I gave your Carnauba blue a good workout today in a 1911 with lyman 452374's. This will be my lube until you make something better. great lube.
I gave your Carnauba blue a good workout today in a 1911 with lyman 452374's. This will be my lube until you make something better. great lube.
NRA Benefactor Member NRA Golden Eagle
My Blue arrived today.
I ordered some Red and some BAC too. I always liked how the BAC worked but it was a little on the tacky side so the bullets could get messy in the warm months.
I think I'm going to really like the BLUE if it flows like BAC but isn't as tacky. Should make for a nice clean lube for storing up a bunch.
The most important part is that it smells just as good as RED. The BAC however has the most aroma. I think I need to keep some in my car like an air freshener.
Just a question about the pan-lubing process:
How did you seat the Gas-Checks, Lar? Did you run them through a Lee sizer first? And if you did, did you lubricate them with WD-40 or something?
Also, regarding pan lubing with carnauba blue: Does it put off bad smelling fumes?
I can help with GCs.
When I heat treat boolits, I size them and install GCs before the heat treat process, so I want little or no lube on them when I bake them at 400º for an hour.
So, whatever type sizing die I use (Lee or Lyman), I just seat a GC and push them through the sizer with no lube. If they are tough to push through, I will push a previously lubed and sized boolit through the die, to leave a "residue" of lube, makes pushing the unlubed boolits much easier (that may have to be repeated every 5 to 10 unlubed boolits).
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I recently got my first mould for .45 Auto and will begin casting soon. I was planning to get your NRA or BAC lube until I read this. I will be shooting my cast bullets for fun target and plinking. Will also be casting for .45 Colt.
Would this lube be good in my applications??? I will not be loading enough to try several types, just need one that works well.
Thanks
Short,Fat,and Slow,,,Yup I love the .45
Red and Blue work pretty good. Just started using them.
Lar45
Does it suffer by repeated heating in a microwave to melt it for pan lubing or pouring it into a 450?
Pan lubing works best if you heat both lube and cast bullets together in 200-240 degree oven. A small silicone pan works best when releasing lube cake. Push out bullets then insert new bullets in blank holes. Then reheat next batch in oven. I do not heat bullets and lube over 240 degrees for fear of burning lube.
Way too many lube choices.$$$$
I bought some of the blue, and it won't flow thru my sizer at 65-70 degrees.
Had to make a heater of sorts to be able to lube bullets. I'll go back to my
homemade lube I've been using for years.
Denny
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |