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knightnut2000

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Lets see if they will make a sticky for lube recipes. List your best homemade lube recipes that has a proven track record with your favorite lead conicals. OR patch lube, OR a lube you buy off line even. Tell and show why it is in your opention the best. Don't be afraid to list 2 or 3 if you want the more the better. Then will ask for it to be added as a sticky. What say you
 
My recipe for lube is for my Remington revolver lube cookies. This is done by weight.
45% Sheep Tallow
45% Bees wax
10% Olive Oil
I do this in a double boiler. I take paper towels and fold one in half. I dip in the hot solution and let drain excess off. I then lay them out on wax paper and let cool over night. Then i take my cookie cutter and cut out the lube cookies.
Load powder, then load cookie, then load ball. Lube is a little stiff and can be made softer with a little more olive oil. Will try on my conicals for my TC Hawken and my Traditions inline. May use some BLL also as a sealer on these conicals.
 
Guys this is the Lube recipe that I use that I got from Bob Bowers known on this forum as Super91. He, as well as others,(Too many to list), use to be a major contributor on the original DWB forum.

Blue .451 Caliber Lube

Ingredients
9 Tablespoons Heavy Mineral Oil
5 Tablespoons Odorless Tasteless Castor Oil
6 Tablespoons Anhydrous Lanolin, slightly rounded
1 Tablespoon Carnuba Turtle Wax Car Wax Paste, Heaping
1 Tablespoon Ivory Soap shaved
1.5 Tablespoons Paraffin Wax
1 lb White Beeswax
2 Teaspoons Blue Candle Wax Dye (For Color ONLY, you can use any color dye you like)


Recipe
Place mineral oil, castor oil, paraffin wax, and anhydrous lanolin in a pot to heat. Once the anhydrous lanolin and paraffin wax has melted, bring the mix to medium heat until the mix begins to smoke. Add the shaved Ivory soap. The soap will foam and not mix in well till the final step. Add beeswax and blue candle wax dye. Stir until the wax has melted completely. Add a heaping tablespoon of turtle wax. Stir until the mix boils evenly and let boil until done, stirring occasionally. Bring heat to low and wait till all sediment stays on the bottom. Try to keep from having enough heat for the mix to smoke. Pour while hot into a container or a 1.5-quart crock-pot in you are going to use the Crock-Pot Lubing method. Continue pouring until you reach the sediment. Do not allow the sediment to enter the container.

Crock Pot Lubing
Heat mix in crock-pot on low heat until liquid. Take clear tubing with a 3/8" ID and cut about a 6" piece making sure the end is cut squarely across. Insert the nose of the bullet to be lubed into the tubing till you reach the first groove on the bullet. Dip the bullet into the lube, take out and hold in the air for a second or two. Wipe the excess off the bottom of the bullet on a towel and squeeze the bullet out onto a soft towel. Once you are done, start with the coolest bullets first. Run the bullet through your sizer die, and wipe off any extra lube. The only extra you normally get is a little extra on the nose. Let cool to room temperature overnight and you are ready to hunt!

Pan Lubing (What I do)
I currently melt my lube in a Dutch oven (Pot within a Pot). Then place my bullets into a silicone bread pan and pour the melted lube into the pan until all lands and groves are covered. I let the wax harden for about 1hr and then push the bullets out. If required, I then size them and wipe any excess lube off the nose.

Again, I found by letting the lube harden for about 60-75 minutes works best for me.

Here's a YouTube video on Pan Lubing and a recipe this guy uses. https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/sear ... tion=click.
 
" Stump Killer Lube "
This is supposed to be a good solid lube. I found it on one of the pages on this forum.
2oz - Beeswax. 8oz - Caster Oil. 1oz - Murphy's Oil Soap
Useing a double boiler melt the Beeswax completely after the Beeswax is melted add the Caster Oil and continue to stir until both components are thurally mixed together then add the Murphy's Oil Soap continue to stir until the frothing on top disappears completely then stir for another 2min. as this will make sure all components are mixed thurally. Set pot containing lube aside and let cool completely 1-2hrs should be long enough, at this time finger test the lube if your lube still seems to hard reheat lube and add more Caster Oil in in small amounts the lube is soft and paisty feeling. If your lube too soft for your likings reheat lube and add in very small amounts of Beeswax let cool and test again. Until you get the consitancy you want.
From the sound of it I would consider this to be a finger applied style lube for conical bullets.
 
