Bens Red >Blue >Green

[Spawn-Inc]

I made a batch of Ben's Red and while it works great, i wanted Blue. so i picked up a random tube of blue grease and started a thread only to find out the grease i picked up wouldn't be very good. while at princess auto i found another tube of blue lithium complex grease and made up a batch.

it was going great and looked blue like i wanted so i poured some into muffin pans and let it set up. i took one of them inside and jammed it into my lyman 4500 and starting sizing some 45's. it didn't look at all like i wanted as the yellow beeswax turned it green :(

maybe next time i will get some bleached beeswax and give it another shot, once i go through 2 batches of Ben's red...

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[alamogunr]

I have read somewhere that the bleaching process changes beeswax making it unsuitable for lube. I don't know if that is true or not.

[Spawn-Inc]

I have read somewhere that the bleaching process changes beeswax making it unsuitable for lube. I don't know if that is true or not.

hmm, i meant refined but not sure if it's the same thing as bleached.

[338RemUltraMag]

Why does the color matter? It will all shoot the same...

[Spawn-Inc]

Why does the color matter? It will all shoot the same...

blue is proven to give +10 FPS and after testing green i get +25 FPS. that's why green means go and red means stop.

[Bigslug]

Why does the color matter? It will all shoot the same...

Doppler shift. When you push your boolits up near the speed of light, it's harder for your enemy to take correct evasive action if the boolits are already on the blue wavelength.

While Ben's Red is an excellent lube, it is widely known that it appears purple at relativistic speeds, and Lt. Sulu will have an easier time dodging it.:mrgreen:

[alamogunr]

Boy! This went south in a hurry.

[runfiverun]

well i'm here now so we can begin the real thread drifting..
throw some blue candle die in next time.
the blue color really does make it so you can't see a boolit coming at light speed, but you can see it going away much easier, unless it's raining.

[338RemUltraMag]

blue is proven to give +10 FPS and after testing green i get +25 FPS. that's why green means go and red means stop.

Ahem... BS

You cant reliably determine in a pistol an extra 10-25 fps, the extreme spread will be that much at least, BTW what is the gain of an extra 25 fps?

[shredder]

Maybe a little tongue in cheek here....

[Bigslug]

the blue color really does make it so you can't see a boolit coming at light speed, but you can see it going away much easier, unless it's raining.

EXACTLY! We call them "Einstein's Tracers";-)

[Spawn-Inc]

Ahem... BS

You cant reliably determine in a pistol an extra 10-25 fps, the extreme spread will be that much at least, BTW what is the gain of an extra 25 fps?

An extra 25 is everything! It means 10% increase in accuracy and a 15% increase it stopping power.

That, PLUS it makes people green with envy.

[runfiverun]

and it goes 3 more feet behind the paper target before dropping straight to the ground.

[fryboy]

one can bleach beeswax by letting it set out in the sunshine , it's best if it's thin cakes ( so to speak ) leaving me feeling that if a natural bleaching process is used the only difference is the color ( as for the chemical bleached stuff ... you're ummm on your own

[Spawn-Inc]

one can bleach beeswax by letting it set out in the sunshine , it's best if it's thin cakes ( so to speak ) leaving me feeling that if a natural bleaching process is used the only difference is the color ( as for the chemical bleached stuff ... you're ummm on your own

Interesting, I have enough beeswax for one more batch. Although they also had an orange coloured lube I might try. What I really need to do is make a hollow stick mold instead of muffin molds.

[fryboy]

alot of us just pour it in the sizer ( much easier than making and using molds ) there are several threads however that have various molds for stix ( i use 1" pvc pipe and a 2 x something base ,6 i think ? one set has wood dowel rods the other steel ) there's also a you tube vid where a feller makes a lube extruder , is kind of neat to watch , of course none of it is as easy as pouring melted lube in the sizer and waiting 5 minutes [shrugz]

[runfiverun]

i pour out on waxed paper on a cookie shoot so it gets about 1/2" thick then cut it into strips.

[leftiye]

Ahem... BS

You cant reliably determine in a pistol an extra 10-25 fps, the extreme spread will be that much at least, BTW what is the gain of an extra 25 fps?

You have to shuto mucho, then use average velocities.

[taco650]

I made a batch of Ben's Red and while it works great, i wanted Blue. so i picked up a random tube of blue grease and started a thread only to find out the grease i picked up wouldn't be very good. while at princess auto i found another tube of blue lithium complex grease and made up a batch.

it was going great and looked blue like i wanted so i poured some into muffin pans and let it set up. i took one of them inside and jammed it into my lyman 4500 and starting sizing some 45's. it didn't look at all like i wanted as the yellow beeswax turned it green :(

maybe next time i will get some bleached beeswax and give it another shot, once i go through 2 batches of Ben's red...

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Green is my favorite color so if you don't like you batch of green lube, box it up and ship to me. PM for my address.