Gibbs44
06-17-2013, 10:27 PM
Not that Ben's Red was concocted by a noob, but this noob just made some. Pretty much started out with a shopping list and reading the sticky Made more Ben's Red today, by Ben in the Classics & Stickies section. I liked how Ben and Dean Winchester went about it. Follow the directions is what I kept hearing, so I did, well for the most part. There was tons of helpful information in the sticky on this. Follow it and don't get in a hurry and it should come out OK. One note, I used the mL volumes on my measuring cups. 1000 mL total, 500 mL bees wax, 300 mL Red n' Tacky, 100 mL Johnson's Paste Wax and 50 mL each of STP oil Treatment and Dexron.
Pretty much used a combination of how the aforementioned members mixed their lubes. I used a sauce pan to heat the Red n' Tacky on my hot plate, on low to begin with, got it out of the tupe with a paint stirrer, it reaches to the bottom no problem. I had the bees wax in the toaster oven at the 200 degree mark in a small loaf pan donated by my wife, because it is a small toaster oven and I could not fit my new Pyrex measuring cups inside. I placed the JPW in a measuring cup on top of the toaster oven to liquefy and evaporate the chemicals that aren't wanted. When enough of the bees wax was melted (mine was dark brown when melted, no smoke though) I added the Dex and the STP to the JPW and mixed it up. When that was good I mixed it in with the RnT with a whisk. Once that was good, I measured the bees wax and the poured in with the other ingredients also using the whisk, stopping periodically to use a rubber spatula to get the edges of the pan scraped down.
This is when I turned the heat up to medium to help keep it from congealing on the edges of my pan. I could see no more change in the mixture and then poured about half it though a section of t-shirt pinned to a strainer as the strainer wouldn't hold more and I wasn't sure my pan would hold more. This is when the medium heat could have been a bad idea. As I was preoccupied with pushing the lube through the shirt material, the pot was getting pretty hot. It didn't burn or boil, but it was getting close with the reduction of the liquid. My first installment into the pan had no bubbles, the second half, I believe was too hot and introduced bubbles to the mix. Next time I'll just take it off of the heat when I do the first pour.
As of now I'm waiting for the lube to cool, as it is late I'll put it in the freezer tomorrow to help in getting it out. The pictures below are of the lube as it is was as of 9 something pm, and the rest of my lube set up. No production pictures this time. Now I just need to pour some bullets, lube em up and let em fly. Hopefully I did it right and I'll be able to post results like other members that have used Ben's Red.
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Pretty much used a combination of how the aforementioned members mixed their lubes. I used a sauce pan to heat the Red n' Tacky on my hot plate, on low to begin with, got it out of the tupe with a paint stirrer, it reaches to the bottom no problem. I had the bees wax in the toaster oven at the 200 degree mark in a small loaf pan donated by my wife, because it is a small toaster oven and I could not fit my new Pyrex measuring cups inside. I placed the JPW in a measuring cup on top of the toaster oven to liquefy and evaporate the chemicals that aren't wanted. When enough of the bees wax was melted (mine was dark brown when melted, no smoke though) I added the Dex and the STP to the JPW and mixed it up. When that was good I mixed it in with the RnT with a whisk. Once that was good, I measured the bees wax and the poured in with the other ingredients also using the whisk, stopping periodically to use a rubber spatula to get the edges of the pan scraped down.
This is when I turned the heat up to medium to help keep it from congealing on the edges of my pan. I could see no more change in the mixture and then poured about half it though a section of t-shirt pinned to a strainer as the strainer wouldn't hold more and I wasn't sure my pan would hold more. This is when the medium heat could have been a bad idea. As I was preoccupied with pushing the lube through the shirt material, the pot was getting pretty hot. It didn't burn or boil, but it was getting close with the reduction of the liquid. My first installment into the pan had no bubbles, the second half, I believe was too hot and introduced bubbles to the mix. Next time I'll just take it off of the heat when I do the first pour.
As of now I'm waiting for the lube to cool, as it is late I'll put it in the freezer tomorrow to help in getting it out. The pictures below are of the lube as it is was as of 9 something pm, and the rest of my lube set up. No production pictures this time. Now I just need to pour some bullets, lube em up and let em fly. Hopefully I did it right and I'll be able to post results like other members that have used Ben's Red.
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