image.jpg I made a little BLL ( well sorta ) this morning. Used what i could find. Odorless mineral spirits, Lee Liquid Alox, some liquid wood wax, and a touch of Lanolin. Will see what it works like. Gonna try it on these .4495 bullets for my 10" barreled CVA single shot.
DL
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DESPERATE LEE said:
View attachment 7375 I made a little BLL ( well sorta ) this morning. Used what i could find. Odorless mineral spirits, Lee Liquid Alox, some liquid wood wax, and a touch of Lanolin. Will see what it works like. Gonna try it on these .4495 bullets for my 10" barreled CVA single shot.
DL
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Oh man, if those were .50anything i would load up a bunch in 12ga slugs for home defense. I wish they were .454 so i could run 'em thru my ruger
 
edmehlig said:
Guys this is the Lube recipe that I use that I got from Bob Bowers known on this forum as Super91. He, as well as others,(Too many to list), use to be a major contributor on the original DWB forum.

Blue .451 Caliber Lube

Ingredients
9 Tablespoons Heavy Mineral Oil
5 Tablespoons Odorless Tasteless Castor Oil
6 Tablespoons Anhydrous Lanolin, slightly rounded
1 Tablespoon Carnuba Turtle Wax Car Wax Paste, Heaping
1 Tablespoon Ivory Soap shaved
1.5 Tablespoons Paraffin Wax
1 lb White Beeswax
2 Teaspoons Blue Candle Wax Dye (For Color ONLY, you can use any color dye you like)


Recipe
Place mineral oil, castor oil, paraffin wax, and anhydrous lanolin in a pot to heat. Once the anhydrous lanolin and paraffin wax has melted, bring the mix to medium heat until the mix begins to smoke. Add the shaved Ivory soap. The soap will foam and not mix in well till the final step. Add beeswax and blue candle wax dye. Stir until the wax has melted completely. Add a heaping tablespoon of turtle wax. Stir until the mix boils evenly and let boil until done, stirring occasionally. Bring heat to low and wait till all sediment stays on the bottom. Try to keep from having enough heat for the mix to smoke. Pour while hot into a container or a 1.5-quart crock-pot in you are going to use the Crock-Pot Lubing method. Continue pouring until you reach the sediment. Do not allow the sediment to enter the container.

Crock Pot Lubing
Heat mix in crock-pot on low heat until liquid. Take clear tubing with a 3/8" ID and cut about a 6" piece making sure the end is cut squarely across. Insert the nose of the bullet to be lubed into the tubing till you reach the first groove on the bullet. Dip the bullet into the lube, take out and hold in the air for a second or two. Wipe the excess off the bottom of the bullet on a towel and squeeze the bullet out onto a soft towel. Once you are done, start with the coolest bullets first. Run the bullet through your sizer die, and wipe off any extra lube. The only extra you normally get is a little extra on the nose. Let cool to room temperature overnight and you are ready to hunt!

Pan Lubing (What I do)
I currently melt my lube in a Dutch oven (Pot within a Pot). Then place my bullets into a silicone bread pan and pour the melted lube into the pan until all lands and groves are covered. I let the wax harden for about 1hr and then push the bullets out. If required, I then size them and wipe any excess lube off the nose.

Again, I found by letting the lube harden for about 60-75 minutes works best for me.

Here's a YouTube video on Pan Lubing and a recipe this guy uses. https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/sear ... tion=click.
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I think you just gave away the “Super Lube” recipe. I have meant to try and ask Doc for it but, was always too scared. He adds a little scent to his also.
 
sdporter said:
I think you just gave away the “Super Lube” recipe. I have meant to try and ask Doc for it but, was always too scared. He adds a little scent to his also.
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The Lube I posted and use is Bob Bowers recipe, not Doc's. Doc's Super Lube from what I remember is also great stuff. I use to melt it down and pour it into one of those Glue Sticks, or Chap Lipsticks that you can screw up as it wears away to lube my bullets.
 
edmehlig said:
The Lube I posted and use is Bob Bowers recipe, not Doc's. Doc's Super Lube from what I remember is also great stuff. I use to melt it down and pour it into one of those Glue Sticks, or Chap Lipsticks that you can screw up as it wears away to lube my bullets.
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I did the same thing with my first homemade lube, only into an old deodorant package. The lube was far to sticky for that. It ended up just being wasted. The stuff I’m using now, is about the consistency of chapstick so it would probably work much better. I often wondered if just using an all natural lip balm, or something like Burts Bees moisturizing salve would work good.
 
