I was looking at a clip on YouTube about home made case lube from isopropyl alcohol and lanolin oil. Has anyone here tried it? From what I see it may be difficult finding the alcohol. Or. Is it easy to come by?
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I was looking at a clip on YouTube about home made case lube from isopropyl alcohol and lanolin oil. Has anyone here tried it? From what I see it may be difficult finding the alcohol. Or. Is it easy to come by?
could mix it with meths
its easy to get from a industrial chemical supplier
A lot of dope growers use isopropyl on whatever is left over after they've got the smoke able stuff (trimmings leaves etc) to get the oil out. They soak all the surplus crap, then evaporate or cook off the isopropyl, and, assuming they haven't blown their kitchen up, they are left with cannabis oil (class b illegal drug basically)
I'm interested in this homemade case lube but there will be questions asked when you go to buy it. You'd only need a couple 100ml though right?
Cannabis oil won't make good case lube :)
It'll slow it down and it'll get lost for sure
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Heaps there in differing amounts.
I figure about 500ml should do the trick. That way it will work better in a spray bottle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tommy
Not to many of them in Wanganui....lolQuote:
Originally Posted by northdude
Ram raid central lol
I am just waiting for my liquid lanolin to turn up. I cant find a NZ source.
Now Foods, Solutions, Liquid Lanolin, 4 fl oz (118 ml) - iHerb.com
I have bought this of trade me last week.
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The Dillon spray is dam good but I thought I would make some myself. Will mix at about 1:10 ratio.
I have tried the Serious shooters in house made stuff as well. Works well but need to give it a good shake before using.
What's wrong with this?
Now Foods, Solutions, Pure Lanolin, 7 fl oz (207 ml) - iHerb.com
Same outlet
I drop 4 -500 cases on a towel (Use the same towel each time) in a single layer just as they fall.
Then I gave them 2-3 good spritzers with the case lube (Dillon or Serious Shooters version) and then give them a quick roll around on the towel then wait about 3 minutes before loading.
Works a treat.
I use a fluffy cotton hand towel which over time takes on some of the lube. Its easy to pick up the 4 corners and pour the cases into a container after putting the lube on.
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Originally Posted by 6x47
That's a cream.
It needs to be the liquid.
You could also use the stuff in the tub which is available from repco and is pure lanolin.
Super cheap also has bulk packs of 4lt lanox available
You could try it but its not pure lanolin so I am picking it wont mix correctly with the isopropyl.Quote:
Originally Posted by omark
The Serious shooters version works well but you have to shake the hell out of it to re mix it every time. They did not use pure liquid lanolin, just something that was close to it, NZ sourced.
There are heaps of you tube videos on making it.
Love my reloading so I like playing around with stuff like this.
From what I have seen the lanolin does seperate from the acohol but you just shake the shit out of it and it mixes together again or you can warm it and it does the same.
I use it for resizing and you donr need a shit load
Equal amounts of anhydrous lanolin and vaseline.
Is there a short age of imperial sizing wax?
I use white needle oil, cases on a cloth a couple of sprays from a bottle and tumble the cases in the cloth use another clean cloth to "dry" them up after sizing. Takes a few seconds to lube a couple of hundred. Graphite probably one in 30-50 necks or if it starts to feel sticky.
I am just neck sizing and brought some graphite in a little container with some media. You supposedly just dip the necks in and away you go, but I find it doesn't do the job and they are that stiff that I am bending the rims removing them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marty Henry
Graphite for inside the case necks applied with a cotton bud, lube for the outsideQuote:
Originally Posted by Kudu
I use 5W30 full synthetic engine oil on the 223 cases and carbon powder on the other cals I load.
I used some IPA mixed with Lee cases lube.
Don't know if it's particularly good, but my 223 cases don't get stuck, but 223 doesn't take much force to resize.
Neatsfoot oil. A tiny bit goes a long way. I have not added any to my pad for almost a year and cases still need oil wiped off after sizing.
Will try it in my progressive press when I bulk bomb up some 5.56 loads in the next few days.
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so , ... is there pure lanolin oil? or is it all a cream , ? which would have emulsivefiers (sp?) tp thicken it
I'll have to confess to getting some amusement out of all the threads on home-made case lubes and barrel cleaners I have seen on sundry discussion forums over the last couple of decades or so.
They must be two of the cheapest items to buy that all shooters and reloaders need. Is making your own REALLY worth the trouble?
It is when its hard to get here at times.
Yes you are probably right. I asked the original question as in the original video I watch the guy said the ISP was only a few bucks and the lanolin a couple of bucks, but it made a whole lot of lube. But after researching the prices here in NZ it does not seem worth it.Quote:
Originally Posted by redrover
I use Lanolin Anhydrous BP grade -250ml- Cheapest on TM | Trade Me
and grab a 200ml of isopropyl from local signwriter, add 1/4 a jar of the lanolin and throw it in the ultrasonic for an hour, all mixes up, havent' had any of the crud settle out.
Lay all the cases out an spray them with a trigger bottle, much quicker and cheaper than using lee case lube and don't get any stuck cases now, but i'm far from an expert
Plastic bag. Couple or three squirts for 2-300 shells, then rattle them around and tip into hooper
I got 4 litres of isoprop .... if I find cheap as lanolin , then the cost is very cheap, and last a long time im guessing
I learned the hard way about what can happen with home-made and/or ‘substitute’ case lubes when I first started reloading, close on fifty years ago. I bought a Lyman Spartan press (a C frame job) and a set of Lyman 270 dies, and used lanolin for lube, as recommended by various books, and supposed experts.
My 270 has a fairly loose chamber, and full length sizing cases for it took a LOT of effort! In my ignorance, I thought this was normal. The annoying thing was that after sizing, anything up to half the cases were still a bit hard to chamber. The ‘expert’ advice I received was to screw the die in a bit further. I did this, and after a few reloads, some of the cases started showing incipient head separations. Not good. So I had to re-set the die back to its original position, always try chambering all the sized cases, put aside those that were still sticky, and run them through the die once or twice more, which usually cured them.
Eventually, I got fed up with all this rigmarole, and thinking that the main cause of my troubles was that the press lacked leverage, I bought an RCBS Rockchucker. It came with a bottle of RCBS case lube, and using this (and the old die in the Rockchucker press) F L sizing 270 cases was almost effortless. Later, out of curiosity, I tried using the same F L die in the Spartan press again, but using the RCBS lube. That turned out to WAY easier than with using lanolin for lube, and I got more consistent sizing, too.
Since then, I have only used either RCBS lube or Imperial Die Wax for F L sizing lube, and I have no intention of ever using home-made concoctions again, except as a desperation measure. (and that situation has never arisen) The lanolin was OK for neck sizing lube, though.
I guess it depends on the lube you are using and your setup / equipment.
I have loaded a thousand .223, six hundred .38 super comp, two hundred 308 and four hundred 300 blackout (more to come) so far this week with not a single issue.
I load in bulk once a month normally so applying lube by any other method than by spray takes too long. Liquid lanolin and 100% isopropyl alcohol mixed at 1:10 works well for me.
With the volume I use, I find it cheaper to make myself and works as well as anything else I have tried over the years.
No stuck cases and no dimpled shell necks since I have been using it.