I ......just as many here have been playing with adnormally high amounts of Ivory Soap in lube recipes. I have not gotten the accuracy with them, but the main issue is as follows:
Last Wed/Thur Mid Michigan was "treated" to 85-90 degree temps with ultra high humidity.
I had all my high soap lubes out in the open on my casting bench getting ready to make a homogenized batch of soapy mutt lube out of all the old test candidates/failures and such. Every single lube that was made with 9% or more Ivory soap in the lube recipe had a patchy/whitish coating of what could be best described as slime that extended about 1/8 inch into the lube blocks. It was kinda like petting a wet toad when I touched the lube blocks. Ivory soap is not as corrosive as say Dawn dishsoap, but it is still a base that is slightly caustic according to some. I can only imagine what the soapy lube residue from high soap lubes would do to a rifle bore in such hot/moist conditions.....It could be ugly if kept unchecked and who here among us wants to treat their cast boolit launchers like a muzzleloader?
Just a little heads up for those who might be following and trying to replicate some of the lubes in the "QUEST" thread. No more than 5% Ivory will go into any of my lubes from here on out. I can only presume that the higher soap percentages are failing to be encapsulate the wax/oil molecules....which in turn is causing the soap to suck water out of the air and turn lube into goopy slime. My lubes with no or minimal soap did not show any such traits, just the higher % soap lubes.
Those of you that live where it gets hot and moist............You have been warned......if you live somewhere where it is always dry I guess things that work for you simply will not work for all.
thanks for listening,
Mike