Looking for a good way to bulk lube patches

[bwhoffman]

I would like to try and bulk lube my own patches and save some $$$'s.
Do any of you have a good method to do this?
will be working with 50 cal stuff and really like bore butter but am open to all methods and recipes.

Thanks,
Brett sr

 

[roundball]

I would like to try and bulk lube my own patches and save some $$$'s.
Do any of you have a good method to do this?
will be working with 50 cal stuff and really like bore butter but am open to all methods and recipes.
Thanks,
Brett sr

I've put them in ziploc bags with a couple squeezes of natural lube 1000 on them, run them through several short bursts in the microwave...something like half power for 30 seconds...wait 30 seconds, repeat, repeat, etc.

Be careful not to get the heat too high and for two long or the material will actually begin to get scorched and be stiff when they cool.

 

[Johnny Tremain]

Hmm, never thought of the micro

I use a small pot and some water, heat on LOW.

Then drop in the 1000 lube tube and wait 1-2 minutes. The lube just pours out.

Soak the patches. stack them in a wooden round snuf like box ( you see them at rondys) store in my possibles bag.

The day before I go shooting, I add a few drops of 1000 BORE cleaner to the wooden box.

Next day they are lubed, moist and seperate easy.
Even for the Rain-de-vue in March.
When its not fit for man nor beast to be outside.

 

[bub524]

I rip my ticking into strips then take the lube, my own brew or Bore Butter, and squeeze about and inch onto the end of the strip. I then take a putty knife and spread it out along the strip so its all covered. Thenroll it up and after doing several like this I put them al in the microwave for a few seconds. Works great. I just read another suggestion from a fella that folds his strips into a square the size of the patch he uses then cuts the corners off and is left with a strip of diamond shaped patches that tear off.

Firewalker
TMA 137

 

[Swampman]

I string mine in a stack with a needle and thread. Then I melt my tin of lard/bee's wax/oliveoil lube and dip them in for a few seconds. I leave the thread thru them and just peel them off as needed. Nearly free and works like a champ.

 

[Stumpkiller]

I take two yards of cotton ticking and tear it into 1-1/2" x 6 foot strips (MUCH faster than cutting it). I then pour moose milk of my own brew into a deep pan. I soak a strip well, and lay it out flat on wax paper to dry overnight. Then, I repeat the soak and dry. Between sloshings and to mix I store the lube in empty 2 liter soda bottles.

I roll or fold these strips and carry a rolled one in my hunting pouch in a waxed buckskin bag. Each strip is good for about 50 patchings either cut at the muzzle or pre-loaded into ball blocks. The rest of the strips I store in Zip-loc bags until needed.

Do a search on +moose +milk for the recipe.

 

[ssettle]

I usually melt my lube in the microwave and dip patches and squeeze out the excess as best as I can. I try to get them as dry as possible. I want the same amount of lube in them. . Steve s.

 

[charcloth]

Hey Brett,

When I'm using em quick I just stick a few of them in my mouth at a time and lube em in bulk that way.

Charcloth

 

[crgabel]

That helps to keep you from slobbering also :rotf:
I've been using coolant from work. If you are working in a machine shop it is the white milkey type that is normally cut with water 20:1. I only cut it 10:1 so more of the oil in the material stays in the patch material.
As most do, I rip ticking into 1" strips soak and lay them out on wax paper.
Next day just roll them up and put inot a plastic bag that I can seal for storage.
Craig

 

[bwhoffman]

so this leads into my next question....
Just how much lube IS needed on a patch under a RB in a 50 with 60 to 70 grains of powder???

 

[sniper68]

I always cut at the muzzle. So I cut ticking about 6 or 7 in strip. Warm my patch lube till is's melted and stir in the ticking. Then I pull it out and lay it on a peice of glass and squeege it as dry as possible with a plastic spatula. Then cut it in about 1 7/8 th wide strips with a roller cutter and roll it up and hold the roll with a hair pin and put in a ziplock bag for the range or in a 35mm slotted film canister for my hunting pouch.. Works better than anything else I've tried so far. When not in use I always store lubed patches in the freezer.

 

[Bob J]

I would like to try and bulk lube my own patches and save some $$$'s.
Do any of you have a good method to do this?
will be working with 50 cal stuff and really like bore butter but am open to all methods and recipes.
Thanks,
Brett sr

I've put them in ziploc bags with a couple squeezes of natural lube 1000 on them, run them through several short bursts in the microwave...something like half power for 30 seconds...wait 30 seconds, repeat, repeat, etc.

Be careful not to get the heat too high and for two long or the material will actually begin to get scorched and be stiff when they cool.

Roundball - I tried your microwave routine yesterday....excellent way of doing it! before i was heating up lube in a saucepan and dipping patches in. It was too easy to over-lube patches and more lube was wasted. The microwave on 20 second "defrost" settings - cool a little and add some more lube - repeat...works great
:thumbsup:

 

[Bolink654]

I used to just lube patches individually with WL1000.

Last time I did it, I put 100 or so in a pellet tin (for the pellet guns), a small dab of WL1000 on top, one on bottom, and one in the middle of the stack.
Then I heated it lightly over a propane torch :youcrazy: Stuck it in the flame a bit, out for a bit, in for a bit, out for a bit. Worked fine. Had a little too much for my liking though, so I stuck them in a C-clamp between 2 peices of wood and cranked down until I had just the right amount.

 

[roundball]

I've put them in ziploc bags with a couple squeezes of natural lube 1000 on them, run them through several short bursts in the microwave...something like half power for 30 seconds...wait 30 seconds, repeat, repeat, etc.

Be careful not to get the heat too high and for two long or the material will actually begin to get scorched and be stiff when they cool.

Roundball - I tried your microwave routine yesterday....excellent way of doing it! before i was heating up lube in a saucepan and dipping patches in. It was too easy to over-lube patches and more lube was wasted. The microwave on 20 second "defrost" settings - cool a little and add some more lube - repeat...works great
:thumbsup:

:thumbsup:

 

[wwfeatherston]

I use the Pedersoli liquid patch lube, dripping it onto a bout 100 cut patches and squeezeing them until they are soaked, then I squeeze the excess back into the bottle (a five dollar bottle does a couple of thousand patches)

I store them in old percussion cap tins.