homemade tumble lube formula

[superior]

Hi! I've been experimenting with a homemade brew of tumble lube using paraffin wax and synthetic bearing grease @ 50/50 ratio. When the mixture cools it gets really thick. I can still squeeze it out of the little plastic bottle I use, but it comes out a little chunky. I suppose I could still tumble boolits in it but I tried to thin it out with some baby oil and I think I used too much because after sitting on wax paper overnight the boolits felt oily. Is there a way that I can make my mixture flow better but also dry better? I'll be using it on my TL-312-160's. Is it ok just to blob out a chunk of the stuff and tumble that way?

[fourarmed]

I would try thinning it with something more volatile than baby oil. Mineral spirits, acetone, or some kind of alcohol, maybe.

[357maximum]

I would go the mineral spirits route ...the acetone route made some pretty cool self hardening foam with beeswax on my experiment.

[bohokii]

hmm anything that drys quicker than mineral spirits? like maybe naptha or lacqur thinner turpentine?

[mroliver77]

I would say it is chunky as the two are not mixing.
J

[superior]

I dont have any mineral spirits but I do have some methanol. I'll try that next time. Thanks!