ssdave wrote on Jun 25^th, 2013 at 11:52pm:


I don't have but the $3 hot plate so I use a larger container to buffer the temperature, but I LIKE the idea of a lab-quality hot plate.

Good ideas on sequencing and storage - part of my dislike of tumble lubing is the damage by tumbling.

By putting onto the aluminum sheet you can squeeze most of the lube off the bottom by how you put it down, and it STICKS.  I even turned the 350 gr bullets in the pan upside down.

joeb33050 wrote on Jun 26^th, 2013 at 5:05am:


The bullets actually have a VERY small (in depth) 'ripout'.  It just LOOKS much worse in the pictures because of them being filled with lube contrasting in color.

Variation in weight for the 350 gr bullets is still under +/- 1 grain.

G'day,
         I use a similar system to SS DAVE , have found the best twessers are jewellers , they open when you squeeze them and lock on to the bullet real good, I melt the lube in the Microwave, use a small ramekin with a built in handle, I use Emmerets, or White Lighting, both work well with this method , I found an artists pallet knife works a treat to remove the excess lube from the bullet base as well as the excess from the wax paper. I made a slip fit case up like a push breach seater cleans off the  excess lube a treat. Justs my two bobs worth.

   Kind Regards Mal. in Aus.

Oooooo.  I've got a little grabber like that!  (for pointey bullets)

Wonder where you can get one?

Mal wrote on Jun 26^th, 2013 at 7:25am:


Mal - 

Thanks!  (New word of the day.)

▸ noun:  a small fireproof dish used for baking and serving individual portions
▸ noun:  a cheese dish made with bread and egg crumbs that is baked and served in individual fireproof dishes

SchwarzStock wrote on Jun 26^th, 2013 at 1:01pm:


Pan/dip method allows one to use a minimal 'sizing' with a push-through.  But even if one sizes more than that with push through there is less mnipulaiton of the bullet - pushing it through (one direction only) vs in a sizer (which sometimes I like to clean up some bulllts).

With John on this one, hard to imagine anything better than pan lube. I hand lube Minne balls, since it's a different lube and I don't do many, is a real mess.

Goes like this

Dedicated small frying pan with a close fitting lid. Leave the lube in it all the time, store in the shops old refrigerator. Probably 40 degrees

Ready to lube pull the pan out and heat lube to liquid with a heat gun. Set 50 bullets on bases (my pan is a small one) Knock one over pick it up with a pair of forceps, hot lube runs right off down to fluid level. You could use a double  boiler however no hot plate in the shop heat gun is safe and right at hand. I clamp the handle in a wood cabinet makers clamp don't stand there and hold it

Lid on let it cool.  Depending on ambient temperature may put the solidified pan back in the Fridge to cool it down faster. Lid keeps bugs and trash out of the mix, should I get a flash fire best way to extinguish is put a lid on.

Pop the cake out, built in draft of the frying pan makes it drop easy, push bullets out with my thumb. If the unlubed bullets went into the pan when lube was nice and hot they sat flat on the pans bottom and bases don't need to be wiped.  Nothing to wipe off the noses either if I ran the melted lube level right. You can raise the level by adding a small pig of lead or add more lube. Too high fewer bullets.

Melt cool down and pop out cycle may be a hour or so only  a few minutes actually doing something. Make lubing a shop job done while performing other task. Couple of hundred takes 4 cycles. Could cut it in half with a larger pan, way I lube while doing other jobs no need to increase production

Boats

John -  NEAT technique for keeping them in sequence!