Liquid Car Wax

[ACC]

What bad things have you heard? Adding Johnson paste wax to alox based tumble lubes was extremely popular before it was discontinued and people used JPL because it contained carnuba wax. Instead of cooking off most of the JPL solvent you can get the same results by adding carnuba flakes at the end then diluting with mineral spirits. My version of 45-45-10 is just carnuba, beeswax, alox and paint thinner and it tumbles well and is not sticky when dried.

I'm with you. I tumble lube all my pistol bullets and powder coat my rifle bullets. Although I buy my 45-45-10 from white label(I think that is their name). Nice folks.

ACC

[danomano]

I put a couple drops of Ice Wax in my wet tumbler with the brass. keeps them nice and shinny.

[Shiloh]

There are tried and proven lube recipes here and on the net. Stick with one of those.
Who knows what the other chemicals are in commercial car wax. I got my carnauba wax. in Ebay.

Shiloh

[greenjoytj]

Good Cheer,
while you are filing that tidbit away, be sure to file away the thought that Barrel manufacturers don't polish the inside of their barrels. They leave them in a certain condition, to achieve a certain amount of friction. If a barrel is too polished (or too slippery by other means), accuracy suffers from shot to shot. This is also why I don't use Carnauba wax is a boolit lube.
I will admit, this doesn't matter with pistols being shot at typical pistol distances.

Hammer forged barrel rifling makes glass smooth barrel interiors and works in a superior fashion to reduce copper fouling.
Old fashion cut rifling would cost too much to smooth out to equal a hammer forged barrel.

The main reason I glean from reading internet post regarding Carnauba wax is that it leaves the bore shinny.
The quantity of Carnauba added to homemade lube is always reported to be very small.

[K43]

JPW's smell gives me flashbacks to Thursday night field day in the barracks and plus ultra shoe shines the day before a big inspection.

[Eddie Southgate]

On a tangent, has anyone tried Minwax Natural Paste Wax? It's available at the big box stores and online. On the surface, it appears that it would be a good substitute for Johnson's (no longer produced).

https://www.amazon.com/Minwax-785004...316aa5a9a&th=1

I know this is an older thread but you asked a question that needs answering. I have read several places that Minwax contained Carnauba just like Johnsons . I did however, call Minwax customer service and found out that Minwax is a mix of paraffin and mineral spirits with no Carnauba. Trewax and Lundmark both have the Carnauba wax.

[Kentucky146]

Car Wax I have heard of both positive and neg folks say it works well, others warn of the abrasive side, I have never used it