Originally Posted by
geargnasher
I've been making soap grease at about 30-50% soap concentration. That's a large, 4-1/2 ounce bar (fresh, very "wet") to about four ounces of oil.
One reason to go with a petro wax is that it allows a total change in the lube formulation: If one can get the soap in with the wax instead of oil/vaseline, one can use a lot LESS oil/vaseline total. My problem with Longhorn lube is I had to use at least a 50/50 ester oil/soap grease, and to use enough of it to make the lube as soft as I wanted, there ended up being too much slick ester in the mix and that caused purge flyers, even in my .45 ACP with a 4" barrel. I would like to use a softer wax, less oil, and be able to melt the entire mess together. Fortunately, I found that Redline oil plasticizes the beeswax better than other waxes, so adding more beeswax, some Fluidmaster ring, and a couple ounces of Babybel rinds fixed it right up, took care of most of the flyers, still soft, not too thixotropic, and not too slippery, yet slippery enough in the cold.
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