Hubertus
09-08-2009, 02:39 PM
A while ago I enquired Felix about the possibility to alter the recipe. He said go for it.
Well here it comes:
I wanted to use this for a 45-70 with smokeless– the speed/pressure should be moderate.
At first I wanted to do a little test batch and see how this goes.
Here is what I used, based on the FWFL formula (sorry I am a metric guy):
65 gram Beeswax
10 ml Paraffin HT (pure liquid paraffin)
5 ml Jojoba oil
5 ml Cetyl alcohol
1 teaspoon Lanolin
1 gram Carnauba (flakes)
As you probably can see I replaced the castor oil with jojoba oil. That eliminates the need to cook the recommended time. It is rather a melting and merging. As well I replaced the Ivory soap with Cetyl alcohol. This is a solid coagulator sold as coarse powder; you can get this at the drugstore or via the internet at the hobby soap and cream making supplier websites.
The process of making it went very smooth. But the pan lubing didn’t (I tried only 10 boolits). The groves weren’t filled or it broke out when pushing the boolits out of the cake. Well I thought it might be too soft and did another batch, of course I used the remainder of the previous one as a starter. I added ingredients until I reached this final composition:
90 gram Beeswax
15 ml Paraffin HT (pure liquid paraffin)
10 ml Jojoba oil
6 ml Cetyl alcohol
1 teaspoon Lanolin
2 gram Carnauba
Still pan lubing was not very successful but that might be due to cold boolits or my technique to remove the boolits. I will try further, but in the end I wanted to find out whether it is good for the application or not, so I applied it by hand and scraped off the excess with a plastic spoon handle.
Well, after every shot I looked through the bore and after every third one sent a dry patch through it with an undersized holder just to push out loose particles. AND
Nothing, no trace of lead visible. The speed was up to about 1700fps with a 340 grain boolit, no GC.
After the lubed I shot some paper patched boolits and stayed with the 3 shot routine of pushing the particles out. Nothing to be found.
Showing the bore to one fellow shooter at the end of the session, I got “it looks like it has not been fired”.
Cleaning took two sprays of Cito cleaning oil and 10 patches. The 10th came out white.
If you are interested in the range report look here:
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=62183
Hubertus
Well here it comes:
I wanted to use this for a 45-70 with smokeless– the speed/pressure should be moderate.
At first I wanted to do a little test batch and see how this goes.
Here is what I used, based on the FWFL formula (sorry I am a metric guy):
65 gram Beeswax
10 ml Paraffin HT (pure liquid paraffin)
5 ml Jojoba oil
5 ml Cetyl alcohol
1 teaspoon Lanolin
1 gram Carnauba (flakes)
As you probably can see I replaced the castor oil with jojoba oil. That eliminates the need to cook the recommended time. It is rather a melting and merging. As well I replaced the Ivory soap with Cetyl alcohol. This is a solid coagulator sold as coarse powder; you can get this at the drugstore or via the internet at the hobby soap and cream making supplier websites.
The process of making it went very smooth. But the pan lubing didn’t (I tried only 10 boolits). The groves weren’t filled or it broke out when pushing the boolits out of the cake. Well I thought it might be too soft and did another batch, of course I used the remainder of the previous one as a starter. I added ingredients until I reached this final composition:
90 gram Beeswax
15 ml Paraffin HT (pure liquid paraffin)
10 ml Jojoba oil
6 ml Cetyl alcohol
1 teaspoon Lanolin
2 gram Carnauba
Still pan lubing was not very successful but that might be due to cold boolits or my technique to remove the boolits. I will try further, but in the end I wanted to find out whether it is good for the application or not, so I applied it by hand and scraped off the excess with a plastic spoon handle.
Well, after every shot I looked through the bore and after every third one sent a dry patch through it with an undersized holder just to push out loose particles. AND
Nothing, no trace of lead visible. The speed was up to about 1700fps with a 340 grain boolit, no GC.
After the lubed I shot some paper patched boolits and stayed with the 3 shot routine of pushing the particles out. Nothing to be found.
Showing the bore to one fellow shooter at the end of the session, I got “it looks like it has not been fired”.
Cleaning took two sprays of Cito cleaning oil and 10 patches. The 10th came out white.
If you are interested in the range report look here:
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=62183
Hubertus