First try at homemade lube

First try at homemade lube

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what's in that HEET stuff?
No pork adobo? What if you encounter some jihadis?

Homemade Hornady case lube

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what's in that HEET stuff?
No pork adobo? What if you encounter some jihadis?

From my experience, offering/giving pork to a Muslim just pisses them off more.  There's no "kryptonite" effect!   

As long as you have a firearm, it won't matter if the ammo is carrying "the other white meat" or not!  Just shoot straight and rapidly!

From my experience, offering/giving pork to a Muslim just pisses them off more.  There's no "kryptonite" effect!   

As long as you have a firearm, it won't matter if the ammo is carrying "the other white meat" or not!  Just shoot straight and rapidly!

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I thought they lose their 72 virgins cuz they not clean any more.
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Straight and rapidly....
Words to live by
DVC!

I've read so much about lanolin and Heet on the internet. Would like to know if anyone actually uses it. I already buy the yellow bottle of Heet from Walmart for my Trangia stove.

I have rcbs and lee. I prefer the rcbs

I've read so much about lanolin and Heet on the internet. Would like to know if anyone actually uses it. I already buy the yellow bottle of Heet from Walmart for my Trangia stove.

I have rcbs and lee. I prefer the rcbs

Red Heet is isopropanol and yellow is methanol.

You could always get the 91% isopropanol at walgreens or longs on sale for the big bottle, cheap.  No need for the heet.   Use it to clean guns too, and double edge razors.

Lanolin and alcohol is what many many case lubes are made of.  The alcohol is a carrier for the lube, you spray it on and the alcohol evaporates leaving a thin layer of lube.

Red Heet is isopropanol and yellow is methanol.

You could always get the 91% isopropanol at walgreens or longs on sale for the big bottle, cheap.  No need for the heet.   Use it to clean guns too, and double edge razors.

Lanolin and alcohol is what many many case lubes are made of.  The alcohol is a carrier for the lube, you spray it on and the alcohol evaporates leaving a thin layer of lube.

does it evaporate all the way?
91% is alcohol, so most of that 9% is water

does it evaporate all the way?
91% is alcohol, so most of that 9% is water

  I'd rather have the water there, than what ever is the balance in Heet. 

The water seems to evaporate away with the alcohol and not leave anything behind.  It is probably distilled water.

I'd rather have the water there, than what ever is the balance in Heet. 

The water seems to evaporate away with the alcohol and not leave anything behind.  It is probably distilled water.

ok, thanks

we'll be trying our homemade "lube" over new year's weekend
at least that's what she said

ok, thanks

we'll be trying our homemade "lube" over new year's weekend
at least that's what she said

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Heet
That's not what it's for.
I'm thinking significant shrinkage.

ok, thanks

we'll be trying our homemade "lube" over new year's weekend
at least that's what she said

Yikes!

Bout 12 to 1 ratio, depends how much slippery u need...

Lanolin and 91 or 99% alcohol

Lanolin is not water soluble, but it is somewhat miscible which is why mixing lanolin with isopropyl alcohol that is less than 100% pure is possible.  Like Macsak mentioned, we use the 99% version because less water generally results in a better end mixture.  That being said, only a few places sell 99% on island and they restrict it to business purchases.  Longs and Target sell 70% and 91% varieties, but we have occasionally seen 93% (at safeway?).  We found the 70% to have way too high a water content and left the brass feeling very wet but not "lube sticky". 

Just our experience so far... it wasn't economical to buy case lube in the quality we go through so we set out to make our own.  We had looked into maybe selling our case lube mixture locally, but the cost of bottles or containers did not make it viable.

Thanks for all your ideas and inputs.  I experimented with some kind of mold release mixed with denatured alcohol, I found that this was too much humbug to use and mix.  I finally got my lanolin through Amazon and mixed it with a fuel additive called HEET that I purchased at Checkers.  Please note that the HEET that that I used is the one  in a red container that's the one with the  isopropyl alcohol and the yellow one comes with methanol alcohol.  I experimented with pouring two ounces of the lanolin in a squirt container  with HEET however I found that there was too much lanolin (too thick)  being used.  I then poured the second container ----- it was ok.  I decided to push it to three containers of HEET and I think it was about right.  Maybe when my squirt bottle reaches a third down, I might even add a little more of the HEET.  Lanolin---better than Lee and Dillon because its cheaper.

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First try at homemade lube

Yep that's the one...GREAT stuff.

Better off with the ones from Napa under the Napa/Mac brand the Heet brand has some kind of injector cleaner in it.

First try at homemade lube

Better off with the ones from Napa under the Napa/Mac brand the Heet brand has some kind of injector cleaner in it.

whoa
thanks for that advice
i would bet that a NAPA brand might be cheaper too

does it evaporate all the way?
91% is alcohol, so most of that 9% is water

It evaporates all the way, leaving behind the lanolin.  If you put a fan on it, it dries inside of a minute. Super easy and quick with a spray bottle. 2 - 3 squirts, a couple of shakes and you're done. I spend more time priming the spay bottle just to get the spray to work than I do lubing the cases. I hate the spray bottles. They always seem to fail.

whoa
thanks for that advice
i would bet that a NAPA brand might be cheaper too

found this at o'reilly
http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/detail/JHN0/2962.oap?ck=Search_isopropyl_-1_-1&keyword=isopropyl#itemDetailTab_
2.79 at the kaneohe one, i bet it's the same at all stores, including checker