PAN LUBING ?

[Buffalow Red]

i need to lube some cast bollets for bp with home made lube. my wife wont allow this in kitchen . can i put bullets in baking pan & pour melted lube in & wait for it to cool ?
do you realy need to heat up the lead with the oven, it seems the hot lube poured over outside temp (now 100 deg) bollets would work
any one tryed thisway

[River City John]

Put the pan in a closed car in the sun. They'll heat up nicely.

[yul b. nekst]

Here's what I used to do: Buy several pie pans. They're small and won't use up all your lube like a big pan will do. It's also easier to handle the hardened cakes. Melt the lube your favorite way-double boiler recommended, but I've simply heated mine in a used thrift shop saucepan on LOW heat. Be careful if you directly heat lube this way. Beeswax, etc, is extremely flammable and you do not want to heat the lube to a point where it begins to smoke. If it does, you are dangerously close to having flambe' a la lube!  Line your bullets up in the pan(s) allowing for space between bullets for lube to flow. Make sure pans are on a level surface. Pour in melted lube up to slighty higher than the top lube rings. Let cool, experimenting, to a point that allows the bullet cake to be removed from the pan without breaking. Using your thumb, push out each bullet nose first. By experimenting, you'll be able to tell what temp to do this. Too warm and mushy, and the cake will fall apart. Too cold, and the cake will also break apart reducing the number of lubed bullets, which will have to be relubed. The bullets heat up sufficiently from the hot lube, which in turn helps the lube to stick in the lube grooves. The oven method works by now putting bullets into all the holes left from the previous bullets and placing the pans in an oven, or hot summer sun car. The lube will remelt and fill the lube grooves once again. By adding a small amount of lube, you will keep the lube above the grooves. Also, as per original question, buy yourself an electric hotplate. They're cheap, and will allow you to melt lube anywhere there's an electrical outlet! Clean kitchen=happy honey!

[Buffalow Red]

THANKS I HAVE TURKEY FRYER BURNER TO HEAT LUBE with,  just donot have a oven to heat bullets & i didnt realize the temp of cake was important before pushing out
thanks

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Ever try "finger lubing?  It works well for me, even in front of the moving picture box.  Just get a stick of SPG, or whatever,  Cut off a little pea size lump and spread it on to fill the grooves.  After a few tries you won't be making a mess either.  I just do this for rifle, where I don't want to size the bullet.

[Sunwapta Haze]

I have used an old toaster oven in the garage to pan lube bullets.  Production rates are slower than the kitchen oven but it will get the job done if it is your only option.  You can probably find one at a garage/yard sale at a reasonable price. 

[Pitspitr]

If you can find an old electric skillet at a thrift store you can use it to heat the bullets and melt the lube both.