crabo
Normaly I do not use heat for speed green. Abnormaly like when its -50f and my shop is kinda cold I do use just a bit of heat. A light bulb should work nicely.
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crabo
Normaly I do not use heat for speed green. Abnormaly like when its -50f and my shop is kinda cold I do use just a bit of heat. A light bulb should work nicely.
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BIC/BS
after its' mixed I don't need any heat to run it in my lyman 450
i am not trying to change your good lube but . if i wanted a little harder-stiffer lube would 4-1 work? i guess i mean would the lube work and what would be the problums with doing that ? also do you get the bw melted first then add the bull plate ?
686
Well Sir I can only guess since I havnt tried it that way but my guess would be yes.
The bullplate is such an efficiant lube that I dont think the reduction in percentage will hurt. Look at how little it takes to keep a mold in good order.
For me up here where its cold it may affect the temp at which it will shoot well.
The bullplate will not freeze at any temp I have submited it to down to -50 or so so when mixed has the effect of keeping the bees wax soft in the barrel even at very cold temps where some lubes will harden to the point the the boolit begins to ride the lube and is deformed by it. As a rule in realy cold weather I will soften the lube with more bullplate to adjust for that effect. Actually what I have started doing is just using nasa lube in winter for all my smokless loads.
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What the heck is NASA lube?
Crabo
Do not argue with idiots. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
The density of Beeswax is listed as ranging between 0.953 and 0.970.Originally Posted by TCLouis
Happy Shootin'! -Tom
NASA lube is our black powder lube formula. It is much softer than speed green.
We started out calling it nasa lube with space stuff because of the technology developed by/for nasa with synthetic ester fibers which is the lube base for bullplate.
Try doing a search for it here at CB. There has been some interesting stuff written about it.
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Just make sure it aint near water!! Land anywhere near water is now so expensive, that only the out-of state rich guys can afford it! Small, camp lots on any frog pond around here are going for 30-50 grand! Us natives are screwed. Times are a changin!!!!!What's really scary Dan, is that you're likely talking about the ancient small packets of Kool Aid, where you put in your own sugar (which is much too complicated for the "modern" man)...
Of course the chief advantage of making Kool Aid this way (which any frugal little old lady Sunday school teacher knows) is that you can "cheat" on the sugar. This not only stretches a 5 lb. bag, but makes the little boys slightly less hyper active.
Don't ask me how I know
Man alive, even the Walton's had "electrified lights"
secretly jealous here.
Maybe I need to move from the extreme southern end of Maine to the extreme northern end. I bet I could pick up a hundred acres and a fixer up farm house for a song.
Dan,
Have you ever mixed Speed Green with some Lanolin, carnauba, or Vasoline?
Not looking for you to give away any secrets, but wondering if the effects those three ingredients potentially bring to the party would accomplish anything with the ingredients you've already got in the Bull Plate lube...?
Somebody please tell me if this would work. Not having a postal scale, but owning three 2 oz. blocks of beeswax I got from da'Bay, I figure...close enough! Melt the wax, dump in the contents of one of the neat little white bottles of Bullplate lube, stir, don't shake, so as not to bruise the mixture,and FEAR NOT!
There has to be something wrong with that...it's too easy! Oh, yeah...how would adding a tbsp. of Johnson's Paste Wax affect anything ? Would it harden the mix?
Cheeers
Why not try it the way it is recommended before you mess with the formula? How will you know if you have improved it, or made it less effective by changing it without trying it first?
Just some questions,
Crabo
Do not argue with idiots. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
On another thread therw were guys mixing JPW and lee mule snot, and some even adding moly powder to these two. Claiming good results too. I suspect that some carnauba might help speed green at human type (summer) temperatures, but would possibly cause hard lube buildup in the bore at inhuman (Alaskan) temperatures. Same with moly.
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Dan, when I mixed up a batch, I thought it was a hard lube.
Richard
Cat, the other white meat!!
Because I CAN, old boy!
Actually, I was kind of hoping someone with experience with the mixture(s) could say "Well, tried it, and this is what happened." MUCH better than messing up a whole batch, when accurate knowledge is available and willingly shared.
For a harder lube for those requesting that we mix one oz of pure carnauba wax to one pound of speed green. It dont work no better its just harder and less sticky.
We call it SGC for speed green with carnauba. The SGC will need a bit of heat for those north of the M.D. line and maybe not for them on the right side.
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What's really scary Dan, is that you're likely talking about the ancient small packets of Kool Aid, where you put in your own sugar (which is much too complicated for the "modern" man)...
Of course the chief advantage of making Kool Aid this way (which any frugal little old lady Sunday school teacher knows) is that you can "cheat" on the sugar. This not only stretches a 5 lb. bag, but makes the little boys slightly less hyper active.
Don't ask me how I know
Man alive, even the Walton's had "electrified lights"
secretly jealous here.
Maybe I need to move from the extreme southern end of Maine to the extreme northern end. I bet I could pick up a hundred acres and a fixer up farm house for a song.
And for a real treat you can put the Koolaid in icetrays for homemade popsicles sans stick.
Hey yall, Never heard of bullplate
WhitworthNewby,
welcome to the forum
Bullplate is a sprue plate lube
More info here
https://castboolits.gunloads.com/sho...873-Bull-Plate
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