Lube

[Cemetery]

Is there a good bp friendly lube or grease that one can use on a cap and ball gun when it's in the upper 80's, without it turning to pure liquid?

[Dick Dastardly]

Pearl Lube II has a melt temperature of around 170°F but handles well at warm temperatures.  It makes a good over ball smear even though it was meant to be used as a bullet lube for Big Lube®LLC bullets.

DD-DLoS

[Springfield Slim]

6 parts beeswax, 4 parts paraffin, 2 parts 2-stroke oil. Melt together on moderate heat. When cooled shape into little balls and push on top of balls in C&B gun. You can store a whole matches worth in an old plastic bullet container, the yellow ones from Speer.

[Sgt.Jake]

  I use Pearl Lube on my arbors,works perfect .     Adios  Sgt. Jake

[Lucky R. K.]

I use 60% beeswax, 30% firm Crisco, and 10% canola oil melted in a double boiler.  I have read that peterolium products and black powder do not mix well.

Lucky

[Springfield Slim]

I have read that too. I have been using different types of paraffin for a couple of years now with no problems at all. Use it in my bullet lube also.

[Noz]

I've started using pearl lube on the arbors of my 1860s with very good results. Arbors are cleaner at cleaning time than with any other lube I have tried.
I don't use over ball lube.

[Cuts Crooked]

Regarding petroleum products and parrafin....what we know as paraffin in the states is highly refined for use in home canning. The nasty esthers and keotones are removed from it so it is suitable for "human consumption" Having been been so highly refined, it's more than suitable for use in BP lube formulas...as long as it is mixed with "wet" lube that keeps things soft. It's good stuff, but by itself it won't lube squat!

(seems that I recall that in other parts of the world the word "paraffin" is what we call "kerosene" in the states. )

[Smokin Gun]

Here's what I use in my Lube pills/bullet lube recipe...

Dang I'm broke Lube Pills

What I did was start out with:
Parafin comes in a brick divided to to 4 like a stick a butter, I used a stick.
Then 1/4 of a Bolwax Toilet Seal Ring(Beeswax)substitute or beeswax or use with the parafin.
Then 8-10 Tablespoons of Olive Oil/soy oil
The Olive oil is the Lube the Waxes just carry it and keep the pill as
you want it.(consistacey/hard or soft...climate time of year)
And that made alot about 600 pills...about 1/8" thick for the most part.
Place the lube mixture in a small saucepan, place the small saucepan in a larger pan with water
boilin' the water and sorta poach the lube mix to a liquid.
level stiff heated pizza pan(or 7-9" heavy pie pan)is the best thing to pour your mix into...
so mix cools evenly(flat) .Place in fridge when it's set stiff(optional)
And worked good for me...you need to try your best guess and add/subract as you like them
for your use.


Punch out to the caliber of your choice, with a tube. Place lube pill over powder with ball
on top. You'll shoot all day without binding. Keeps cylinder lubed fouling soft and barrel
relatively clean.

It works.

SG