Clark
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I don't want to share my tin of wax with other reloaders, they might have dirty fingers.
Yes they are and they are inexpensive for what you get.The tins you buy are a lot bigger than that, rajbcpa.
Don
I never thought to try this method before but I did it earlier tonight. I put about 1/2 teaspoon worth in one palm and grabbed a handful of 9mm brass with the other (I don't normally lube handgun brass but this stuff was so clean it was unnecessarily tough to size). 1/2 teaspoon worth is apparently too much for 75 pieces of 9mm. I dropped those into a bowl, grabbed another handful, lubed those 75, and did it a third time. Then I tumbled the bowl around to make sure it spread evenly. I used one of those about every tenth round on my LNL and it ran smooth as silk. Loaded up about 600 rounds and used less than 1/2 of the lubed cases. I still have about 800 more rounds to load up tomorrow. I'll definitely remember this technique next time I load up some .223 as I prefer Unique (or Imperial) to my RCBS Case Slick but it gets tiring lubing every case one at a time with wax. Thanks for the tip!!For small cases like .223 and .30 carbine, I put a little in my palm, rub my hands together to spread it around, then I'll rub handfuls of cases all at once in my hands. This seems to work well for me, I get a very thin film on most all of them. Any that I miss seem to get what they need from the coating on the sizing die.
I use this technique with the Lee toothpaste tube case lube. Works great and wipes off easily with a moist towel. Best of all, some of the lube gets inside the case mouths to make expander ball drag a thing of the past.There's also the lanolin and alcohol mix. Take pure lanolin (the gooey paste-like stuff, looks like grease, you can get it cheap on eBay), 91% isopropyl alcohol, and a spray bottle. Put 12 oz. of the alcohol in the spray bottle, melt 1 oz. of the lanolin and add to the alcohol. Shake it up, spread your cases out on a cookie sheet, and spray them. Or you could put them in a big ziploc, or large plastic tub, etc. and spray them, then spread them out to dry. When the alcohol evaporates, they're ready to go. This is good for lubing large numbers at once.