Greeaaaat. Now I'm on Castboolits' Ten Most Wanted list. What does your wife drive, Brad, so I can know when to head for the hills?
Y'all know this soap thing is really Starmetal Joe's fault, right? RIGHT???
Gear
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Greeaaaat. Now I'm on Castboolits' Ten Most Wanted list. What does your wife drive, Brad, so I can know when to head for the hills?
Y'all know this soap thing is really Starmetal Joe's fault, right? RIGHT???
Gear
That was what she was inferring. Gear, if you post photos in lingerie I am dead.
Joe is responsible for alot of things both good and not so good.......... but this one is not his fault entirely. Certain things that proably should not have been done, got done anyway....Joe merely took the resulting info and ran with it like an olympic sprinter on crack.
The facts are that the Jeep is stuck in a rut and is having issue steering out of it, that is not even close to Joe's fault. If Joe was here to defend himself I would let him, but he is not so I am making the attempt to do so for him. Joe deserves at least that much.
Does casting in only my skivvies, welder's apron, riding boots, and a pink fez count? :bigsmyl2:
Don't laugh too much, I used to do that in college, too damn hot in my travel trailer to wear much when casting over the stove. Actually, it wasn't a real Fez, but the sleeve from a pink tee-shirt that someone left behind, long story. Anyhow it smelled good and kept the sweat out of my eyes.
Gear
That mental image will never go away.
Mike, I don't find the smell from the soap lubes bad at all. The house does pick up a soap smell but that is clean, isn't it?
I find Alox to be a far worse odor than any of these lubes, that stuff is nasty.
Gear, that is a mental image I didn't need. Thanks
It's not the smell it's the taste and that nagging gollum like tightness in my throat. I think aloz smells edible, but I have not tried it ........well not more than once anyway. :mrgreen:
it does clear the sinuses out though.
i dunno if the tight throat is a good trade-off or not, but at least the sinus headaches clear up for the same amount of time.
Gear, does this look about right?
It forms into a mass, sort of like making dough, then begins melting. It finally does all melt pretty suddenly. Before the sopa melts it is more orange in color, this is a light brown and somewhat translucent.
It looks about like a big blob of caramel. Bet it doesn't taste the same however.
This is version 2 of the soap/K2. Way less oil.
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Oh yeah! That actually looks a little better than the batch I made, mine had a touch less oil than your first batch so it was slightly more crumbly. But that's the stuff. It isn't the most user-friendly, but it sure did seem to want to shoot.
Gear
Based on your 4/7 ratio this is a bit closer. Batch one was 1/1 or 1.00 ratio. 4/7 would be .57 oil per one soap. This batch is .63 oil to 1 soap.
I think this is going to go on just fine. The 1/4 ounce of vaseline seems to make it just enou softer and smoother so it goes on nicer. That works out to about 4 to 5 percent Vaseline, not much at all.
Is that the current white Vaseline? ... felix
It was a beautiful wannabe spring morning. The mercury read 17°F as I sat at the shooting bench.....
But let's start late yesterday afternoon.... I got this wonderful (and very accurate) 2 kilogram electronic scale for my birthday. I have it set on 'grains' as I like big numbers! I weighed a slightly dribbled over tablespoon of Motul 800 2T 2 stroke ester oil. It was 230 grains..... Very close to 1/2 ounce. I hate using measuring spoons!
A half small bar of fresh Ivory is 1 1/2 ounces..... S o o o, I concluded that 3 tablespoons of ester and 1/2 small bar of Ivory is a 50/50 mix by weight. I weighed out 230 grains of Ivory and went to the fire!!!
The finally cooled sodium grease was dry, spreadable, and 'flubbery'! Brad had the texture right! It hand lubed pretty well though, and I loaded a few .250-3000 loads up and went outside. It was getting late. I blasted five into the bank. Looking down the muzzle first (as I always do with lube tests) it looked like I had shot jacketed loads! I pulled out the bolt and looked from the breech.... Errrrr! I had about 6" of lead after the throat!
