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Thread: Another Lee Tumble Lube Question

  1. 06-18-2009, 01:04 PM #1
    Steve in Michigan
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    Another Lee Tumble Lube Question

    Where can I get some motor mica from a local source? Do auto supply houses or whatever carry the stuff? Are there other materials I can use to dust my boolits after I tumble lube them?

    I guess what made me decide to tumble lube is my mold for a .452 200-grain semi-wadcutter (Like H&G 68) has a bevel base and it raises hell with my RCBS sizer because I get a lube ring around the bevel at the base. Has anybody found a remedy to this? Anyway, I have decided that it is just easier to tumble lube them but I was to get rid of the stickyness after lubing.

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  2. 06-18-2009, 01:30 PM #2
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    I don't know where you can get motor mica, but as far as the bevel base, you could beagle it out to a plain base.
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    Use corn starch. ... felix
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  4. 06-18-2009, 03:11 PM #4
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    One of the fellows here sent me some gas checks to put in the seat. I trimmed one down, the bevel base fits into it, and I get no lube on the base. That was for a Lyman35891 wadcutter mold. Same technique would work for your mold.

    I have had a machinist friend mill the bevel base off of a LEE mold, and am going to have him do another. That boolit, a .401 LEE TLSW is more accurate now.

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BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
C Compressed Charge PR Primer SPCL Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP Hollow Point PSPCL Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" C.O.L. Cartridge Overall Length
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