Bret,
This is what used with my last batch of BLL. It worked just as well as the the Johnsons product.
https://www.acehardware.com/departments/home-and-decor/cleaning-and-disinfectants/floor-polish/10074
".......waxes as it cleans............"
Makes me wonder what they're "cleaning" with, but if one knows anything about waxes typically used on woodwork, and knows a little about wood and finishes on woodwork, it should mean that they are simply using a suitable solvent to dissolve the old wax to "clean" (strip) it off to prevent a buildup of wax/dirt/ This would be a
good thing for us lethey kept it simple and used an old fashioned volatile solvent.
".............It actually is our Paste Wax in liquid form.............."
This is a good thing - assuming there's nothing weird about their version of "paste wax."
I know there were discussions about a substitute, but I didn't pay much attention because I already had three or four cans of the Johnson's. The way I use tumble lube, a bunch of it will end up in my estate sale. I handed off a thousand bullets to my visiting brother a couple days ago and had to check again to make sure I'd actually lubed them. If I've done it right, I have to
smell them to tell if they've been lubed. I leave a small note card in the container if I've only applied one coat. After the second coat, the note card is tossed, so if they smell like lube and no note card, they'd had two coats - point being that 45-45-10 or BLL goes a long way. I have to microwave my 45-45-10, and warm my bullets on the wood stove to get the coat as thin as I want it. BLL is MUCH more convenient to "make" as well as to apply.
I've failed on occasion to correctly mark which I've used, so I've inadvertently done some blind, objective testing. For the shooting I do, I can't tell a difference at the target.
Next time I mix BLL, if I ever have to, I'm trying Ian's 50/50 ratio and mixing it right in the Johnson's can. That Johnson's can is worth a few bucks on its own because it seals better than any other container I've used. LEE's squirt bottles don't hold up to repeated microwaving and the spouts don't seal well enough over the long period of time I tend to take to use four ounces of either lube. If I don't like the 50/50 as much as the original 60/40, I can just add the extra 10% and nothing lost.