Homemade Lube, Geargnasher's SL68 recipe
Gear posted about SL67 in post 2786 of the extreme Lube thread.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?148746-quot-Extreme-quot-boolit-lube-The-Quest&p=2712126&viewfull=1#post2712126
SL68 seems to be the same ingredients, but tweaked a bit?
I would post the recipe, but Gear hasn't been online for some time, and I'll wait for his permission before doing so.
ANYWAY, today was the next step in my shooting 243win cast boolits at high velocity experiment. It was LUBE making day.
Gear's SL-68 was fairly easy and straight forward to make, I added a couple of blue crayon pieces for color, that was a mistake !
I am posting a bunch of photo's so you can see how the cooking progresses. When Soap is added, it foams up to about 3x volume and is like stirring seafoam. Then cooks down to a COW texture. Then clears up to a nice amber.
When I reached the prescribed temp, I removed heat, then added the two crayon pieces after the amberish liquid cooled to about 350ish and the stuff lumped up, So I heated it back up to try and get it liquid again, I think something in the crayon scorched :oops:
When it cooled, I noticed different colored layers, 3 of them, (Brown, blue, then brown again). I had already poured this first batch into the lube sizer, so I'm gonna give it a try, but I did make a second batch (without any crayon), just in case, since I was all setup, as you can see in the Tuna can photo, The second batch is a nice tan/light brown color. I really like how easy it flows through a lubesizer and how it feels silky, but a little more tack to it, than the MML+soap that I got from Mike (357maximum).
fyi, to those how look for the ironic details, I also melted/blended some BP lube, hence the 'other' ingredients on the table
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