Thread: Case lube alternative

I like the Dillon spray lube. It's a mix of alcohol and lanolin. I take a plastic container, put the brass in, spray a couple of times, mix and stir until everything is coated and then let the alcohol flash off and dry.

The old imperial sizing wax works fine but is slow.

Yep, Chemist will sell you lanolin. I scored mine from a friend who works in a laboratory.

Straight Lanolin comes from straight sheep

Isopropyl alcohol 99.99% and a bit of Lanolin dissolved in it and put into a little spray bottle. Two sprays into a ziplock bag with the cases in, mix them up and ready to go. Got both of TM for around $30 and it will last me for decades.

Isopropyl alcohol is cheapest at the bulk cleaning supply places . . .

You can get the Lanolin in 44 gallon drums too, we use it to spray on wire ropes.
Makes me smell all sheepish.... reminds me of living in the south.

Originally Posted by johnd

Straight Lanolin comes from straight sheep

ok how do you tell a straight sheep from a gay sheep

The gay sheep wont go near the straight sheep.... they wont have a baaa of it!

Originally Posted by johnd

The gay sheep wont go near the straight sheep.... they wont have a baaa of it!

brilliant !

Originally Posted by JaSa

Isopropyl alcohol 99.99% and a bit of Lanolin dissolved in it and put into a little spray bottle. Two sprays into a ziplock bag with the cases in, mix them up and ready to go. Got both of TM for around $30 and it will last me for decades.

I think that's what the Dillon spray lube is or close to it. As I tumble after sizing I only use spray lube and lanolin is the best

Yea that's what I was picking it was any one know the ratios to mix it

Originally Posted by northdude

Yea that's what I was picking it was any one know the ratios to mix it

Two tablespoons of lanolin into a 350ml spray bottle, topped off with alcohol