Grumpa what do you add to the stainless pins when cleaning . I have used heat and lanolin to lube cases but when I use LSD to clean i get a Black coating on my pins and brass .
Grumpa what do you add to the stainless pins when cleaning . I have used heat and lanolin to lube cases but when I use LSD to clean i get a Black coating on my pins and brass .
Here's all I use:
Well water
HOT<-----( Not boiling just hot water from the tap)
Lemi-Shine
Dawn Original Dish washing soap
Rinse after 20 minutes with hot water....
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I've cut out dawn in my ss cleaning. Someone said somewhere the two are opposite on the pH scale and sort of counter each other a little bit. Hot water and lemishine works just peachy for me, if not about 10 to 20% faster than before.
Thanks for the recipe, I've been needing something for my 223 cases, got about 1200 I need to do, hope I can get this stuff churning quick and get the job done.
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and you dont have the black coating on everything ? are you using lanolin for case lube
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Cut, trimmed, formed 50 rounds of .223 into .300BO brass this week. Used a slight variation of Grumpu's lube recipe.
I don't have any good vasoline in the house so I made some from a DIY recipe of equal parts beeswax, coconut oil, and olive oil.
To this I added a glop of lanolin, warmed it up, stirred well, and let cool. I used spareingly, mostly greased my fingers up as I was loading each case I made sure it got a slight smear. Even on the lee hand press it took no strength, and 20 minutes in walnut hulls after priming left cases clean, bright shiny, and not slippery.
Good stuff that lanolin.
I've been using the old rcbs case lube that comes in the tube to re-size cases but the stuff is pretty picky about how much to use, and is a pain to clean off after sizing. Is this stuff made from lanolin, and what would be good to mix it with to make it a little more user friendly? I have several tubes of the stuff and would like something that works better if I could find a mixture for it that works.
On the SS pin tumbling, if you are getting a black coating on your brass
there is some carbon steel in the mix.
Either a carbon steel screw holding the "ribs" inside the vessel, or a steel case in the pile (russian steel cased ammo).
Also I find that a couple of tablespoons of laundry detergent works better than dawn.
The dawn tends to make a huge amount of suds, so rinsing the brass and pins is a bigger PITA.
And I have found that laundry detergent works better at cutting heavy grease and dirt.
GONRA sez to doit the easy way - just PURCHASE
STP Oil Treatment or TriFlo Synthetic Grease.
Either makes a GREAT cartridge case sizing / reforming grease!
Grumpa. I like your recipe. I have been using up my RCBS stuff and looking for additional supplies. I found a jar of DAX 100% pure Lanolin hair conditioner. It has lanolin and other goodies. I have used this to reform some cases seems to work ok but I have nothing else to go against except the RCBS. I will get some lanolin and mix it with this DAX stuff. Have you heard of this dax stuff?
I made up some of the 50-50 mix. I really like it. Used it to make 8mm Mauser from 270 Win. Works great. Also used to recharge a lube pad. Does not take much. Thanks Grumpa for sharing.
swamp
There is no problem so great, that it cannot be solved by the proper application of high explosives.
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I put a bit on a Q-tip and run it around the inside.
swamp
There is no problem so great, that it cannot be solved by the proper application of high explosives.
I had the same problem of using a petroleum based lube and it turned the inside of my tumbler black too.
So I got to thinking about a water soluble lube that might work and you wont believe it... Astroglide and it works fantastic as a resize lube and cleanup is as easy as warm water.
Do, or do not.
There is no try.
Yoda
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dverna,
I too would like to know if you can just load up and shoot after the case lube. I certainly don't care to have to re-clean the cases after sizing if I don't HAVE to. But, as I am new to the rifle loading process, and am trying to attain the absolute best accuracy from my rounds as possible, I will re-clean if needed. Thanks.
-Muddawg
I have been using bensred if it lubes my cast Boolits in ain’t gona hurt my cases. I clean with citric acid and dish soap then tumble in corn cob or walnut shell. I’m cheep and broke I wash my media also.
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