Favorite lube
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L Ross
Well-Known Member
Exactly!
Ian
Notorious member
I can easily PC 500 in an afternoon using two trays and a small pair of smooth-jaw nodleneese pliers. I hold one handle in each hand like log tongs, grab the bullets perpendicular to their axis, tap tap on the container lip, and place base-first on the foil-covered sheet metal. Takes longer to read that than do. Can have a batch of 80 plain-base coated and on the pan before the 22 minute timer goes off. If gas-checked, I have been wiping the bases on an OC foam block before placing on the pan.
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RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Like Will, I have OCD and don't powder coat for that reason. Takes me ten times longer to do it. Can't stand it if it isn't perfect looking.
JonB
Halcyon member
Of the commercial lubes I've tried, I really did like C-red the best, especially for it's application characteristics. yeah, you do need heat to get it to flow through a lubesizer, but once you get that figured out, it's easy to repeat. I like how C-red sticks to the bullet, and when applied with heat, it glazes over so there is absolutely no tackiness to it.
I never did any cold weather/cold barrel testing, so I only know what others have said about that.
I never did any cold weather/cold barrel testing, so I only know what others have said about that.
fiver
Well-Known Member
I get almost 400 9mm bullets on one tray. and 300 sumthin on the other.
with the amount of time I cook the bullets I get the whole tray filled before the one cooking is done.
I cannot do a whole jumble blob of lead and powder and toss it in the oven.
I can't do it with cookies, puff pastry or toast, I'm not doin it with bullets.
with the amount of time I cook the bullets I get the whole tray filled before the one cooking is done.
I cannot do a whole jumble blob of lead and powder and toss it in the oven.
I can't do it with cookies, puff pastry or toast, I'm not doin it with bullets.
Ian
Notorious member
Yup, once. Bullets got a lot of bald spots from dumping and shaking the BBs through the screen, and a lot more from ripping off the wire. They also had bunps, lumps, and little horns sticking out all over which interfered with nose punches and any sizing operation that placed a punch on the base.
Will
Well-Known Member
Does the C Blue leave the bullets sticky after storage?
Reloader762
Active Member
I started out standing my bullets up on their bases both pistol and rifle from day one, I like the results I get doing it that way an I can easily have the next batch ready to go into the oven by the time the first batch is cured.
Tall rifle bullets give me no issues keeping them upright when you make sure your bases are nice a flat and you keep your tray close to the oven and move slow. It not really that time-consuming or hard to do once you get your technique down. My oven an tray are small but I can easily do several hundred an hour.
Tall rifle bullets give me no issues keeping them upright when you make sure your bases are nice a flat and you keep your tray close to the oven and move slow. It not really that time-consuming or hard to do once you get your technique down. My oven an tray are small but I can easily do several hundred an hour.
Gary
SE Kansas
Really like Smoke's Translucent Copper, also Smoke's Silver.
Reloader762
Active Member
Winelover
North Central Arkansas
Recently, there was a thread on CB about Carnuba Blue regarding heat with a Star. OP was having issues without heat. Lars chimed in and stated he doesn't own a Star and as such never tested it in one. Apparently, is flows fine in other lubers, at or around, normal room temperature..................low to mid 70's.
L Ross
Well-Known Member
Reloader762, those finished bullets look so nice I find myself thinking about buying a little convection oven, non stick foil, powder stuff, making a rack and making those pretty bullets. Then I think, but I am getting no leading, am getting decent accuracy, can't load any hotter for fear of target damage. When I absolutely have to kill a deer for the freezer, I have more odds and ends of jacketed bullets laying around the loading room and from ammo given to me that I haven't broken down yet, that I'll never need to buy another for the next 100 years. But I applaud the efforts of all you guys powder coating. Progress only comes from experimentation and dissatisfaction with the status quo. Trouble is I'm not dissatisfied.
Oh, and my favorite lube? Ben's Red with a light wash of BLL afterwards. Commercial lubes? NASA for black powder and Carnuba Red for smokeless.
Oh, and my favorite lube? Ben's Red with a light wash of BLL afterwards. Commercial lubes? NASA for black powder and Carnuba Red for smokeless.
I find it interesting that when someone asks about lube on this site that the thread "almost always" drifts off into PCing.
I have always used 50/50 on all my bullets and am not interested in PCing.
It seems to work well for those of you that do PC and I am not trying to create an issue here but I find the thread drift interesting.
Just call me old fashioned...dale
I have always used 50/50 on all my bullets and am not interested in PCing.
It seems to work well for those of you that do PC and I am not trying to create an issue here but I find the thread drift interesting.
Just call me old fashioned...dale