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ALOX ?
« on: December 05, 2011, 10:57:19 AM »
Any of you boys us ALOX liquid lube on your pistol bullets ?

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Re: ALOX ?
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2011, 11:55:45 AM »
Yup, I tumble lube all my pistol bullets with Lee Alox. Works fine and very easy to do when you are shooting a couyple hundred bullets a week............
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Re: ALOX ?
« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2011, 11:57:43 AM »
I do with smokeless... they look ugly but work great.

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Re: ALOX ?
« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2011, 11:59:18 AM »
 I got the best results with it , lubing after sizing, the stuff doesn't fill the lube grooves but makes a coating on the bearing surface of the bullet.
 Biggest drawback is the stuff will fill up the seating stem , so you need to clean that out once in awhile or the oal starts changing..
 :oDon't try it with blackpowder either... :D not a pretty sight. :-[
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Re: ALOX ?
« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2011, 12:12:18 PM »
I do all my smokeless pistol loads with it, after they are dry I dust them with powdered mica, makes them easier to handle, Hornaday does the same thing with their lead bullets.
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Re: ALOX ?
« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2011, 12:19:30 PM »
Thanks guys. I'd been using it some for smokeless,,but wanted to be sure I wasn't using something that might harm my rifling's in my revolvers.

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Re: ALOX ?
« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2011, 01:06:36 PM »
I've run lead bullets to 14-1500 fps with no problems.
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Re: ALOX ?
« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2011, 02:06:15 PM »
Marshal deadwood, are you also using the LEE bullet sizing dies?

They go hand in hand with the Lee Liquid Alox and make sizing after lubing really fast.

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Re: ALOX ?
« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2011, 03:04:45 PM »
I like the idea of tumbling the bullets in powdered mica after Alox. I wonder if tumbling in HBN or Danzac might even be better?

Hexagonal Boron Nitride (HBN) is widely used to reduce friction in industrial applications, but it has only recently been adapted to bullets. The "latest and greatest" bullet-coating material, HBN is ultra-slippery, goes on clear (not powdery), and will not combine with moisture or potentially harm barrel steel. HBN also can withstand extremely high temps (1000° C). Many users feel HBN is cleaner to work with than Moly or WS2, and has fewer health risks. David Tubb believes HBN is the best of the three choices, and we predict, with time, HBN will become the preferred dry lubricant for bullet-coating.

I have some HBN and I'm going to give it a try.............Thanks for the idea!
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Re: ALOX ?
« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2011, 02:52:05 PM »
I like the idea of tumbling the bullets in powdered mica after Alox. I wonder if tumbling in HBN or Danzac might even be better?

Hexagonal Boron Nitride (HBN) is widely used to reduce friction in industrial applications, but it has only recently been adapted to bullets. The "latest and greatest" bullet-coating material, HBN is ultra-slippery, goes on clear (not powdery), and will not combine with moisture or potentially harm barrel steel. HBN also can withstand extremely high temps (1000° C). Many users feel HBN is cleaner to work with than Moly  or WS2, and has fewer health risks. David Tubb believes HBN is the best of the three choices, and we predict, with time, HBN will become the preferred dry lubricant for bullet-coating.

I have some HBN and I'm going to give it a try.............Thanks for the idea!

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