While ordering a few things from October Country today, owner John reiterated that RMC had bought the rights to the Oxyoke name, and to his surprise, some product has already begun shipping now, not at the end of the year which was apparently first understood to be the plan...
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Oxyoke was the manufacturer of precut/prelubed plain cotton and pillow ticking patches regardless of who's name was on the package...I guess you mean your're buying the pillow ticking material, then cutting/lubing your own patches now
RB, yes. I'd used Oxyoke lubed in .01...got some ticking at a local fabric shop that miked at .017, and it has worked well in my CVA re-worked Mtn Rifle with a .440 ball..I tried it next in a Lyman .50 flinter, and it was a hard start...do-able but harder than the CVA...I've just picked up some ticking from (?) Hanckock Fabric, and it mikes at .015, and some other stuff, same source that is .007...I suspect it is just a printed ticking pattern, as it is only on 1 side...I probably won't use it...I'm cutting at the muzzle..make strips heavily lubed ....works well..Hank
Oxyoke had a good product & was an Easy way for lots of guys......... but too expensive for my blood. If I run across a good buy on them I will get them simply because they were precut, but normally I cut my own. You can buy your own material in the bolt & a rotary cutter & you will never look back........
I cut some patches yesterday & cut over 10,000 in about 30 minutes. That was cutting 3 different sizes, getting out the cutter & cutting boards & materials & all of it & putting it back. Takes longer to set up than to cut them.....
If you were cutting strips of 1" wide material, you could cut 94 strips in one set up & be done in about 5 min. as I can cut 4 layers at a time & my board is 23" x 23". Some material I can cut 8 layers at a time, just depends on the material & blade sharpness.
If you are buying 1" patches, lets say you pay ? $ 3.25 for a hundred. Plus you have to ship them. (So with shipping about $4.) For a yard of material that cost $4.07 including tax you can get 529 1" patches from it. So you get over 5 times as many for the same money plus no shipping & it takes you about 30 min to cut 10,000 patches. Now this is taking into consideration you shoot using strips or square cut patches. I have shot square cut patches for over 30 years & can not see a bit of dif. in shooting a square one to a round one.........
You can spend an hour cutting patches this way & you will have enough patches of all necessary sizes to last you for the next 5 years !
It is a lil expensive up front for one guy to buy it all & it takes several years to break even, but if three guys go together & buy a cutter, board & guide, the first time you all cut about 10,000 patches each you will pay for the entire set up.
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I cut some patches yesterday & cut over 10,000 in about 30 minutes. That was cutting 3 different sizes, getting out the cutter & cutting boards & materials & all of it & putting it back. Takes longer to set up than to cut them.....
If you were cutting strips of 1" wide material, you could cut 94 strips in one set up & be done in about 5 min. as I can cut 4 layers at a time & my board is 23" x 23". Some material I can cut 8 layers at a time, just depends on the material & blade sharpness.
If you are buying 1" patches, lets say you pay ? $ 3.25 for a hundred. Plus you have to ship them. (So with shipping about $4.) For a yard of material that cost $4.07 including tax you can get 529 1" patches from it. So you get over 5 times as many for the same money plus no shipping & it takes you about 30 min to cut 10,000 patches. Now this is taking into consideration you shoot using strips or square cut patches. I have shot square cut patches for over 30 years & can not see a bit of dif. in shooting a square one to a round one.........
You can spend an hour cutting patches this way & you will have enough patches of all necessary sizes to last you for the next 5 years !
It is a lil expensive up front for one guy to buy it all & it takes several years to break even, but if three guys go together & buy a cutter, board & guide, the first time you all cut about 10,000 patches each you will pay for the entire set up.
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Go to Walmart,JoAnns etc and get a rotary cutter($15 or less) and a self healing cutting board ($ depends on size).I use these to cut all my patches for cleaning all my guns. It is quick and easy to make a Lot of patches.I hope this helps.
Here is what he is talking about,This one is at Joanns. I picked mine up at Wal-mart for about yhe same price.>Rotory cutter at Joanns<
Lehigh...
No, they are good for cutting straight lines. There are like a round razor blade in a handle.
My better half is an extroadinary quilter...been at it for years...has all this stuff laid out on utility tables...rotary cutters, mats, straight edges, etc.....came home from the range one day and she had about 1000 2"x2" flannel cleaning patches stacked up for me.
I just noticed this weekend a new pile of stuff she has assembled for her next quilt for a king size[url] bed...in[/url] the stack of materials is a huge layer of dense, 1/4" thick, 100% cotten batting, almost like the material oxyoke wads are made from.
I know she'll have 10-20 feet of 2-3 inch wide strips left over...thinking of experimenting with it to make some "square wonder-wads" to use during the dry winter months at the range...soak them with Hoppes No9 PLUS BP solvent...or nuke them with Natural Lube 1000, etc.
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Dave, my wife is a seamstress for a living. She has the rotary cutters, mat, plastic straight edge, and everything else. I just get the fbric i need or have her pick it up, and i do the cutting. You can turn out a lot of strips of patching, or pre-cut square shooting as well as cleaning patches in short order with them. :front:
Not meaning to cut in here but there is another way to cut patches..and it doesn't cost near what a mat and rotary cutter will run you. Only drawback is it takes a little more time but still worth it imo. I use a steel straightedge, a exacto knife with one of those triangular shaped blades and a piece of particle board. I guess one could mark the board as in a mat...but I simply measure the width I want, mark it on the cloth in two places, connect the dots with the striaght edge and run the knife over it. Yeah, it does take longer than with a rotary cutter..but it is a lot cheaper than buying precut patches.
As far as that goes, you can cut the patches with scissors, but it takes a lot longer.
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I use hole saws that you can pick up at Ace or any other hardware store. I grind off the teeth and put an edge on it. I use a 1 1/4 inch for .32 up to about .40 and an 1 3/8 inch for up to .58. I chuck it up in the drill press and use a piece of scrap 2x4 or 2x2 to cut against. You can easily cut up to 4 layers at a time and really churn out the patches. The method doesn't work unless you have a drill press. I haven't tried it with a hand drill.
For cleaning patches I just use whatever flannel I can find on sale and whack them up with a pair of scissors.
For cleaning patches I just use whatever flannel I can find on sale and whack them up with a pair of scissors.
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I use long strips of patching that I pre-lube and usually cut at the muzzle.
To make my strips, I mark the width I want my strips to be in several places along one selvage edge of the fabric, snip on the mark past the selvage, and just tear the material. It tears straight with the grain and doesn't unravel as much as cut strips do.
The first piece off a just purchased piece of material will be odd shaped but can be marked, torn into short strips, and used just as well as the long strips. Once I get to the point that the strips tear the full width of the material, every strip will be the same length as the material is wide provided I start from the same corner each time.
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To make my strips, I mark the width I want my strips to be in several places along one selvage edge of the fabric, snip on the mark past the selvage, and just tear the material. It tears straight with the grain and doesn't unravel as much as cut strips do.
The first piece off a just purchased piece of material will be odd shaped but can be marked, torn into short strips, and used just as well as the long strips. Once I get to the point that the strips tear the full width of the material, every strip will be the same length as the material is wide provided I start from the same corner each time.
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Birddog6. Appears you have used up your private message allowance so we cant talk about oxyoke lube any more. JM :redthumb:
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I do the same as richard does , very little cost then lube the stuff in my favorite lube and don't cost me much at all just the cost of yardage and time with a knife or scisors to snip the ends. BB75
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