Best way to Remove old Sticky Bullet Lube
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boiling will get it off
Place them on a cookie sheet covered with paper towels in a warm oven. I use 200 degrees f. The lube will melt and be absorbed by the paper towels.
ADK Bigfoot
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I'd just push em down the pipe the way they are.
forty_caliber
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Melt them down and cast new ones. 
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Or you can send them to me and I will shoot the lube off of them.
ADK Bigfoot
ADK Bigfoot
Maybe relube over them, if you are just trying to get rid of the stickyness.
Long as they don't have dirt or other stuff on them just shoot them. It don't take a lot of lube to work.
Alcohol???? Maybe...let them soak 30 mins or so and wipe off wax..... hopefully!
Maybe soak in mineral spirits or lacquer thinner. Gasoline probably work also. Those look like the old buffalo ball ets.
Just saying, for all these kinds of jobs including cosmoline, i put the parts into a fry pan with water and them them simmer 5-6min. Not only will apologizing to your wife do no good at all, the apology might be the last words ever spoken to her so learn stealth or dont do it.
Get your own fry pan at the resell-it shop so you will leave the cooking pans alone. You might still get some adverse feed back from the home front, but al least the cookware was unharmed.
Ok i meant it as a half-joke and the point was that regardless of the pan used, no wife would freely allow cooking of parts in her kitchen, stove or oven. There will be words--- even if she was the one who did it! Sure, fine, get a dedicated parts pot at a thrift store but still stay low about it. That said, I did use my moms soup pot to boil out a carburetor when I was a teen and lucky for me it did scrub up fine and nobody knew.
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I've been using Lyman Blackpowder Gold lube for home cast maxiballs. It was designed for blackpowder cartridge loading, but is working well for me muzzleloading. I melt it in a pan of standing bullets and use a tightish fitting short tube to cut out the individual bullets after the lube has cooled in the refrigerator. I have also just rubbed it on with my fingers if just shooting a few. The only drawback is the high cost, and the maxiballs seem to use quite a lot of lube. I might look into some home made lubes to keep the cost down.
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Auto supply stores sell Gum Cutter in spray cans. It is a multi-effective spray that cuts thru all manner of gunk. (Use with good ventilation!) Even removes whiskey bottle labels; spray, let sit, spray, carefully peel off label. I bet it'd clean up these bullets in a jiffy.
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