Experiments are only failures if they fail to prove the hypothesis. If your experiment proved that you made expensive flux, the lube was a failure, but the experiment itself was a success.
Ben, I've been using that stuff for years. That and it's forest-green brother, Assemblee Goo, made by another company. Difference is, I use it to hold thrust washers and checkballs in place when building automatic transmissions, or to hold loose bearing rollers for manual transmission gears and countershafts in place. Once used it to hold the 4,208 (no exaggeration, the truth) rod and main roller bearings of a Mercury Black Max engine together while I assembled the lower block cradle, which comprises all four main bearing caps. Kinda like trying to hold 50 lbs of loosel of marbles all at once with just your two bare hands.
The stuff has some interesting, and some frustrating qualities. In the Texas Summer, it turns into the kind of stuff that falls from the sky after a flock of ducks pass overhead, and it don't hold squat in place, it just melts and runs. In the winter, it has to be nuked in the microwave to get it out of the tub without a chisel. This quality alone is why I never considered it for boolit lube, if anything, I'm looking for something with as little viscocity change as possible over a wide range of shooting temperatures, say from 25 to 105 ambient as a good range for me.
Something else to check out, there is a MiG welder's nozzle dip that is pure paraffin wax, tinted a nice sky blue, and is the consistency of really thick vaseline, but not very sticky and is smooth as silk. Kinda looks like LBT Soft.....
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