SniderBoomer
01-08-2014, 04:15 PM
I am currently awaiting ingredients for making batches of Ben's Red.
Meantime, I have old stock of my first home-made lube, made to the old NRA lube formula,
1 part Beeswax
1 part Paraffin
1 part Vaseline
I have a slight problem with it.
When I pan-lube with it, whether I cut the boolits out with a close-fit cookie-cutter or even push-out the boolits, the lube often doesn't seem to stick too well into the grooves on my boolits, albeit Lee boolits which I know don't often have the deepest lube-grooves. It's as if the wax is shrinking back too much as it cools (even when poured to heated boolits), withdrawing clean out of the shallow grooves, if you know what I'm meaning. When I do get it to stick it has been fine for my needs, so I'd like to use up what I have for my plinking loads, if I can make it more 'sticky' and a better fill to my boolits grooves.
I was going to add Vaseline, but don't want to chase my tail here adding that if there's a better way.
How would you 'sticky' it up some and address the shrinkage? Add Red'N'Tacky or something? I suddenly acquired a load of that...
Meantime, I have old stock of my first home-made lube, made to the old NRA lube formula,
1 part Beeswax
1 part Paraffin
1 part Vaseline
I have a slight problem with it.
When I pan-lube with it, whether I cut the boolits out with a close-fit cookie-cutter or even push-out the boolits, the lube often doesn't seem to stick too well into the grooves on my boolits, albeit Lee boolits which I know don't often have the deepest lube-grooves. It's as if the wax is shrinking back too much as it cools (even when poured to heated boolits), withdrawing clean out of the shallow grooves, if you know what I'm meaning. When I do get it to stick it has been fine for my needs, so I'd like to use up what I have for my plinking loads, if I can make it more 'sticky' and a better fill to my boolits grooves.
I was going to add Vaseline, but don't want to chase my tail here adding that if there's a better way.
How would you 'sticky' it up some and address the shrinkage? Add Red'N'Tacky or something? I suddenly acquired a load of that...