Caranuba Red

[bishopgrandpa]

gwpercle has the idea for stacking bullets after they are prepped. I use small flat rate boxes with the tops for a divider between layers. Perfect size for most shelves and not to heavy.

[justindad]

Making your own lube does not have to be expensive.
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I make FWFL with extra soap and I add some 180F MC wax so it does well in South Carolina. You can also make Lithi-Bee, which is nothing more than beeswax and red lithium grease mixed together.

[gwpercle]

Making your own lube does not have to be expensive.
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I make FWFL with extra soap and I add some 180F MC wax so it does well in South Carolina. You can also make Lithi-Bee, which is nothing more than beeswax and red lithium grease mixed together.

Garth Choate gave me the recipe for the Lube he used to make and sell ,
Lithium Grease - Beeswax ... aka ... Lithi-Bee
1 part Lithium Grease ( Lucas Red-N-Tacky) by weight - 1 pound
3 parts Beeswax - by weight - 3 pounds

When they made it ... a batch consisted of 8 pounds Lithium Grease and 24 pounds Beeswax .
I have never had leading when using this lube in handgun boolits .
Garth seemed to think it was a better lube than the 50-50 Alox-Beeswax after the formula for Alox was changed ... I tend to agree with him on this ...
I don't reload much rifle but in Handguns ... it's worth a look-see .
Gary

[murf205]

I use a home made heater and power it through a rheostat dimmer switch to control the temp and use a 100 watt cartridge heater 1/4" in diameter. I use Carnauba Red in 90% of my cast that I don't powder coat. Works great for me at all velocities under 1800 fps. LBT Blue is my other lube and I have had the same excellent results with it as well and it get as hot in central Alabama as it does anywhere else.Attachment 338709 I size my boolits cold with no acetone or alcohol and sometimes it is months before I size after casting.

[Eddie Southgate]

I used to cast large quantities of bullets and store them lubed and sized and had issues with them losing some lube over time , usually not enough to hurt unless I was using a real hard lube like Lyman Orange Magic. I found a very simple solution that allows me to use hard or soft lube with no loss of lube issues . I cast a few hundred at a time instead of a few thousand , size and lube then load the whole batch. They don't lose lube once loaded . I don't store ammo in heat so that has never been an issue.

[gwpercle]

If you lube , size and stack boolits neatly , side by side , standing up, base down to fill a cotainer ...
You can use soft or hard lube and it wont get knocked off / out .
Dumping loose boolits into some big jar/ box just is not the best way to do it ...
Stack them neatly , side by side , standing up ... and the boolit lube stays put and you don't get all those pesky nick's and ding's and dents from dumping loose in some jar / box and banging them around . That's not good practice for your carefully cast , sized and lubed boolits .
In My World , soft lube works better than hard lube and neatness counts .
Stack them Boolits ... it's not hard !
Gary

[lotech]

I've used several of the White Label lubes and found they can be used pretty much interchangeably, at least for handgun loading, but I generally use their 2500 or their half & half equivalent. I size and lube conventionally, then sprinkle bullets with powdered mica and/or corn starch in a container I can close and shake to get everything coated and prevent lubed bullets from sticking together in storage, especially in hot weather.