Felix lube advice

[Pistolero]

I purchased some purported Felix lube from someone (can't remember) on the other
site, and have not been able to use it. I was cleaning up some stuff in my basement
and ran across what I am 98% certain is that lube, although it is not marked.... seemed
unnecessary at the time (dummy). In any case, it is a tan hard-ish lube, frankly feels about
like slightly cruddy beeswax, more of a hard soap feel (sort of) than a squishy lube feel like
LBT soft blue or NRA 50-50.

Am I looking at the right stuff or is this something else? I do remember when I got it that it
seemed entirely impossible to put through my lubrisizers without heat, and I don't have or
want heat. I considered at the time adding something to make it flow better. I asked Felix
on the site and never got anything like a straight answer, always "Well, that might work, you
should try it.", when asking if Vaseline or ATF would work to make it flow without harming
the performance.

Any ideas on 1) is this what Felix lube should look and feel like?
2) anyone "thin it down" to flow thru a lubrisizer at room temp and did it work as
far as the lubing process AND not mess up the lube range performance?

Thanks

Bill

 

[freebullet]

That stick is Felix formula with 5ish% extra bwax. The boolits in the jar hold the same. The sticks will fingerprint with light-med pressure. I use warm but not hot just to make it flow easy through the star.
I would be apprehensive about adding anything not in the og ingredient list without direction of one of our lube gurus here. My guess would be a dash more soap or lanolin would help increse flow/tack.
You could probably get it to flow with minor heat from a hair dryer, heat lamp, or quick torch warming of yer sizers lube tube. I always seal up the lube to avoid having moisture content issues/fluctuations.

 

[Brad]

Makes me wonder how much carnuba was added. Mine, with no carnuba, is always a pretty soft lube. Easily worked with the fingers, a little sticky.
Extra beeswax also could have been added to make it stiffer.
Best way to soften it is Vaseline. Maybe a tablespoonful to 8 ounces of lube. Even that is a bunch. You can always add more but you aren't gonna remove any!
ATF could also be used but I would keep that to 5 ml, a teaspoonful, to 8 ounces. It will soften the lube far quicker.

 

[KHornet]

I don't have a heater for any of my Lube sizers, but for hard lubes like Lars Can Red, I use a hair drier (from good will--2.00) on high for a minute or two around the dies area ant the tube. Once softened it is good for 200-250 bullets, before I feel a need to warm it up again.

 

[sundog]

That certainly was not from the 'big batch' that Felix and I did years ago, unless someone got some and reformulated it to a harder lube. The stuff from the 'big batch' was put up in small, disposable aluminium loaf pans. It does look like FWFL however. Standard FWFL normally runs through a lubesizer at room temperature.

Probably the reason you never got a definitive answer from Felix about what to do to thin it was that Felix was a great experimenter and discoverer.

Have you shot any of those bullets pictured? Did they work good?

How much lube do your have? Is it worth messing with?

I'm kinda like Brad. Try some with vaseline and see what happens. If it doesn't work, then you know not to do that again. If it does, render the stuff, and use it up. No reason to let it sit around.

Or, put it up for sale, take the proceeds and get something you know works for you.

Just thinkin' out loud...

 

[Ian]

+3 add Vaseline.

 

[Pistolero]

Thanks, I will try some Vaseline. I was leaning towards ATF for some reason, but the folks
who have been experimenting the most say Vaseline, so I'll do that.

The pictured lube looks exactly like Javelina (NRA 50-50) to me and the stuff I have
looks far waxier and lighter in color.

Bill

 

[Maven]

Pistolero, ATF works, but your work area will smell like a transmission repair shop if you're not careful when you reheat the FL to blend it. Vaseline is much easier to deal with too. Btw, my wife saves all those lip balm tubes of Vaseline that go rancid (and they do!), which I blend into my lube concoction to soften it and to ensure it stays in the lube grooves on [long] stored CB's.

A bit late, but my tub of Felix and Corky's "Mother of All Melts" batch of lube was an off white sort of very pale gray-green color and a bit too hard for me. Vaseline helped soften it.

 

[Pistolero]

Thank, good to have someone with FWFL that looks more like what I have.

Bill

 

[Brad]

I wonder if someone used some paraffin to stiffen the lube? It would make it much harder and more brittle. Even if this is what was used the Vaseline is the right choice to soften it.

 

[Pistolero]

Ok, that is what I will try.

Thanks.