1st attempt at an alternate mixture to replace the orig BLL

Goatwhiskers

Goatwhiskers

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Apparently folks around here don't wax their floors much. All the stores for 30 miles around only have a foot or so of shelf space for floor care and NEITHER of the suggested brands, just cheap water based stuff. When the BLL first "came out" I couldn't find any liquid so cobbled up something close using Lee Alox, a gob of JPW, and mineral spirits. Seemed to work OK, at least didn't lead my barrel and dried nicely. Completely unscientific and probably can't duplicate it. Oh,well, something will turn up, something always turns up. GW
 
Chris C

Chris C

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Ben said:
My alternate mixture on my cast bullets has worked out great.
The appearance, the toughness on the bullet, and the accuracy seem to be on par with my original BLL.

What I've found however is it takes quite a bit more of the solvents in the mixture to get it to work. It was obvious when I uncapped the two containers ( The Lundmark Liquid Wax & The Xlox, Liquid Alox ) that both were quite a bit thicker than I'd anticipated.

It was after making that observation that I kicked the " Solvent Component " up to a full 40 %. Seems to have been a good decision. So , I'm now at :

30% Lundmark liq. wax
30% Xlox
40% solvent ( mineral spirits )
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Ben, I read every post on 18 pages of the original BLL thread and found it interesting...........no, very interesting. Sorry the Johnson's product was discontinued. (Thank you, tree huggers, I'm sure we'll all live hundreds of years longer with it's demise!) You've not posted on the "new" BLL since back in September. Any further testing and comments?

Has anyone compiled a list somewhere of all, if not most of the home-brewed lubes so a fellow could test them? Since I've been on this site soaking up info, I've only come up with a few. It's a subject that interests me now I know the importance of lube on accuracy.
 
David Reiss

David Reiss

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At the CBA we currently have a member testing lubes for velocity up to 3000 fps with some good success. He is not the first member to gain such success and it is discussed in Joe Brennan's CBA 500 page book, Cast Bullets for Beginners & Experts. Ben I will be following your pursuit.
 
Chris C

Chris C

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Duh, I figured out fiver, so the other is also "the hat", huh? The "Anti-Socialist Texan" is Ian?

Okay, I've got it saved. Too late to start a 16 page thread tonight. I'll go through it tomorrow some time.
 
Brad

Brad

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Lets just say someone made a mistake of referring to us as the three amigos once.
 
David Reiss

David Reiss

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You can try them all, but the NRA Alox and 50/50 beeswax to vaseline with a touch of crayon to give it some color are tough to beat. I know I have been trying them for more years than I want to admit.
 
KHornet

KHornet

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Have found over the years that substitutes most often come close to the original,
but never quite reach the exact.

Paul
 
fiver

fiver

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Ian is Gear, and Brad is Btroj.
there are a few other big hats over there too.
one shows up here from time to time, one hardly posts there anymore, and I'm trying to get the other one to get on board here.
 
Ian

Ian

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I just went back and read that thread through page seven. It occurred to me that that's the closest thing to a graduate degree in bullet lubrication technology that exists in print. References, though only cited once, can be found in the Extreme Lube thread.
 
fiver

fiver

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yeah I want to make it a sticky but it would seem kind of umm ??? self aggrandizing maybe.
 
Ian

Ian

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I've been trying to figure out for years how it didn't become a sticky on its own merit, even before you were finally drafted into the mod position. I'm glad to see it bumping the top again, even though the best stuff is buried deep in the middle of the thread where not a lot of people are going to make it and still be awake.

Good grief, I just looked to see which thread we were yammering on and realized we just totally wrecked Ben's thread. Yikes. Sorry Ben! Carry on.........
 
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