Lube ingredient help!

[seagiant]

Hi,
I use a 50/50 mix of moly grease and grade 1 beeswax with a little paraffin tossed in to firm it up a bit for the heat in the florida summer. This works great but I would like to add something to give it some "plasticity" it is now sort of flakey because of the Parrifin I guess? Anyone have any ideas on this?? Thanks!

[cbrick]

You could try reading these descriptions of lube ingredients, might find something interesting.

Lube ingredients (http://www.lasc.us/LubeIngredients.htm)

Rick

[seagiant]

Thanks Rick,
I was actually looking for that and could not remember where I had seen it.:!:

[cajun shooter]

You may want to add some lanolin as the beeswax and parrifin are going to give you a very hard flakey lube.

[randyrat]

**************OK I'm finished making a duplicate of the "mirror Lube" I made it out out of 2 oz high temp lithium moly grease, 6 oz beeswax a 1/8 teaspoon of carnauba wax & 1/2 teaspoon of Lanolin...........********

Above is a sample of a lube I made..You must have used too much paraffin wax..
I would re-melt it and add a 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of Lanolin per pound of lube and possibly more grease. Hopefully that will fix it.
Pure Anhydrous (no water) Lanolin is the best

Carnauba wax would have worked better instead of paraffin

[Reload3006]

I solved the flaky problem with more grease.

[seagiant]

Hi,
I think Randy is right. If I use carnaba instead of the parafin I should get the "plastic" type quality I'm looking for and still stiffen the mix! Thanks!

[buck1]

Yes a good move ,but add small amts it takes less carnuba to thicken! also some vasoline will plastic it up.

[randyrat]

1-2 teaspoons per pound of carnauba wax and it will be a winner!