt Ian is as old and set in his ways, but I like the way he thinks (at least regarding BLL).

 

[Snuffy]

There ya go. We paid just shy of $600 for ours about three years ago, on sale, so I shudder to think of putting bullets in there. Warming them up somehow always improves the coating. Nine months out of the year I can put them out in the sun for a couple of hours before the first coat and they're almost too hot to handle.

I was thinking more along the lines of a $5 garage sale RONCO.

 

[Ian]

Doubt Ian is as old and set in his ways, but I like the way he thinks (at least regarding BLL).

I don't have room for a bunch of extraneous crap. I don't have room for my GOOD crap. In the last couple of years I've really started prioritizing my tools and gadgets, like how many shovels does one man really need? How many do I need? I don't have enough bench space at any given time to dry bullets, and I don't use BLL all that often. So I keep 20 gallon bag wadded up in a cool whip container along with a bottle of BLL and saves on space.

 

[Missionary]

Good morning
Thank you for the good photos of a good idea. Certainly beats many of the other ways I have gone about to air dry tumble lubes.
Mike in Peru

 

[35 shooter]

Guess i need to get busy and make one of these too as BLL has become a favorite very quickly for me.
I now actually LOVE tumble lubing.

I've been doing small batches of 50 or less bullets while testing this lube, so the wax paper thingy was fine for that. For doing volume lubing, this should cut the time on the handling them one at a time and standing them up on their bases to almost nothing.

Oh, did i mention i really like tumble lubing with BLL? I like the range results i've been getting too!

 

[Ben]

Whether I'm doing 30 cast bullets or 300 now, I use my drying rack.

It is everything I'd hoped for .

With respect to BLL, it works well with pistol or rifle bullets .

Ben

 

[Dale53]

I'm a copycat!

I found some hardware cloth at the Garden Store in Home Depot (of all places) and took it over to my brother's place. He offered to make the Ben's LL Bullet Drying Rack for me (and him, of course). Using scrap material, here' what we ended up with:


My brother cut is finger when he picked up the rack to bring it over. He went back inside the house, and covered the edge of the hardware cloth with corners:


I have my first batch of Lee .32 TL wadcutters drying as we speak. Actually, they dried in just a few minutes!:


Thanks to Ben, I not only have an excellent Tumble Lube product but also a drying rack to speed up the process!

Dale53