Removing commercial bullet lube?

[Twmaster]

I need to clean some boolits I bought from a commercial caster.

I want all of the lube off the boolit. What is a good solvent for this lube? The lube is blue and is just in the lube grooves. Not tumble lubed.

Thanks.

[shadowcaster]

Put them in boiling water. The lube will melt and then float to the top. Remove from the heat and the lube will become solid. Touch them up with a bit of acetone and you should be good to go.

Shad

[geargnasher]

Pan of simmering water and a couple large squirts of Palmolive. Don't use SWMBO's pots, get a cheap one from the dollar store or thrift store.

Gear

[bangerjim]

I have removed the old dirty blue lube from many many hundreds of com slugs I got as scrap. I find just putting them in a glass container and totally covering them with laq thinner or acetone and letting them soak overnight, then swishing/shaking them around removes all the lube.

Then rinse in clean thinner and you have totally clean boolits.

I did this so I could powder coat them. Otherwise, just tumble lube them with LLA 45/45/10 mix without removing the old lube.

bangerjim

[Twmaster]

Awesome! Thank you all for the help! :smile: