Dried Bore Butter/Lube

[OldMaineWoodsman]

Hello: anyone know what to use to remove old, dried up lube from Buffalo Bullets, or can I just toss them in the melting pot and skim off?

Thanks,

 

[BrownBear]

Won't be any "skimming" if you drop them in the melting pot, but you'll sure get a lot of smoking!

Call it flux and be happy. :grin:

Had some BB around that I wasn't using, so over time I used it up as flux. Worked just fine.

 

[necchi]

Call it flux and be happy. :grin:

Had some BB around that I wasn't using, so over time I used it up as flux. Worked just fine.

That stuff makes great flux! And I found dropping a Buffalo Ballett in to the melting pot to be the best use for them.

 

[kh0456]

Won't be any "skimming" if you drop them in the melting pot, but you'll sure get a lot of smoking!

This is so true!! :grin: I had a lot of sized and lubed bullets I cast many years ago for a caliber I no longer have. They also had gas checks on them. I threw them in the pot... they smoked like crazy. I only had to skim the floating gas checks off the top and all was good.

 

[nit wit]

stiff bristle brush will work.
NW

 

[hawkeye2]

Put them in an old sauce pan full of water and boil them. The lube floats to the top. You can add a little dish detergent to the water if you wish. They come out looking bad but it doesn't hurt them. Relube and shoot. Don't try removing the lube using something like kerosene, it leaves you with a terrible mess on the bullets to clean up.

 

[cynthialee]

Melt them down. It will flux the lead.
But be sure to go outside with this project as it is going to be very smoky. So much smoke that it might overtake the workshop and bleed into the house, even with a fan blowing exhaust outside. {ask me how I know...} :redface:

 

[robert reed]

Melt them down. It will flux the lead.
But be sure to go outside with this project as it is going to be very smoky. So much smoke that it might overtake the workshop and bleed into the house, even with a fan blowing exhaust outside. {ask me how I know...} :redface:

Guess what I did today! :cursing:

 

[bpd303]

Set off the smoke detectors did ya. :grin: