Interesting article.  I wish you published this about a half century earlier. Then my teachers would have believed me when I said that my pencils ate my homework.

Isn't graphite a preferable alternative to grease in desert environments to prevent sand buildup?

And I just started using this stuff . . . "graphite based"

And I just started using this stuff . . . "graphite based"

I tried it recently but didn't like it because it was making too much of a mess with the dies.

I tried it recently but didn't like it because it was making too much of a mess with the dies.

Did you use it with the application media?

I dipped the necks only into the graphite media. I bought both the graphite and Imperial Sizing Die Wax to compare (not together of course). I liked the Imperial (no dented necks) but might retry the graphite again sometime.

And I just started using this stuff . . . "graphite based"

loob

I just read smokeless powder contains graphite.

I dipped the necks only into the graphite media. I bought both the graphite and Imperial Sizing Die Wax to compare (not together of course). I liked the Imperial (no dented necks) but might retry the graphite again sometime.

I only use the graphite for neck sizing new cases, I dip every third or fourth case.

loob

Well I wouldn't dip that into the graphite. 

I did a experiment on seating bullets using this stuff. I dip the bullet just a little into graphite with beads. After seating, runout was greatly reduced to not more then thousandths to hardly any. Seating without gave me runout to sometimes up to 2 thou. Now, I’ve been seating bullets using a chambered die plus dipping the bullets with graphite. I can barely see the needle move on the Sinclair concentricity tool dial no more.   

Interesting

I have a tube of moly-graphite grease, but I can't remember where I applied it.

I tried it recently but didn't like it because it was making too much of a mess with the dies.

I just use very light imperial wax to resize. Then I seat the bullets using the graphite in media to seat. Though I only dip the bullet before seating.

Hum....    This appears to have been written over 30 years ago, yet graphite lube is still in use, in many many military and commercial applications.    What's up with that?

Graphite powder is common for air-gunners in areas where petroleum based lube tend to detonate.

A good moly-graphite grease would be so nice, to get the pressure lube and no petroleum negatives.  Such as on airgun mainsprings and such.

Interesting

I have a tube of moly-graphite grease, but I can't remember where I applied it.

You apply it to the same areas that you apply Astro Glide to. 

I use moly-graphite grease in certain applications such as triggers and my reloading tools that require grease over oil. But for lubricating my guns I have been using Break Free CLP for over 25 years and I have been quite happy with the results.

I remember when Military Arms Channel said carbon acts as a lube

I remember when Military Arms Channel said carbon acts as a lube

Well, graphite is one form carbon exists as, but so is diamond.   Choose your lubes carefully. 

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