Case Lube
- Thread starter johnnyreb65
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- Edmonton, Alberta
I have Some Lymans aerosol and RCBS case lube-2. I find the Lymans works well with my federal brass and the RCBS works well with my Remington and Winchester Brass. For some reason the Remi and Win brass get dented shoulders when I use my Lymans case lube. Make sure you get a rolling pad and I use a q-tip to lube the throat and shoulders of the brass. I probably should get a lube brush.
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- big sky country
Case slick RCBS. Its a spray lube thats much neater than others. I would advise anyone to try it.
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- Location
- Edmonton, Alberta
I know know the cause of dented shoulders and how it happens but I've only every had a problem with my win and remi brass even when I give them a light coating and half the time if I do that I get my win and remi brass stuck in the die set if I use my lymans but not once with my RCBS. It's just really stiff then. Considering getting some RCBS dies or just some shoulder resizing dies.
Have used Lee and Hornady lube products but I found them to be messy and to easy to apply to much and had a number of dented cases. I am switching to Imperial Sizing Die Wax for full length resizing and graphite for neck sizing. I just ordered a lot of new equipment from Sinclairs last week and haven't tried it yet but that is what my personal experience, and observations of others, has lead me to.
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Where do you get that from? Don't say any Walmart in the pharmaceutical grade lanolin section.
+1 Rutger.
I mix it 1 to 5 (99% Iso. Alcohol) and put it in a small pump spray bottle. I line up about 20 or 30 cases on a flat clean surface and a quick spray on one side let them dry for 2-3 minutes and roll them over to the other side and spray again and you are done. You don't need much and a pound of anhydrous lanolin will last a long time.
When I reload for the AR-15 I will sit at the dinner table with a old cookie sheet that I use and I will line up about 50 or so and spray the one side, wait 5 minutes and just roll them to the other side and same thing again. Then I just store them in a used ice cream pail with a lid and there you go.
For some more great homemade recipes go to http://www.frfrogspad.com/homemade.htm
I mix it 1 to 5 (99% Iso. Alcohol) and put it in a small pump spray bottle. I line up about 20 or 30 cases on a flat clean surface and a quick spray on one side let them dry for 2-3 minutes and roll them over to the other side and spray again and you are done. You don't need much and a pound of anhydrous lanolin will last a long time.
When I reload for the AR-15 I will sit at the dinner table with a old cookie sheet that I use and I will line up about 50 or so and spray the one side, wait 5 minutes and just roll them to the other side and same thing again. Then I just store them in a used ice cream pail with a lid and there you go.
For some more great homemade recipes go to http://www.frfrogspad.com/homemade.htm
I think when the Lymans lube is gone, I'd simply stick to anything else if you are having issues with it. The brand of dies isn't going to change much.
Neck dies might help, but in a M88 levergun, you may or may not be able to use them.
- Location
- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
Imperial Sizing Wax and Imperial Dry Neck Lube for me too. Another benefit of the dry neck lube is if you uniform primer pockets of new brass. Dipping the cutter into the dry neck lube improves the cutting action as does carbon desposits when uniforming once fired brass. Just make sure its clean each time you dip it so you don't end up with brass cuttings in the lube. It is also useful to ease the turning of a case on the madral when neck turning.
