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Thread: Some pan lubing.

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    Some pan lubing.

    These shallow silicone baking dishes work nice. I heat them on low right on the stove top. This lube recipe is from Warf with some mods; 50% beeswax, 45% olive oil and 5% anhydrous lanolin. Stayed in the grooves well when I pulled them out.Click image for larger version. 

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    NOTE; This lube recipie is for black powder loads though it may work for mid range revolver loading with smokeless..
    Last edited by Cosmic_Charlie; 12-31-2021 at 08:14 AM.

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    Cool!

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    You need to pull the boolits when the cake is still a bit warm. I batched it all in a boiling water bath using the graduations on the pyrex beaker.

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    It must be livin on the bottom side of the earth does it .
    I tried that pull em out caper a couple times - total fail !
    Not that it mattered, I use a cookie cutter with a tee handle and its a flow through job,
    a couple thou bigger than the unsized boolits and a little flare on the mouth.
    that thing squeezes the lube into the grooves as it cuts and they pop out the top one after the other ready to to go
    I use a heat gun - put the next batch back in the old holes and remelt with the heat gun - quick as a flash and no burning of lube.

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    Sounds like you got a good system Joe.

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    I don’t pull the bullets when the lube is warm for trays of 50 and 100
    * Put the tray in the freezer and when lube is not adhered to sides of tray …
    * place a piece siding foam on bench and release the tray of bullets to the foam …nose upwith the lube almost hard
    *. Push bullets out with a piece of leather on my thumb
    Regards
    John

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    So Joe, I take it you did not order your cookie cutter from Brownell's.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cosmic_Charlie View Post
    So Joe, I take it you did not order your cookie cutter from Brownell's.
    nope -- I'm cheap - make all that kind of stuff - I do have one 44 cal I bought years ago (Lee)
    I use a fired case most times - neck expand it a few thou oversize - flare the end - cut the base off and fit it into a piece of broom handle (dowell) with a hole drilled through (bottleneck cases are the best - gives more clearance at the base end - flow through system is good - quick .

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    TY Joe

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