At home I have my small glass bottle but in my range bag I keep the Ed's Red in one of those stainless steel flasks used for whisky (or the like). The kind of curved type, don't know what you call...
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Forum: Boolit Lube !
At home I have my small glass bottle but in my range bag I keep the Ed's Red in one of those stainless steel flasks used for whisky (or the like). The kind of curved type, don't know what you call...
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I just deleted a reply about Acetone (Ed's Red) in a PET bottle.
THEN i Googled and one plastic bottle manufacturer said that PET is no good for Acetone storage and that you should instead use...
Forum: Our Town
Felix M. Robbins
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Forum: Boolit Lube !
I went to Amsoil's web page and had a look att Amsoil Dominator. It doesn't seem to be an oil, they call it an Octane Booster. And the MSDS says it contains 60-100% kerosene.
My guess is that much...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
I wrote a reply but deleted it because I really don't know why this happens. But I've seen this phenomena with several different lube cookings and the lube seems to work fine anyway.
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Was it this product?
http://www.bird-x.com/bird-proof-gel-products-37.php?page_id=66
And a MSDS:
http://www.bird-x.com/filebin/pdf/instructions/Bird-Proof-Gel-MSDS.pdf
Forum: Boolit Lube !
One of the recipes for case sizing lube is castor oil and lanolin, approx 50/50 to make it firm enough for using the fingers to rub it onto the case before sizing.
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Eutectic:
Is it the Motul 800 2T "Off Road" variety you are using? Or the "Racing" type?
UTK
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=163190
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It can be somewhat difficult to get all of the old lube out of every nook and cranny.
I put the lubesizer in the oven at approx. 160 deg F for an hour or so (remove the plunger with O-rings first). ...
Forum: Casting Equipment
RCBS have changed their (formerly generous) warranty policy:
"Your reloading press, reloading die, manual case trimmer or bullet mould is warranted to be free from defects in material or...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
As an alternative to the risky cooking off of the solvent, why not trying to melt Paraffin- and Carnauba wax in a double boiler and then adding your LLA.
Read about this in the thread, post #11...
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Very interesting! Please report the results of your experiments.
Perhaps in a new lube thread?
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Do make some polish if you like. But for the lube itself use paraffin and carnauba only.
I would try melting 15 grams of Paraffin wax with 5 grams of Carnauba and add 50 milliliters of LLA instead...
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Why boil anything if you can use pure paraffin- and carnauba waxes and just add the LLA?
Of course, the waxes have to be melted first...
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Well, not exactly.
The MSDS doesn't say exactly how much of every ingredient there is, but I first made some polishing wax by melting 15 grams of Paraffin wax and 5 grams of Carnauba in a double...
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I never understood why a lot of combustible solvents should be cooked off and then some added back... Very risky.
Knowing that JPW is Paraffin wax, Carnauba wax and a solvent - why doesn't...
Forum: Cast Boolits
To verify the powder level in rifle cases placed in a loading block, I use a pencil with an O-ring located approximately 1/4" above case mouth when correct amount of powder.
That way I can easily...
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I Googled "Cetyl Esters NF" and came up with this supplier:
http://www.lotioncrafter.com/cetyl-esters-nf.html
Cetyl Esters NF
CAS No. 977067-67-6
Cetyl Esters NF is a wax mixture consisting...
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I have followed Felix-lube threads almost from the very beginning. Back in 2003 Felix listed all ingredients in his "BIG BATCH":
The batch that was sent out to everyone has the chemistry set as...
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An interesting article:
http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/esters-in-synthetic-lubricants/
(By the way; the whole site is an interesting one, with a large forum:
http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/)
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Now I've done my first experiment:
When the carnauba (5g) and paraffin (15g) had melted I opened one of my little Lee LLA bottles only to find that it was more of a paste than liquid. (No wonder,...
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The MSDS says:
Isoparaffinic hydrocarbon
solvent CAS 64742-88-7.......75-85 weight %
Paraffin Wax 8002-74-2........10-30
Carnauba Wax 8015-86-9......5-10
I melted 5 grams of Carnauba in a...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I have "upgraded" my old Lyman #45. I replaced the leaky brass piston with the double O-ring type.
At least in my lubesizer, the threads were the same. Cheap upgrade!
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I have read about ATF beeing a good rust preventative. The same stuff used in Ed's Red.
So, after cleaning my gun it automatically gets a thin coating of ATF. Maybe a coat of straight ATF would be...
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