Honestly? I think it's going to fling boolits everywhere because it's slicker than goose snot, jojoba does that, good stuff but it can get screwy. Maybe the other ingredients will balance it out. Go shoot some of it and prove me wrong!
Speaking of slicker than goose snot, I followed through with the idea of boiling off the solvents in the Redline two-stroke. All the two-stroke oils are cut with stuff like mineral spirits ( think) to help them mix with gas if used as a pre-mix. If I remember right injector oil is usually thicker like the specialty stuff used in boats, I remember Mercury outboard injector oil is thick like heavy engine oil.
Anyway, after 12 minutes at 300F and constant stirring, it stopped smoking so I measured the reduction, it's right at 25% reduced, noticeably thicker, and no longer smells like paint thinner. The evaporation test of the base oil was only a few percent at 425F for 12 hours, so I figured 300 was the safe and fast way to do it, not too much smoke, but enough to do the job.
Second mission was to make lube. I added an ounce of beeswax and a half-ounce of carnauba flakes to 1.5 Tablespoons of the condensed oil. I'm skipping the HTO and sulfur ester for now, I want to keep it simple and use common components for now, the additives can be tested later. Anyway, the congeal point is 155F and it's stiff but workable at room temp. Still brittle, but that's ok because it's hard as a rock on the boolits but can still be applied with a heated lube-sizer. I think it will "make the jump" in most throats ok and yet melt right away with heat and friction.
This stuff smells good enough to eat between the honeysuckle smell of the carnauba and the honey smell of the beeswax, and the Redline doesn't smell too bad either once the solvents are cooked off.
I dip lubed 20 boolits in the molten lube and shoved them through a Lee sizer, MUCH easier than applying by hand, so give that a shot with these brittle, high-carnauba lubes for testing without filling a lube-sizer.
I have a question for everyone following this about Carnauba wax. It seems I heard a rumor somewhere that lubes containing carnauba tend to leave a film in the bore that attracts moisture due to some property of the wax. Is there any truth to this?
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