Originally Posted by
geargnasher
Another question, aside from making a work-stable Li/Na/Mg grease to any thickness you want, I'm curious why mess with magnesium soap grease at all? I wonder if it has some properties we've overlooked with the other thickeners.
So far we know this: Lithum grease is pretty clean stuff and makes good boolit lube. It's "thixotropic" in a loose sense of the word when mixed with petroleum waxes, not so bad with beeswax.
Sodium grease can leave a residue in the barrel, and loves to mix with water. It's very work-stable, though, and blends with about anything, including a few other thickeners.
Aluminum grease is very sticky and makes an outstanding binding agent in lube.
Calcium grease is waterproof and fairly work-stable, but *can* leave a residue in the grooves that bakes on hard and builds up.
Calcium sulfonate grease looks promising, but I'd like to try it in a lube that doesn't have moly in it too so I can see if the fouling it makes is moly fouling, gellant fouling, or powder/primer/boolit residue accumulating.
I haven't tried magnesium, antimony, lead, or any other soap greases yet.