Carnauba wax from McMaster Carr

[mugsie]

I just noticed McMaster Carr sells carnauba wax in flake form for $20.49 per pound. They say this is a "hard" wax. Do you think this would be any good to add to the Felix lube in small amounts? Since it's the same stuff as in Johnsons Paste Wax, I would think it would be excellent as a Felix additive. What say ye?

[rvpilot76]

Carnuba seems to work well for the Lar's Carnuba Red lube that I'm so fond of. It's inexpensive as well.

[cbrick]

Flakes is how carnuba comes. Sure it will work in any lube that you wish to harden, the more you add the harder the lube. Carnuba is a hard brittle wax and I have never been much of a fan of "hard" lubes, once I read this article it became crystal clear why.

Lubricating Cast Bullets by Glen Fryxell (http://www.lasc.us/FryxellLubeCastBullets.htm)

Rick

[Horace]

Go to www.the-sage.com carnauba wax at $7.15 a pound.

HORACE

[standles]

Was just fixing to say McMaster Carr is my place of last resort on about anything due to what I consider inflated prices on most things


Steven

[leftiye]

Standles and Plus +1. Look on ebay, lots of people selling this and thangs like lanolin MUCH cheaper than elsewhere. I think Felix has said that a couple of tablespoons is a good thang.

[Ricochet]

JPW has very little carnauba wax in it. The solid wax it contains is mostly microcrystalline paraffin. And as packed, it's something like 80% mineral spirits.

[John Boy]

Horace - thanks kindly for the link. Some of the best prices on the Internet for fixed oils that I've seen. I use lanolin - jojoba and grapeseed is several of my lubes for BPCR
http://www.thesage.com/catalog/FixedOil.html

If you know of a cheap site for Japan Wax - post er' up - the stuff is darn expensive on the sites I've found