Mixing lubes

[MTtimberline]

I have some old lube sticks from my casting start-up days that I'm wanting to use up. The lube is Jake's purple ceresin. I have used Jake's Moly ceresin and 50/50 with good results, but never used the purple in the sample pack. For some reason I was always uncertain of the purple. I was thinking of melting it with some 50/50 to make it harder. Would this mixture work for 9mm and .40sw? After it is gone I'm going to try some of the White Label offerings and randyrat's Tac1.

[runfiverun]

you are looking to make the 50/50 harder right?
the cersin will do that, just add about 25% to the 50-50 or use it alone. [I'd add a little lanolin too]
the purple takes heat to flow, but is a decent lube [nothing great but is better than the commercial micro-wax lubes]

[MTtimberline]

I like 50/50 for what it was intended for as a bullet lube. I like harder lubes for the way the bullets are kept in storage. I was thinking that mixing the ceresin I never use to be a way to make a harder 50/50 as you said. I decided experiment a little with the same load in 50/50, mixed, and just the purple. This will be a way to learn something while using up what I have on hand before ordering more. Eventually I would like to find two lubes for most of my needs and get another Lube-a-Matic. I did melt some purple and 50/50 together and Jake's **** brown was the result. Hope it works better than it looks. In the future I plan on doing a test between 50/50 and Speed Green also.

[runfiverun]

the 50-50 and speed green is pretty decent. [although softer]
it's similar to my simple lube [recipe published here somewhere]

mixing 50-50 2 to 1 with carnuba red and adding some lanolin is a good storage lube that works very well [it does take a sighter/cleaner/cold barrel shot to get going though]

[MTtimberline]

That sounds like a good combo. I'm going to keep it for reference for future use. Thank you for the info.