How do you remove cast bullet lube??

[jerryp]

Put them on a rag and use heat gun to melt lube. Wipe off and dump in gas ( may hear them sizzle when they hit the gas)and stir around with paint brush. Remove and rinse in clean gas again . Dry and ready to powder coat..quick and easy..

[centershot]

Acetone. Put the boolits in a glass jar, cover with acetone and cap tightly. The lube will dissolve.

[Hanzy4200]

Just not worth it man. Most lube makes good flux. In my mind, if they were good enough to shoot BEFORE you started PC'ing, they're good enough now. Believe me, I know the dilemma. I went a little nuts when I started casting and I'm sitting on well over 2,000 158 gr Lee TL pills. I hate working and loading TL bullets now. So gunky and smokey. At this rate, I might shoot them all by 2040.

[centershot]

Just not worth it man. Most lube makes good flux. In my mind, if they were good enough to shoot BEFORE you started PC'ing, they're good enough now. Believe me, I know the dilemma. I went a little nuts when I started casting and I'm sitting on well over 2,000 158 gr Lee TL pills. I hate working and loading TL bullets now. So gunky and smokey. At this rate, I might shoot them all by 2040.

You'll always have some smoke with TL, but if you bullets are "gunky", that is, sticky, your formula for the TL is wrong or you're using too much of it.

[richhodg66]

You'll always have some smoke with TL, but if you bullets are "gunky", that is, sticky, your formula for the TL is wrong or you're using too much of it.

But then they won't have those faaaabulous pretty colors to show off. Never mind that TL easier and works better.

[Rapier]

I found a commercial source years ago for hard cast RCBS 200 FP with a plain base (PB), ordered 1 K put them back. Then the RCBS mould for the PB was discontinued, so I used an old metal 3 pound coffee can with a sealing lid and poured acetone in on top of about 300 and rolled the can around. Poured it off and refilled, rolled again and the bullets came out ready to PC.
I shoot them in my 358 MGP AR at near 2,600 fps. Since then I found a Saeco iron mould for their copy of the RCBS 200g FN PB bullet, so away we go.

[Dunross]

My shooting partner and I have what's left of a huge order of cast bullets we bought back during the first Clinton administration. Some of them now have the lube falling out, at least partially, so for those bullets I want to give this a try. No idea what they are lubed with. Whatever the hard blue lube from back then was.

[Doughty]

Anybody have any success removing BLL?

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Anybody have any success removing BLL?

Acetone.

[Doughty]

OK will give it a try. Thanks.