Just wondering how many parts/parts to add, like 1/4 etc. All replies appreciated.
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Just wondering how many parts/parts to add, like 1/4 etc. All replies appreciated.
I think its 10 :1
I mix it 10:1 with great results.
Of course the other way is not to add any alcohol at all. Put a VERY small amount (finger smear) of lanolin in the palm of your hand, rub the hands together to distribute the lanolin (and soften the hands), then roll cases between your hands, about half a dozen at a time. Add lanolin as required. You'll pretty soon get the hang of it. Degree of lube on hands required will depend on resistance of cases to sizing. Adjust as necessary. For instance I use more for .308 than for .30-30. If you can see lanolin on the skin you are using far too much.
10:1 works for me. Last a long time cause it disperses very well. Good spray plastic bottle into a plastic bag coats everything very well.
Just remember to let the alcohol flash off or you will stick a case in a heart beat. Don’t ask how I know.
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8:1
Thanks for all the help.
One ounce of liquid lanolin per 12 ounces of Isoheat is what I've used with great results.
Slim
Yeap, 10/1 is what I use.
its anywhere from 8:1 to 10:1.
because......processing 1000 round batches of LC brass on a DILLON XL650 with a casefeeder.
DILLON XL650
1.decapper.
2. SWAGE-IT primer pocket swager
4. size die / RT1200 electric trimmer.
5. redding neck sizer.
spray lube LC 5.56 brass, pour into XL650 casefeeder, each pull produces a de-capped, resized, trimmed, crimped primer pocket crimp removed.
notice that My hands never touch the case, never tire nor get dirty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uBj...nDiu1Q&index=2
next polish brass in 20/40grit corn cob, to remove the lanolin.
change toolhead to
1. Lyman M-die
2. powder funnel
3. powder check system
4. bullet seater
5, crimp die if needed.
now load them up, just like pistol....
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Goodness Derek, that reloading podcast and your equipment list is impressive but do you often load in thousand round batches?
Whatever, but I wasn't posting to an obvious expert reloader with years of experience and thousands of dollars worth of everything like you; I was posting to the OP. You know, the nice fellow who started this thread by simply asking how to rightly mix his case lube? :)
I mix 10:1 and put it in an old "off" bug spray pump bottle. I put 25 44-40 cases at a time into a plastic container. I use two to three pumps per 50 cases. No idea how much material comes out with one small pump but......I shake the container slightly leaning it at an angle and many of the case stand up. I can typically remove the cases on end about 6 at a time.
No mess on my hands is kind of what I am getting at and minimal use of the oil in the pump.
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Lanolin is very slick and it's clean. I know it's been used for case resizing, reforming and jacketed bullet swaging since at least the 1950s, probably earlier.
Dillon sells lanolin in a spray can but, IIRC, they didn't invent it. I think Hornady was the first to mass market it as a spray lube in their "1 Shot" form ... I think. ???
No need to add any lanolin if you buy a can of Bag Balm at the drug store for 6 bucks
I use 10:1 using 90% alcohol, and recently formed almost 100 .243 Win out of .308 Win with zero issues. Used the baggie lube method.
Doesn't the slight amount of anhydrous lanolin that will suspend in alcohol determine the mix?
What I mean is that only so much lanolin will go into the mix so if you throw some alcohol in a can on top of some lanolin won't it only pick up as much as it actually can? And that there is your mix?
I don't know this for sure, therefore I'm asking.
I use a dab of lanolin covered in alcohol in the bottom of a pimento jar.
I have no idea and could care less....it works!!!
and to add....
I can not tell ya'll how many loads I have made with this little bit. No mess, nothing gets on my hands and it mixes very well with 91% alcohol. Shake two or three times before use. Most simplest thing I have ever used for case lube and will never go back to anything else.
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Has anyone tried the product "Fluid Film" as a source for lanolin?
I use 14:1 which I thought was the ratio that dillon uses, but cant remember where I found that. Either way it works great havent had any issues yet sizing a few thousand 300BO cases.
I have and it's great for long term storage of your prized firearms .
Beating the horse, I mix 1 oz of pure liquid Lanolin to 12 oz. of 99% Iso Alcohol. Can't begin to tell you where I got the recipe but it works.
Bought one bottle of Dillion DCL originally with my 650 but just blend & fill that bottle now. It goes on any brass running in that machine. So much smoother and lower force. Even pistol brass.
I tried the Hornady stuff I like to call 1-Stuck. The name is appropriate. DCL is superior, converted a couple buddies to it too. They were quite pessimistic about how much less effort it is on the handle but were shocked by how well this simple recipe works.
Usual mix for me is about 2 oz (1/2 4oz bottle) to a full bottle of the red HEET. About 8/1 and works through a spray bottle. I stand the cases up in a tray and a light spritz from both sides covers well. Before sizing I wipe the case with my fingers to ensure full coverage. After sizing lay them on an old T-shirt and hit with Brake cleaner and wipe off the worst of it and then into the tumbler with walnut and an oz or two of mineral spirits.
The pimento jar.
Been using the same glob under alcohol forever.
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I had to learn not to over do the lube. First starting out I definitely added too much and when they dried, there was a thick line film on there resulting in dented shoulders. I like the rule of a few pumps per 30-50 cases depending on what your sizing. It doesn't take much as long as you shake it up enough. I usually do my 10:1 lube coatings in a galling freezer bag.
GONRA sez - quit beatin' yer brains out
Use STP Oil Treatment or Tri-Flow Synthetic Grease.
These have proven to handle the most difficult resizing jobs..
10 ounces of 99% isopropol alcohol + 1 ounce of liquid lanolin (liquid measure) in a spray bottle capable of producing a fine mist spray. That’s what I use on straight walled and bottle neck cases.
I'm on the ban-wagon of 1:10 lanolin/Isoheat (red bottle) but I also add 5% Ballistol by volume just for good measure. I case form and case size with this formula with great success, from pistol to rifle brass, it lasts a long while and is very economical to make!!!
Need some help PLEASE. I made some spay lube for the first time. Used 12 to 1. I only had the solid lanolin I use for swaging so I heated it up to melt it. Couldn't find any 99% alcohol so I used the Isoheat like slim1836 used. The lanolin would not stay in suspension so I had to shake before using. Sprayed around 200 Lake City Match 72 308 brass and it worked smooth as silk. I wet tumbled, then sized and trimed and then tumbled again overnight to get the lube off and put the luster back on the cases. When I opened the tumbler the water was almost black and the cases looked like russian steel cases. I rinsed the tumbler and pins and retumbled. The second time I only used 1/2 table spoon of dawn and 1//2 teaspoon of lemishine. Again they caame out looking like steel cases. Really smooth and clean just not brass colored. I trim on a Giraud. Attached is a pic of the cases. The first three were just tumbled. The second three were after sizing and trimming and the last three are what they look like after tumbling twice. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I plan to load and shoot them - they look pristine except for the color - not a speck of residue outside or inside.
Thanks,
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I am just guessing but it may be that you tumbled too long, I've never left my brass overnight in a solution with citric acid. You might try some in a vibratory tumbler to remove the dark matter. Or, wash without citric acid, just Dawn, for a while.
Slim
Way too much lemishine and too long…just add a pinch and work up if needed. The acid in lemishine leaches out the zinc in the brass so don’t over do it.
D you need to clean the lanolin/alcohol case lube off the cases after your done sizing?