B/P lube

[fido]

Just wondering what you guys are using.
I'm loading for a 45-70 sharps 1874 Ubreti LR

I made up some lube 50% bees wax 40% no-name lard,10% canola oil, and added 4% lanolin. Looks good to begin with but after it goes through the RCBS sizer the lube looks a too soft. It kind of breaks it up. May have to add some bees wax.

Stephen

[13Echo]

That lube should work fine with BP. Try pan lubing. The temper of the lube tends to be harder when panlubed than when applied with a lubersizer. Make certain your lard doesn't have added salt.

Jerry Liles

[Springfield]

Knock the lard back to about 20% and up the lanolin to 10%, should work better in a sizer. Echo is right, extruding the lube in a sizer tends to make it softer than when pan lubing.

[fido]

Thanks guys. I used up the last of my lanolin. Anyone know of a cheep source say for a Lb.
Stephen

[Muddy Creek Sam]

Dixie Guns Works Sells it. No idea of price.

Sam

[powderburnerr]

www.thesage.com
try this for lanolin

[fido]

Cool thanks.

[powderburnerr]

change the lard to crisco and you might be just tickled pink.. it just dont turn rancid like lard does , any cheap chrisco knockoff works,......Dean

[NickSS]

I use a Lube made initially from 50-50 bees wax and Crisco and found it works fine in warm weather (not hot weather where I live it rarely gets above 80 degrees F in the summer) and in colder weather I add an ounce olive oil per 4 ounces of lube. Works well for me.

[59sharps]

50- 50 bees wax (melted)/ olive oil. more olive oil for cool weather

[fido]

Thanks fellas I should change the lard to no name shortning I think it said vegetable based.

Stephen

[High Desert Hunter]

Try the Bullshop's NASA lube, so far it is working much better than anything I have tried to make, I am using it for smokeless now too.

Dave

[10 ga]

I'd say to use deer tallow or mutton tallow in place of lard. If you want something softer try to get some bear lard. As for the vegetable oils, use peanut or safflower oil as they have higher smoke points, 75 - 100 degrees higher, than olive oil.

My mix is 1, 1, 1+-, = bees wax, deer tallow, peanut oil. I just vary the amount of oil to make winter or summer lube. 10 ga

[hydraulic]

I got the canola and the crisco mixed up when I made up the last batch; 50% beeswax, 40% canola and 10% crisco. Today I shot the best 5 shot, 100 yd. group out of my Browning BPCR that I have ever fired-1 3/4 inches. Fouling was softer, cleanup easier, and even the brass cleaned up easier. I'm going to stick with it.

[hiram]

Very good lube, never had leading, can use for pan lubing or pour it in the Lyman 450 resevoir.

Hydraulic--is this what you meant?

Here's the original formula that Buck Emmert put out. 50% pure natural beeswax, 40% Crisco Shortening (the no flavor variety), 10% Canola Oil

[hydraulic]

Hiram; Yeah, that's the one. I see the spelling that I used; Emetts lube, is incorrect.

[Bad Ass Wallace]

I use 50% Beeswax, 40% Copha (coconut oil) and 10% Virgin olive oil. Interesting thing with this mix is that it softens when worked but solidifies once in the lube grooves and definately no salts of any kind.

[hydraulic]

I went out to the kitchen and took down the can of Crisco and read the ingredients. Sodium 0%. Soybean oil, fully hydrogenated palm oil, partially hydrogenated palm and soybean oils, mono and diglycerides, tbho and citric acid. Is there salt in some of these oils?