savagelover
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Any ideas on making a cookie cutter for removel of 357 bullets.? I hear a 35 cal shell casing works good but I don't have one of them. Open for ideas. Thanks,john
Pan lubing bullets question
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Back when I very briefly pan lubed (before I started powder coating everything, and never regretted it) I used a golf club shaft from an old, unused set.
They were tapered shafts so could be cut anywhere along it's length giving you an option for many different diameters and, best of all, free.
They were tapered shafts so could be cut anywhere along it's length giving you an option for many different diameters and, best of all, free.
Bazoo
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When I pan lube, I don’t use a cutter. I lube in round cake pans. When the lube cake is just lukewarm, it’ll pop out of the pan bullets and all. Then you can push on the nose and the bullets pop out of the cake leaving lube in the grooves.
Ritchie
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Brass tubing about 4 inches long, with a slot up the side to allow it to spring a little over the bullet. Bolt a little longer so you can push the bullet out with your thumb. That said, powder coating has a lot of advantages.
bullseye308
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If I wasn’t going to be powder coating bullets, I’d still be tumble lubing them(which I do in 38 & 357), before I’d bother pan lubing them.
jaguarxk120
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Find a 35 Remington case or any 35 caliber rifle case, the larger the better to hold on to.
^This^
Drill put the primer pocket with a 13/64" drill. Use a #10 flathead machine screw that's longer than the case. You can open up the case mouth by slowly working it open with a 23/64" drill shank. As you cookie cutter the bullet, with the flathead screw, you can push it out of the case.
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savagelover
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And just where do I find such a thing.any ideas where to find one. Thanks john
Targa
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I would just pull them out with my fingers when they were cool enough to touch. A little push in any direction to break the tension between the bullet and the lube and they just came right out.
Chuck R.
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Same here.
I use a coated cake pan, appropriate sized ammo box inserts (used like pool ball rack) to space the bullets, then pour the lube on. Once the lube cake cools it drops out from the pan and I just use a heavy leather glove to push the bullets out by the nose onto a soft towel.
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Savagelover, all of the35 Remington case's I have were picked up off the ground
at outdoor ranges.
I do hope you pickup brass, don't you.
at outdoor ranges.
I do hope you pickup brass, don't you.
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savagelover
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I pick up lots of brass at our range. Not really a lot there. As long as you have 35 rem. Brass send me a couple pieces, please. John.
I pan lube a lot and almost every lube I use isn't hard enough to "punch" bullets cleanly out of the cake so I use a "cookie cutter". I have made many cutters from stainless steel tubing (ID reamed for a good fit) but one of my early home made cutters was a .357 Magnum case. I drilled out the flash hole to accept a #10 screw, a bit longer than the case and put a nut on the end to keep it from falling out.. Push the case over a bullet in the cake and punch the bullet out of the case with the screw...
J-Bar
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Being an oddball, I did it differently when lubing bullets with beeswax/Crisco for blackpowder cartridges.
Melt the lube in a small crockpot (sauce pan would work of course if you want to work over a stove). While the lube is still a hot liquid, dip the bottom of the bullet into the lube and then set it aside on a sheet of wax paper to cool. I used surgical forceps to hold the bullet so I wouldn’t burn my fingers. Chill the bullets in a freezer before dipping and the lube hardens immediately. I could dip-lube 400-500 bullets an hour when I got going. Let the unused lube harden in the crockpot/pan for next time. Do not use your wife’s good utensils for this!!
There will be a little excess lube that comes off in your dies. It wasn’t a big deal to clean them.
It worked fine for me for over 20 years of blackpowder cowboy action competition.
Melt the lube in a small crockpot (sauce pan would work of course if you want to work over a stove). While the lube is still a hot liquid, dip the bottom of the bullet into the lube and then set it aside on a sheet of wax paper to cool. I used surgical forceps to hold the bullet so I wouldn’t burn my fingers. Chill the bullets in a freezer before dipping and the lube hardens immediately. I could dip-lube 400-500 bullets an hour when I got going. Let the unused lube harden in the crockpot/pan for next time. Do not use your wife’s good utensils for this!!
There will be a little excess lube that comes off in your dies. It wasn’t a big deal to clean them.
It worked fine for me for over 20 years of blackpowder cowboy action competition.
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I'd almost forgotten about pan lubing, thanks for resurrecting that painful memory.
I dip lube some of my bullets too. I have a Ranch Dog design 265 gr RNFP that I use dip lubing on (use tweezers or forceps). Often 45-45-10 and my "Speed Green". With the 45-45-10 I size first with a harder lube I dip, set on foil, then size. I didn't like brown noses on my boolits from tumbling in alox so I startled dip lubing...
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Yup. Goodwill is your friend for finding little crockpots and small coolers. Sometimes for special guns I buy unsized bullets from GT and dip them in Crisco+Gulf wax. I use a Igloo lunch box with ice to keep bullets chilled. A Lee push through sizer works for cleaning and final sizing. .361, .427, and.455 for.38S&W, 10.5mm German for the Reichs revolver, and .455Webley, respectively. I haven’t had to do that for years. I wonder where those Lee sizers got off to?
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savagelover
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Sounds like an easy to make gadget. I just u
I've got the push thru lee sizers for my 38/357 boo let's..
Catpop
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In the beginning I had a Lee 357 pan lube/sizer set from the 80s. I was ok and it got the job done as I was beginning.
I’ve even done finger lubing with old rifle case cutters.
Later I made custom sizing dies from old 7/8 bolts in my lathe to use with a later model Lee red plastic sizer on my Lyman Spartan c press. That was for .360 boolits for my RBH.
I’ve now graduated to a Lyman 4500 and haven’t looked back.
I’ve even done finger lubing with old rifle case cutters.
Later I made custom sizing dies from old 7/8 bolts in my lathe to use with a later model Lee red plastic sizer on my Lyman Spartan c press. That was for .360 boolits for my RBH.
I’ve now graduated to a Lyman 4500 and haven’t looked back.
I had a Lee pan lube system with one of their cookie cutters to remove the bullets from the tray. It worked pretty well. The cookie cutter would push the bullets through where they exited the top of the cookie cutter when the next bullet or bullets were cut from the cake.
I'm not sure what is available today from Lee but a cutter could be made from brass hobby tubing. Make a "knob" to solder to the top of the tubing for pushing the cutter into the cake. The bullets will be allowed to exit lout of the top of the cutter.
I hope this makes sense.
I'll admit that I have moved on to a lubri-sizer and powder coating bullets and do not pan lube any more.
I'm not sure what is available today from Lee but a cutter could be made from brass hobby tubing. Make a "knob" to solder to the top of the tubing for pushing the cutter into the cake. The bullets will be allowed to exit lout of the top of the cutter.
I hope this makes sense.
I'll admit that I have moved on to a lubri-sizer and powder coating bullets and do not pan lube any more.
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