Homemade bullet lube w/o beeswax?

[zxcvbob]

Has anyone come up with a good recipe for a cast bullet lube appropriate for magnum pistol loads that does not use beeswax?

I'm thinking of trying toilet seal wax plus calcium stearate. Calcium stearate is a non-water-soluble soap, and a pretty good lubricant. I think it might be the main ingredient in Alox. Hopefully it will take some (but not all) of the stickiness out of the toilet wax, and raise the melting point (technically, it's called the "dropping point") That's my theory anyway... It may take me a month or so to get around to testing it...

 

[HM2PAC]

I will be very interested in how this works out. Keep us posted.

 

[Lloyd Smale]

Ive fooled with many homemade recipes and make all my own now but have to say that the base to all the really good ones was beeswax. Bees just seem to make it better then man. I guess thats what god intented.

 

[hotwheelz]

I have a freind who will only use creamy peanut butter for lube. It smells funny but it works. Just dont leave them lying around the barn the mice will eat all the "lube" off you bullets Trust me

 

[Bad Flynch]

First off, why no beeswax? It is especially confusing because you seem to replace it with toilet bowl wax rings, which often contain beeswax.

However, be that as it may, you could use soy wax or a carnaube wax mix. There are lots of sythetic waxes available, too, and don't forget the the old Ozocerite. Ozocerite, a mineral wax, was use in bullet lubes in the past and is still listed sometimes simply as "mineral wax."

Carnaube is a little stiff, usually, if used by itself. However, it could stiffen up a soy wax mix if it were too soft. You could use Crisco and carnauba mixed, I guess.

 

[zxcvbob]

1) Beeswax is expensive.
2) Bee populations have plummeted the past 2 years, with varoa mites, "Gaucho" systemic insecticide use, and this new Colony Collapse Syndrome (which they've just figured out might be a Middle Eastern virus.)

It takes a *lot* of honey to produce a pound of wax; I'd just as soon leave it to the bees if I can find something else to use.