I was thinking of powdercoating some of the bullets I have that are lubed with wax to do a shoting test. I was thinking about solvents and did a bit of research to find that tolene and xylene are very close to carnuba wax which would make them the ideal choice to disolve the lube. Mineral spirits is close in chemical make up but not as good, however, I have paint thinner, which is mineral spirits. Laquer thinner is a hotter solvent, but, not like toulene or xylene or mineral spirits. So I thought I'd try that, too. I put a sampling of bullets in a can and covered the bullets with paint thinner. In another can I put more bullets and covered with laquer thinner. All the bulles are lubed the same. I left both for 48 hours. The first thing that happened was the color was leached out of the wax in both thinners. The Laquer thinner became brittle while the Paint thinner became soft. At 24 hours the paint thinner was etching through and some of the bullets were loosing their lube in small sections. Noting new had occured in the Laquer thinner. At 48 hours the lube in the paint thinner had disolved completely while the laquer thinner lube had not changed. The bullets felt clean and once the solvent dried neither was stickey. There is no sign of residue in the bottom of the cans or on the bulets. I plan to wash them with soap and hot water, let dry, then PC.
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I left the Lacquer thinner to disolve for another 24 hours. At that point the lube is a very very soft paste. Easily wiped or washed off, but, not completely disolved. Here is what they look like after 72 hours.
It appears, given enough time either method will work to disolve the lube while super cleaning the bullet.