I've used Dillon's lube for years and my favorite lube. At $9.00 or so per 8 oz. bottle I wanted to try homemade. I tried 1 to 8 oz or 2 oz of liquid lanolin to 16 oz. of 99% isopropyl alcohol and for me it's too greasy and more lanolin than Dillon lube. One to 12 ratio is close to Dillon and maybe just a little more lanolin. Couple 16 ounce bottles of 99% alcohol and a 4 ounce bottle of liquid lanolin will last me years. Like mentioned a good spray bottle is needed. I still spray a couple shots on my lube pad and roll cases on the pad.
Home made Lanolin based case lubes
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The only wire pulling lube I'm familiar with is water soluble (thank you City of LA, Dept of Water and Power 
. Each Electrician's "trouble truck" had a 5 gal. pail on board). It is white and I couldn't tell any difference from Lee's case lube...
. Each Electrician's "trouble truck" had a 5 gal. pail on board). It is white and I couldn't tell any difference from Lee's case lube...I have both Lee and lanolin 10:1 with 99.9% Iso (MG electronics cleaner from Amazon) and I find that the Lee lube works well for pistol, but in a sprayer it just doesn't get in the case mouth well enough for rifle reloading. Therefore I use the 10:1 lanolin lube and a gallon ziplock and I can lube 100s of cases (esp 223 cases) at a time easily.
The lee lube is more of a wax and lanolin is more of a film and it comes off easier as well. Guess there's a reason why those ingredients are exactly what is in a bottle of Dillon lube.
And Lanolin is just great for softening up those hands after a long day of pulling the handle
Also, CVS pharmacy and Walgreens will have a 91% sprayer of alcohol for first aid use with exactly 10oz of alcohol. You can either use it and add 1oz of lube, or dump it for the 99.9% stuff.
The lee lube is more of a wax and lanolin is more of a film and it comes off easier as well. Guess there's a reason why those ingredients are exactly what is in a bottle of Dillon lube.
And Lanolin is just great for softening up those hands after a long day of pulling the handle
Also, CVS pharmacy and Walgreens will have a 91% sprayer of alcohol for first aid use with exactly 10oz of alcohol. You can either use it and add 1oz of lube, or dump it for the 99.9% stuff.
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