Thread: Home made Case lube.

Originally Posted by omark

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.
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.

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

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.

Originally Posted by Kudu

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.

Graphite for inside the case necks applied with a cotton bud, lube for the outside

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.

Originally Posted by redrover

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?

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.

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