Lubed boolits in oven?

[45-70 Chevroner]

I don't know where this is coming from, but why would you put Lubed boolits in the oven at any degrees. It defeats the purpose of lubing them. If you are having a problem with severe leading, and your are heating them in the oven after lubing. I will guarantee you that is the problem. No one can convince my that heating lubed boolits in an oven is a good idea.
The heading should have read, lubed

[mehavey]

As per other SubForum/this topic....


I have never heard of baking boolits after lubing them. I think that is a serious mistake.
225 degrees is hot enough to melt the lube off. Don't argue w/ about 8 years of doing this with greasy-fingered Lee Liquid ALOX w/o any evidence of "melt-off"
If anything, it 'uniforms' the residual coatings perfectly.
:bigsmyl2:


As to effectiveness:
See https://thefiringline.com/forums/showpost.php?p=6644641&postcount=5 for rifle use w/ Lyman #2 and Hvy 45-70
See https://thefiringline.com/forums/showpost.php?p=6645327&postcount=8 for rifle use w/ Lyman #2 and Med-Hvy 30-40 Krag
See http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?368459-223-cast-bullets-w-ar15&p=4472544&viewfull=1#post4472544 use w/ Lyman #2 and ModeratelyFast AR-15/223

[Geezer in NH]

If I wanted to Bake bullets I would powder coat which I do not do. 4 Lyman 45's and 2 Lyman 450's says I do not need to.

Every now and then I do use some Bens liquid lube on pistol bullet and buckshot which then air dry on wax paper.

Never ever heard of baking lubed bullets till now so bet it ain't very popular and I been doing this 50 years plus

[mehavey]

You been doing it with ALOX ?
All it does speed up solvent drying.

[Minerat]

Fixed your title.

[firewhenready7]

Never heard of baking lubed boolits although I do powder coat mine.

[mdi]

I have cooked lubed bullets in an oven several times. For various reasons I have needed to remove traditional wax lube and sitting some lubed bullets on a paper towel in a warm oven (200 degrees) gets 98% of the old lube off.

For annealing/tempering my cast bullets, I never bothered. I have found it easier to alloy for hardness than heat treat or water drop...

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

what in the wide wide world of sports is a goin' on here?

[mehavey]

We're talkin' how to accelerate driving off Lee Liquid
ALOX solvent to speed drying to completely non-sticky.

(Sometimes, ALOX is still the best for particular applications/conditions)

[guy_with_boolits]

ALOX is carried in a solvent, thats why the instructions say to let it dry overnight

solvent evaporation rate is proportional to heat:

32F: very slow, maybe never depending on the solvent vapor pressure
70F: overnight
100F: faster
200F: much faster (30 mins?)
some higher temperature: decomposition of alox..although not sure what this temperature is since the LEE catalog shows someone blowtorching the ALOX and it apparently remaining intact