This morning early I weighed out (again 50/50 by weight) Mobil 1 0w-40 and fresh Ivory. It didn't 'take' to the Ivory to well and I was over 500° for a bit.... It was finally a golden somewhat viscous liquid. I continued stirring off the heat and it was thickening at 300° or so.. and turning a raspberry color! No, it wasn't from the red ester oil I made previously either! Figure this out chemists! Now the mixture is somewhat flubbery, somewhat dry, and somewhat sticky. It has to be better than my Motul mix! It sure feels good..... but we know how that is don't we? Actually I think we need something added to traverse the first 6" better ?? I'm thinking what? (Syn wax a little voice says)
The lead came out easy... A couple of passes with Hoppe's #9 and a bronze brush had the .250-3000 clean. I fouled it with AG/Beeswax. I shot AG/Hi-Soap this morning and figured for the worse at 17° for all.... gun, ammo, and me.
Well the cold start and fouler from AG/Beeswax was sure high! The second shot was lower and to the left. The third shot was left way more! I almost quit.... But I shot the last four in alternation with my Savage Model 23 .25-20 which was on a 'cold test' with EsterBee350.
The .250-3000 group is attached. The last five did better than I thought! I figured it would fail miserably at 17° but it didn't. This gun, load will shoot 3/4" at 70 yards with Polybutene Felix. (This -Not tested below freezing however) The purple asterisk is the aiming point (middle square) and where the same load different lube was hitting before.... Hummm?? At 70 yards, some green-gray mostly melted AG/Hi-Soap spots are on the previously clean target marked with small red asterisks.These are smaller than 'boogers' and usually aren't an accuracy issue... The major change of impact confuses me.
The .25-20 and EsterBee350 passed in flying colors. I knew it would... 17° isn't a cold test!
P.S. .....Tell me why the Mobil 1/ Ivory turned a raspberry color when cooling.... That's the real riddle here!
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I dunno bout the color change unless it's a reaction with oxygen.
brads stuff looks like the ivory/mineral oil gel I made.
Yes Felix, new white vaseline
Um, excuse me????
I just had a positively alarming thought while pondering the timing of my *next* lube once the TAC #1 in the Star runs out:
If the Assembly Goo/SL-6X.XX versions ultimately pan out, just HOW are we supposed to get them OUT of a lubri-sizer?
Sounds like ordinary hair dryer heats won't do it.
Would paint-peeler heat gun applications do it? If so, I'm hesitant to subject a vintage piece and its quite historical foil label to that level of abuse.
Or would the stuff be SO darned heat-resistant that removal from the L-sizer would require power washing with solvent(s)...
And NO!!!! I'm NOT GOING TO GO TO PAN LUBING!. It's just not my "thing", and I'm sticking to that.
Just wondering...
the 61.1 just squirts out the brass screw on the side no problem.
Like Run said, they flow quite well with pressure.
I bet a good boil would do it too.
Why remove a great lube from a sizer other than via bullets?
Brad, you didn't have any leading with the TnT lube in the .375, did you? That's been my principle worry with abandoning wax, this TnT stuff doesn't have much 'backbone' to help with engraving stress so the rifling might be shearing lead away rather than swaging as the boolit engraves, and the shavings naturally get smeared on to the bore. The K2 doesn't have as high a film strength as a lot of the stuff I've tested, but it doesn't have the cold drag either.
I'm using a buffered load to test so it might have masked any propensity to lead. After the next tests I'll put a patch through my Marlin and make sure but I didn't see any, it's normally a bad throat leader if things aren't fitted tightly no matter the lube or load.
I have no explanation for the M1 turning red, that's truly weird.
Gear
You don't put it IN your sizer until you're sure! I just cleaned out a Lyman 45 Sunday by leaving it in the blazing sun in a foil pan. None of the Longhorn soap lube melted out, but it got very soft and I dug most of the stuff in the bottom section out with a stick, then pushed wads of paper towels through it with bent wires, and finally rinsed the rest out with naptha and compressed air. Not easy or fun.
For testing, just smear it in the grooves with your fingers and run it through a sizer to wipe off excess.
Gear