Another Bullet Making Question

How to lube seated bullets

Fla mac said:
Al,
You are right about the amount of lube on the jackets during bullet making.
The problem is I have steel dies which require more lube than carbide. I have heard many bullet makers using about 4 grs. of lube per 1000 jackets (carbide dies) but I don’t think that will work for steel dies. Maybe core seating core could use the tumbling processes, but will it work when you point up. I am trying to find someone that use steel dies that tumble jackets to apply lube.

Mike,
The way I have been shooting this year + or - a baseball field on a bullet ogive is good enough for me.
john
Mims, Fl.
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Hi Mike,

I have lubed seated bullets in the past and did so without any issues. You still need to weigh out an amount of lube and apply it. I used a plastic one gallon jar. I would spread the lube and hand tumble the jar with the seated bullets inside. I never tried to tumble the plastic jar and seated bullet combination in the tumbler as I thought the weight would be too much.

Good Luck,

David.
 
+1 on the glass jars. That is what we use. To keep things consistent we clean them out each time. This is harder with plastic.

Regards,
Eric
 
For clarity sake, I am referring to using a glass jar for the lubing of empty jackets. When we used to relube seated bullets (back in Phoenix) we used a plastic jar as David describes. We didn't want to break a glass jar full of seated bullets.

Regards,
Eric
 
How I lube Jackets

Hello Guys, always interesting a thread concerning bullet making: to lube cores and Jackets I've built this tumbler: the double barrels are made of plexyglass and are octagonal. Seems it works fine. I clean them every time to lube with the same amount of lube. Each barrel can lube some thousands jackets in the same time.
Alberto
 

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Eric Stecker said:
Quite impressive.

Regards,
Eric
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Thank You Eric!) And to cut the problem on the presses you talked about I've builded my own press and i'm very happy with the quality of the bullets I can get from these presses. They are becoming very popular among the European bulletmakers.
My regards
Alberto
 

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Alberto Lenzi said:
Hello Guys, always interesting a thread concerning bullet making: to lube cores and Jackets I've built this tumbler: the double barrels are made of plexyglass and are octagonal. Seems it works fine. I clean them every time to lube with the same amount of lube. Each barrel can lube some thousands jackets in the same time.
Alberto
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Alberto
Do you make the tumbler to sell?
 
Faq

Lots of good info in the FAQ section of this forum! Look under Bullet Making
Bryan
 
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