Hammerdown77
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One thing I kinda stumbled upon after experimenting with the pan lubing process yesterday evening:
If the bullets are in the pan with the lube, and come up to temperature WITH the lube (i.e. they are hot), the lube tends to cling to the lube groove better when you punch the bullets out of the lube cookie.
I found this out when I tried putting the bullets in the pan of melted lube one at a time by hand, and leaving them in the melted lube on the boiler for a while. Previously I was pouring the melted lube over the cool bullets in a separate pan.
This is the same effect you get when you plug a fresh batch of bullets in the holes of the first lube cookie, and stick the whole pan back in the oven to melt the cookie back down. The bullets heat up with the lube and are at the same temp when they start the cooling process.
If the bullets are in the pan with the lube, and come up to temperature WITH the lube (i.e. they are hot), the lube tends to cling to the lube groove better when you punch the bullets out of the lube cookie.
I found this out when I tried putting the bullets in the pan of melted lube one at a time by hand, and leaving them in the melted lube on the boiler for a while. Previously I was pouring the melted lube over the cool bullets in a separate pan.
This is the same effect you get when you plug a fresh batch of bullets in the holes of the first lube cookie, and stick the whole pan back in the oven to melt the cookie back down. The bullets heat up with the lube and are at the same temp when they start the cooling process.