It may, I know Doc's Super Lube was great stuff, it's just I went through too much of it and decided to make my own. I too wished I knew what it was made with.
 
Trying something new for my bullets this time. Using 100g of beeswax, 100g lamb tallow, 20g of olive oil, and 20g of lanolin. Thru in some red candle wax color so i will know when i made this batch and whats in it. Took my 12 starter bullets and dipped then in the lube. Gonna roll them in my BLL in the morning and should be set for a range day real soon.
DL
 
Well i found a few more that is interesting.

Lead pots Lube. (Blackpowder lube)

6 cups unmelted soy wax.
½ cup Jojoba oil.
½ cup mutton tallow, or you can use beef tallow. I don’t like it as well.
1/3 cup unsalted lard.
1/3 cup liquid Bayberry wax.

This is a good lube I made it for my knurled bullets.
You can thicken this out by adding soy or using less to thin it or add more lard to make
it softer
If it gets to hot add Palm Vegetable wax or use block Bayberry wax instead of liquid
Bayberry wax.
Palm wax melts at about 160*

If you cant find Tallow it is easy enough to make.
Go to a butcher shop and ask for fat trimmings most will gladly give to you.
Cut it in small chunks or better yet grind it. Put it in a large pot and ½ the amount
of water and slow boil it for about 4 hours at a low temp.
Strain it out with a sieve or cheese cloth and cool it in the fridge.
When solid take off the solid white top and scrape off the bottom till it is clean.
By the way this stuff makes a darn good hand lotion for those bleeding fingers.
 
EMMERT'S LUBE

I have used Emmert's Home Mix for both Black Powder and Smokeless loads with excellent
results:
50% pure natural beeswax
40% Crisco
10% Canola Oil (all measurements by volume).
Melt using a double boiler (overheating damages the lube).

A refinement is to reduce the Canola Oil by half and replace that half with Anhydrous
Lanolin. So, the improved Emmert's is:
50% beeswax
40% Crisco
5% Canola Oil
5% Lanolin.
 
1995 Lube" - sourced from Paul Matthews

2 parts yellow beeswax
1 part Pure Neatsfoot Oil
1 part Murphy’s Oil Soap

(easy to make in 8-oz batches)

1) Melt 4 oz of beeswax in the microwave. Usually 6-8 minutes is about the right time.
2) Stir in 2 oz of Neatsfoot oil when beeswax is melted. Stir until the mixture is lumpfree.
3) Stir in 2 oz of Murphy’s Oil Soap, stirring continuously as the soap is added. Again,
mix until there are no lumps.
4) Pour into storage containers as soon as batch is well mixed.

Very soft and sticky. Will not melt in the sun, but works well in the cold, too.
NOT suitable for pan lubing.
 
541 Lube

5 parts beeswax
4 parts Crisco
1 part anhydrous lanolin, by volume

Melt and stir until thoroughly mixed before allowing to cool. A double boiler keeps it from scorching. It works well on conventional cast boolits, but I've never driven it beyond 1800fps or so. Hardness can be adjusted to suit by varying the Crisco or the beeswax. Melts at 130 deg F.

541 Lube Soft:

1 part 541
1 part Bore Butter/Thompson Center 1000 Plus in the tube, by volume.

I prefer the pine scented Bore Butter. Melt and stir thoroughly and allow to cool. Works great for lube cookies when made into sheets by melting in the outside bottoms of "butter cookie cans" on a level surface with a heat lamp, cooling, and putting in the freezer when solid, which will pop it loose. Also good for under-the-ball/boolit use in C&B revolvers with an over-the-powder card wad, on Maxis, Lee R.E.A.Ls
 

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