Well, I don't know about the ben gay, prep H and the other stuff, but I just spent a very enjoyable snowy afternoon making up some patch lube using Zonie's formula of 70%, 20%, and 10% (without the smellum good) and lubing about 100 .50 caliber patches with same. The wife's at work so I had free access to the kitchen stove. The only problem I had was getting a consistent amount of lube on the patches. After dipping them in the melted lube, I tried laying them between two sheets of newspaper and rolling them with a steel pipe but some were full of lube and some were almost dry. I saw a setup somewhere on the web of a clamp arrangement using blocks of wood and a C-clamp. I'll try to build something like that for the next time. The problem with the newspaper method is that I waste a lot of lube. I know I can buy prelubed patches, but I'm the kind of guy that would rather make something myself rather that pay somebody else to do it for me. I think I would have made a good mountain man from that aspect. Either that or I'm cheap. Another neat idea I got from the web (maybe even from this forum) is making patch boxes and lube tins from Altoid mint tins and the like by burning off the paint in the coals of a wood fire. I have made several and I think they look pretty neat. If I knew how to post a picture, I'd show you what they look like.
