What case lubes do you use?

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As the title, what case lubes do you use? Any tried and true or tried and fail?
Ive used the Lee stuff that comes in the 50th anniversary kit - kinda a pain
I now use 5W20 synthetic oil for simplicity, speed and damn if it aint cheap!
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Imperial Sizing Wax.

I used to use the RCBS lube and lube pad, and while it worked great (never had brass even come close to jamming in the die), it was a bit of a pain keeping the pad 'wet' enough, but not too 'wet'.

Having heard good things about the Imperial wax, I finally found a tin at P&D in Edmonton. Having tried it, I don't think I will ever go back to anything else, although I haven't tried the spray-on lubes yet (but have heard of people having jamming issues when using it).

Run a finger across the wax, lightly rub it on the brass, resize the brass, then wipe the wax off with a shop towel. The wax comes off really easily (unlike the RCBS stuff, which in my experience, left a residue which I suspect is responsible for eventual discolouration of the cases over time). That little tin will probably last me 10 years because so little stretches so very far!
 
RCBS Lube and pad

I too have been using the RCBS Lube and pad. I have never had a problem with any cases sticking, but have had a few issues with small dents on the case shoulder. I assume that I am getting a build up of lube in the resising die. I then get cramped fingers wiping the lube off with paper towels.
To lube the inside of the neck I spray a little liquid graphite on a neck brush, and then apply it with one or two swabs.

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RCBS case lube, got a good supply. My lube pad is a old tin box with paper towels folded up to fit. Change them maybe every 5 years whether they need it or not. A stamp pad works fine and likely cheaper than a brand name item. Tried Hornady one shot but wasn`t happy with it.
 
bwindsor said:
I too have been using the RCBS Lube and pad. I have never had a problem with any cases sticking, but have had a few issues with small dents on the case shoulder. I assume that I am getting a build up of lube in the resising die. I then get cramped fingers wiping the lube off with paper towels.

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if you have a dry media tumbler, throw the cases back in for 10 min or so and all the lube comes off.

as for the dents its probably to much lube on the case it self up around the shoulder area. a quick spray with break clean or the likes cleans the dies out easily with no residue left behind
 
convereted to imperial sizing wax after years of lee wax and rcbs lube and pad. its convient and wipes off easily and the best by far lube i have tried. stuff is dirt cheap.
 
chappy said:
convereted to imperial sizing wax after years of lee wax and rcbs lube and pad. its convient and wipes off easily and the best by far lube i have tried. stuff is dirt cheap.
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And another vote for the Imperial. Guys, if you haven't tried it yet, and you're still using the RCBS lube pad, you owe it to yourselves to give it a shot. The hardest part (for me at least) was just finding a damn tin of the stuff, but for $6.00, it will probably seriously last me 10 years. It wipes off WAY easier than the RCBS lube too (picture removing dust from the outside of a case).
 
The imperial is my go to,but Lee lube works better for military 308 cases that are hard to resize. Less friction with the Lee lube for this really tough resizing job.
 
for me the application of One Shot is why i use it.

I also have the lee wax but i like placing 50 cases out and spraying them from two sides and i'm good to go....I also dont just resize the case, i'm reforming 270 win and 30.06 into 8x57 and i relube the same case twice, sometimes three times in the process of converting once fired brass

lube once to run the brass through a 270win die to remove old primers, then its off to a wash, dry, throw the brass on the lathe to trim to right size (the reason i deprime first is that i use the lyman holder which uses a ball bearing in primer pocket to center the brass).
Once trimmed they are annealed, dropped in water, dried off again, lubed, ran through a 30.06 die to progressively stretch the neck, then through an 8x57 die, trimmed to spec, lightly lubed again, primed, powder fed and finally bullet fed.

everything is done in batches of 50 so you can see where just spraying them saves me a lot of time than individually applying lube.
 
Imperial sizeing die wax. I've used just about everything at one time or other, and feel its best of the bunch.

I can't get 10 years out of tin, more like 1. The can I opened in January is just about toast, but that's just a sign of haveing more than my share of fun.:D

Spray lubes gave me too many stuck cases, and mystery miss-fires.
 
MadMarty said:
I'm surprised no one else uses synthetic motor oil! Large quantities for dern cheap! Unless there's something bad I don't know about.....
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There's hundreds of things you can use for case lube. Some work better then others. Synthetic motor oil would work if you made sure you wiped the cases clean after or it could get onto the primer and powder. Synthetic motor oil would probably work better for cleaning guns off then for case lube.
 
I just started using Dillon Case Spray Lube with success so far. I'm full length resizing 5.56 and it allows me to do a lot in one go. I can quickly lube over 250 cases at a time and I'm only limited by the size of the cardboard box I'm using.
 
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