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Hi Guys...
I have been doing casting for a while now and using store bought bullet lube. I would like to try making some. The main ingredient in most of the lube recipes I have found is beeswax. What are you guys using? I need recipes for both smokeless and black powder loads.
Thanks in advance!!!
 
There are plenty of recipes on the net, however, most use bees wax, smokeless lubes can use petrol products but BP lube CAN NOT!!! The newest/best lubes use PURE carnuba as an additive for smokeless and pure lanolin as an additive for BP lube.
 
I have seen reipes using carnuba wax and lanolin. Can lanloin be purchased at a pharmacy? Where can carnuba wax be purchased?
Thanks
 
Lanolin can be purchased at a drug store. You can get a tiny tube of what mothers put on their vitals when they are nursing, for maybe about eight bucks. Or, they may have it in bulk, but it is not cheap.
I used 50-50 bees wax and beef suet in 30-06 cast bullets and got along fine with it. The first thing I read about bullet casting said the buffalo hunters used 50-50 bees wax and beef suet! Prest, if it was good enough for them it was good enough for me.
 
You can buy lanolin at your local drug store... My Rexall store didn't have any in stock and got their ware house to send it to them and I picked it up the next day. One pound jar was $12.50 for Hydrous Lanolin...same price for Anyhydrous lanolin depending on which type you want.

Learned from fellow CGN's a while back that this is the best stuff for resizeing cases and been useing it since then. Done about a thousand cases so far and still have 95% of the original pound left . At this rate.. $12.50 is cheap.
 
Lube Recipes

:)I made about 10lbs of Felix's Lube about 3 years ago. The formula can be found on the Cast Boolits website -

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=543

The anhydrous lanolin can be bought for the best price at Walmart-ask the pharmacist. The rest of the ingredients aren't too hard to find. Add crayons for colour. In the end the cost per stick ended up being about 50 cents. I have used the lube for everything up to about 2400 fps.- no leading. Group sizes have been about 10% better than the lyman alox or saeco green lube I had been using. The stuff works in hot and cold weather - no change of impact. Definitely worth the effort if you shoot a lot of cast bullets. I use it exclusively now.
 
Try 75% bees was and 25% bacon grease. Put your fingers in the warm liquid and just wipe some on the bullet. I've used this for a while using home cast bullets and the barrel stayed incredibly clean and lead free. I now take the easy way out and use Lee's bullet lube. I cut a bottle in half with paint thinner, pour it on and tumble.


I wonder if I could be charged with baiting if I up the bacon grease content during bear season.....here yogi yogi yogi....breakfast time :D

Edit: I should note. When the mix cools down, it turns solid. You can warm it back up again with a torch, or in the microwave, and it never goes moldy.
 
I've been using mixtures mostly consisting of bees wax and Crisco. The next batch that I am about to make is going to be a bit more exotic with lanolin and possibly carnuba wax or ivory soap in it. Just need to find a small enough pot for experimental batches.

The Cast bullet forum has a number of different things to try too. They seem to like tranny oil and STP in a lot of their mixes.
 
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