Hello again from the dunce in the class.
I have pan lubed my cast boolits since I began reloading for BPCR several years ago. Use a silicone meat loaf pan to set the boolits in. I pour the melted lube into the pan, then wait for the lube to solidify. I have found that the lube pulls away from the walls of the pan as it cools. That is a good indication that I can now easily remove the lube cake from the pan. However, after that, when I remove the boolits from the lube cake, I usually find a few of them with grooves that are not completely filled, apparently because the same shrinkage that makes it easy to remove the cake from the silicone pan also causes the lube to pull away from the boolits. I am left to apply lube by hand to these imperfections. They shoot good.
When I put a clock on it, if I include all the set up time and the waiting time, it begins to look like it might be faster just to finger lube all the boolits.
Any harm in that? Is there some reason I am not aware of that REQUIRES the lube to be applied in the liquid state?