Hey Xcgates,
Yes, I do on occasion have folks tell me my use of gasolene for a cleaning solvent is dangerous, and some have seemed to be certain I am lucky to be alive. Now I don't suggest that gasolene is not a dangerous product, but I would also submit that knives, battery acid, rat poison, gun powder, lighter fluid, and many other products are also dangerous if they are not used in a safe manner. I can tell you that my use of gasolene as a cleaning solvent was learned from my father and his father. Any time some piece of dirty, greasy machinery was torn apart for fixing, we cleaned the parts in gasolene with the use of a stiff bristle brush. Now I am not suggesting anyone use a tub of gasolene to clean things. I use a can about the size of a 3 pound coffee can, half full of gas, and slosh the loaded rounds in the gasolene for a few seconds and then wipe them off on a towel. No sparking tools involved.
I never used any cooking spray to lube cases. It might be fine, but I still haven't finished a case of RCBS lube I purchased maybe 35 years ago. I still have about three or four cans of the regular spray stuff, but like I said before, I am more comfortable with the old lube and pad method.
Hey Wobbly,
I find it interesting that you prefer an ink pad over the RCBS lube pad. When I first started reloading, I did not want to pay for one of the expensive RCBS or other brand lube pads. Instead, I bought a new cloth covered ink pad and used it for maybe ten years until I finally spent the money for an RCBS Lube Pad. When I got that RCBS pad, I thought I had finally arrived. The RCBS pad was a fair bit bigger than my ink pad, and I could roll more cases on it than I could on the ink pad. To this day, however, I still have the ink pad sitting around.
Best wishes,
Dave Wile