Cosmoline?

[yobohadi]

As I was cleaning the tons of cosmoline off my new Yugo 59/66 A1 SKS last night It occurred to me that it smells a lot like Lee Liquid Alox. Do they use Cosmoline as a component of Alox? Has anyone tried to use it in a bullet lube with any success?

[leftiye]

Alox is a rust preventive in real life. Probly quite similar.

[Hip's Ax]

From the lube recipie library:
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Lube Formula - Colorado Shooters

1/3 Candle Wax (140 Degree F Melting Point)
1/3 Cosmoline
1/3 Bowl Wax
4 oz. Olive Oil added per pound of lube

Ratio's are approximate and are non-critical. A little more or a little less of any
component seems to make no difference in performance. Candle wax is available at any
hobby store, which sells candle-making supplies. Cosmoline is available in small
quantities from suppliers such as Midway, USA, Inc. 1-800-243-3220 or
http://www.midwayusa.com . Bowl wax is available in any Home Depot or similar store.

[Sonnypie]

I thought bowl wax (for toilets) was a bee's wax or bee's wax compound? :-?

BTW, never use used bowl wax. No, No, No...
That brown is NOT lubricant. :-o

[mold maker]

T bowel wax was Bee's wax at one time. Now its anything they can make it from. Others have said it was a petroleum byproduct.

[Hip's Ax]

I believe the verdict was toilet bowl gaskets are now made from "Slack Wax".

[Hip's Ax]

Toilet rings are made from Petroletum Wax

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=102523&highlight=toilet

Toilet rings are made of Slack Wax

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=67230&highlight=toilet

Heres the results to my search of the word "toilet" in the Boolit Lube forum. Tons to read.

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/search.php?searchid=3541589

[yobohadi]

From the lube recipie library:
************************************************** ***************
Lube Formula - Colorado Shooters

1/3 Candle Wax (140 Degree F Melting Point)
1/3 Cosmoline
1/3 Bowl Wax
4 oz. Olive Oil added per pound of lube

Ratio's are approximate and are non-critical. A little more or a little less of any
component seems to make no difference in performance. Candle wax is available at any
hobby store, which sells candle-making supplies. Cosmoline is available in small
quantities from suppliers such as Midway, USA, Inc. 1-800-243-3220 or
http://www.midwayusa.com . Bowl wax is available in any Home Depot or similar store.

Thanks, I did a search on the site for cosmoline and did not see that thread in the results.

Rather than purchase cosmoline from a supplier, I am going to plan on just getting it free from buying a lot of old well preserved milsurp firearms. :-)

[mroliver77]

Definition of Cosmoline

1. n. A substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffines; a kind of petroleum jelly.

[Mk42gunner]

The one time I used for real Cosmoline in the Navy, it came out of the can like water and set up into the gooey mess we all know and love/hate in a very short time. Wish I would have nabbed the rest of the gallon.

Robert

[Boolseye]

I could have lubed quite a few boolits from what was on my Mosin when i bought it!

[badbob454]

As I was cleaning the tons of cosmoline off my new Yugo 59/66 A1 SKS last night It occurred to me that it smells a lot like Lee Liquid Alox. Do they use Cosmoline as a component of Alox? Has anyone tried to use it in a bullet lube with any success?
i just cleaned mine up last week wow the stuff was in the gastube, barrel between the barrel and stock , complete disassembly cleaned up with mineral spirits ,, verithaned with clear satin finish the stock now a unissued ready to fire rifle biuilt in 1959 too cool

[7of7]

http://www.cosmolinedirect.com/

[Boolseye]

re. cosmoline: whoa! They don't exactly give that stuff away!!