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Lube Removal - Kevin Alexander - 04-03-2016
What is the best way to remove old dried up lube from the groves of a BPCR cast bullet?
RE: Lube Removal - Don McDowell - 04-03-2016
Trot down to the local cheap department store and get a cheap sauce pan. Then use that pan to boil the lube off of them. When the water cools you can pull the lube cake off the top of the water, and let the bullets dry.
RE: Lube Removal - Nuclearcricket - 04-03-2016
Dons suggestion is probably the best. DO NOT use any of swmbo's pots or pans, that would just not be good for your heath and well being.
The alternative is to put them in your led pot as its warming up and it will work to flux your alloy but it will make a mess, no getting around that. I have done that and doubt I will do it again unless it is just one or 2 bullets. Hot water is absolutely the best way to go. One other choice would be to stand them up in a pan or skillet or even an aluminum throw away pie pan from a pie you got at the grocery store and heat them with a low temp hot plate and just let the lube melt off. Just make sure that the pie pan doesn't have any holes in it or you will end up with a mess.
Sam
RE: Lube Removal - Old Jim - 04-03-2016
Don,
after boiling the lube from the bullets, could the recovered lube be used to lube other bullets, assuming all the lube is the same formulation?
Old (still inquiring mind) Jim
RE: Lube Removal - Don McDowell - 04-03-2016
Jim no I save it back for "lube cookie: course I don't use those much and I have a ziplock bag full of different thickness and the like.