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nitro-express
11-02-2021, 12:14 PM
A grab bag impulse buy at a gunshow had 4 sticks (solid) of bullet lube marked only with "Exxcel". It is soft, I don't think it will need heat. It is a honey beige color and it is has a faint beeswax smell.

Not a need to know thing, mostly curious. I find once I have a good combo, just about any lube will work for shooting Cowboy loads.

It will be melt and pour, but I plan on loading up a RCBS Lubeamatic with it as a dedicated sizer for 200 gr. 44-40 bullets.

Thanks

appendum: It may be a Canadian product.

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JonB_in_Glencoe
11-02-2021, 01:15 PM
I wonder if it's the old NRA formula?
1/3 beeswax
1/3 Paraffin wax
1/3 Vaseline

nitro-express
11-03-2021, 09:39 AM
I use beeswax to thicken olive oil that has been infused with goldenrod flower pollen for arthritis, 1 part BW to 2 parts Olive oil, and it comes with more of a yellow color that Exxcel. But based on the sniff test, I suspect that the other ingredients are near odorless.

Green Frog
11-03-2021, 06:15 PM
Is it too soft to consider it might be 50-50 beeswax and ALOX (the current so-called “NRA formula?) All sticks of that I’ve ever seen had a beige to tan color... :confused:

nitro-express
11-03-2021, 08:43 PM
Sounds like that is what it is.

GregLaROCHE
11-04-2021, 08:52 AM
Try it. I bet it will work.

nitro-express
11-05-2021, 09:07 AM
Try it. I bet it will work.

You bet, especially at the $1.25 a stick I paid for it.