MELTING TEMPERATURES - Various Lubes

[John Boy]

Bullet Lube Melting Points
Product # Bullet Lubes Temperature
272327 Thompson Red Angel Bullet Lube Hollow 240 degrees
526800 Rooster Red Zambini Bullet Lube Hollow 220 degrees
149803 Rooster Red Zambini Bullet Lube Solid 220 degrees
503552 Rooster Red High-Velocity Rifle Bullet Lube Hollow 200 degrees
653882 Javelina Alox Bullet Lube Hollow 190 degrees
637649 Lyman Black Powder Gold Lube 150 degrees
461543 Lyman Super Moly Lube 150 degrees
521810 Lyman Orange Magic Hollow 150 degrees
341106 Lyman Ideal Bullet Lubricant Hollow 141 degrees
309145 Saeco Green Bullet Lube Hollow 140 degrees
120084 Saeco Gold Bullet Lube Hollow 140 degrees
542859 SPG Bullet Lube 140 degrees
178480 Thompson Bear Lube Heat Hollow 135 degrees
785628 Lyman Alox Bullet Lube Hollow 130 degrees
352552 Thompson Bear Lube Cold Hollow 125 degrees
254626 Thompson Blue Angel Bullet Lube Solid 125-140 degrees
667050 Thompson Blue Angel Bullet Lube Hollow 125-140 degrees
670747 RCBS Pistol Bullet Lubricant Hollow 115 degrees
267941 RCBS Rifle Bullet Lubricant Hollow 115 degrees
632694 Lee Alox Bullet Lube Stick Hollow Room temperature needs no heater

Midway Chart

[osteodoc08]

I wonder how those stack up to some of our more local favorites.

[OLPDon]

John Boy

Thanks for the info................

Looks like if some of the Homebrews Guys added temps of their lubes, there might be a sticky for referral for us not as knowledgeable......

Just a thought.

Don

[randyrat]

TAC 1 is about 140-145 F. I can't measure it to the Deg....It pours nicely at 155 F.

Don't use a heat source in the desert as demonstrated below.

[Grump]

I can tell you that TAC#1 at 105° F will flow so easily through a Star Lubri-sizer that you can get excess on boolit noses with annoying regularity.

Left the light bulb shining on it too long last weekend starting out with the garage NOT really cool.

But it's still sticky as snot and hard to wipe off the boolits where you don't want it.

Temperature of the sizer was checked with an IR thermometer that was calibrated some time in the last 20 years.

Pretty sure that I tried some RCBS or Javelina 50/50 (did Javelina make that???) years ago when the garage was 95° F and it was way too runny to work at all. Not drippy, but pretty much no resistance to getting squeezed through the die holes.

[randyrat]

That was very kind of you for adding that information.

[FrontSite]

I use Jake's Purple Lube with a heater. I have a PID temp. controller attached to my 450 Lyman via a threaded port in the base. I had the PID set to 120 Degrees and had lube going everywhere I didn't want or need it. I kept backing the set temp down and finally was happy at 108 degrees.

[remy3424]

Just received Kyle's PID with the low temp TC to put into the alum plate my 450 is mounted to, running heat to my 450 with a clothing iron. Using White Label Carb Red, would 100 degrees be a good starting point? Anyone have much experience doing this?

[Grump]

I'd like to add that unlike anything else I've ever used regularly, the TAC#1 doesn't "weep" or drip at high temperatures, either. One of the Extreme Lube Quest's SL series with high soap content equaled it for tolerating 140°+ on the dashboard (last summer IIRC), but its low-temp performance and high-temp performance was great in pistols but reportedly fouled in rifles.

Since the fastest I'm going with rifles is .30 Carbine stuff, the TAC#1 will probably do there, too.

I would like to get the slump and drip temperatures for the latest version of Satan's Lube, Ben's Red, Mike's Magical Mystery or whatever the final version of that is, and Felix World Famous Lube put in this thread.

Maybe I'll post in the presently-dormant Extreme Lube thread and ask what the intrepid experimenters know.

[h8dirt]

Just received Kyle's PID with the low temp TC to put into the alum plate my 450 is mounted to, running heat to my 450 with a clothing iron. Using White Label Carb Red, would 100 degrees be a good starting point? Anyone have much experience doing this?

I have a very similar arrangement. I run C-Red at 100 degrees F and a 50/50 mix of C-red and BAC at 90 degrees. A thought … I'd recommend that you consider moving the TC to the side of the 450 body so that you are measuring the temp' near the sizing die rather than the heating element, though. I bought a copper terminal from Lowes and J-B welded it to mine. Works great!

[dmize]

Oddly enough I bought a Lyman 450 from Llloyd Smale. He include several sticks of lube with it. 5 sticks of Javelina and one of Saeco Gold. It is about 70 in my house and those lubes smear onto my fingers so easily I really don't want to use them.

[35 shooter]

I sat in 100* temp. for 4 hrs. with no roof over the bench with some ammo with one lube groove exposed above the case mouth and lubed with Ben's Red the other day. It never left the groove the whole time nor ran or dripped. Groups were same as usual. Shot the same lube for groups in 20* in the winter with same results on groups. I think Ben has killed deer in much colder weather with this lube.
Runs easily through my lube sizer summer or winter.

BTW...that ammo got Hot! It also puts clean and cold bbl. shots in the group from MY rifle.