It's cold outside, so I decided to do a little work in the garage. I been meaning to make up a little mold to cast my homemade lube into sticks, so I did. Cut some 1" thick wall PVC tubing to 5" length. Drilled a 2x4 to hold the tubing in place. All looked well until I tried to get the lube out of the tube. I can say for sure this is NOT the optimal way to do it. I tried freezing to get differential contraction, but physics wasn't on my side. Finally used the head gun to warm up the PVC (which is NOT an efficient heat conductor).
In the end, I got 8 nice sticks of lube, but it wasn't easy.
I'm thinking of trying 1" copper pipe next.
Anyone have useful experience in "casting" lube into sticks?
thanks
-john