Just wondering how many parts/parts to add, like 1/4 etc. All replies appreciated.
Just wondering how many parts/parts to add, like 1/4 etc. All replies appreciated.
I mix it 10:1 with great results.
Keep your powder dry and watch your six !!
Of course the other way is not to add any alcohol at all. Put a VERY small amount (finger smear) of lanolin in the palm of your hand, rub the hands together to distribute the lanolin (and soften the hands), then roll cases between your hands, about half a dozen at a time. Add lanolin as required. You'll pretty soon get the hang of it. Degree of lube on hands required will depend on resistance of cases to sizing. Adjust as necessary. For instance I use more for .308 than for .30-30. If you can see lanolin on the skin you are using far too much.
It'll be handy if I never need it.
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10:1 works for me. Last a long time cause it disperses very well. Good spray plastic bottle into a plastic bag coats everything very well.
Just remember to let the alcohol flash off or you will stick a case in a heart beat. Don’t ask how I know.
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Thanks for all the help.
One ounce of liquid lanolin per 12 ounces of Isoheat is what I've used with great results.
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Yeap, 10/1 is what I use.
its anywhere from 8:1 to 10:1.
because......processing 1000 round batches of LC brass on a DILLON XL650 with a casefeeder.
DILLON XL650
1.decapper.
2. SWAGE-IT primer pocket swager
4. size die / RT1200 electric trimmer.
5. redding neck sizer.
spray lube LC 5.56 brass, pour into XL650 casefeeder, each pull produces a de-capped, resized, trimmed, crimped primer pocket crimp removed.
notice that My hands never touch the case, never tire nor get dirty.
next polish brass in 20/40grit corn cob, to remove the lanolin.
change toolhead to
1. Lyman M-die
2. powder funnel
3. powder check system
4. bullet seater
5, crimp die if needed.
now load them up, just like pistol....
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Goodness Derek, that reloading podcast and your equipment list is impressive but do you often load in thousand round batches?
Whatever, but I wasn't posting to an obvious expert reloader with years of experience and thousands of dollars worth of everything like you; I was posting to the OP. You know, the nice fellow who started this thread by simply asking how to rightly mix his case lube?
I mix 10:1 and put it in an old "off" bug spray pump bottle. I put 25 44-40 cases at a time into a plastic container. I use two to three pumps per 50 cases. No idea how much material comes out with one small pump but......I shake the container slightly leaning it at an angle and many of the case stand up. I can typically remove the cases on end about 6 at a time.
No mess on my hands is kind of what I am getting at and minimal use of the oil in the pump.
Lanolin is very slick and it's clean. I know it's been used for case resizing, reforming and jacketed bullet swaging since at least the 1950s, probably earlier.
Dillon sells lanolin in a spray can but, IIRC, they didn't invent it. I think Hornady was the first to mass market it as a spray lube in their "1 Shot" form ... I think. ???
No need to add any lanolin if you buy a can of Bag Balm at the drug store for 6 bucks
Regards
John
I use 10:1 using 90% alcohol, and recently formed almost 100 .243 Win out of .308 Win with zero issues. Used the baggie lube method.
if it doesn't fit, don't force it. Get a BIGGER HAMMER!
Doesn't the slight amount of anhydrous lanolin that will suspend in alcohol determine the mix?
What I mean is that only so much lanolin will go into the mix so if you throw some alcohol in a can on top of some lanolin won't it only pick up as much as it actually can? And that there is your mix?
I don't know this for sure, therefore I'm asking.
I use a dab of lanolin covered in alcohol in the bottom of a pimento jar.
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