Don't try this

[Cuts Crooked]

Howdy Pards, We often share our successes here and in doing so we save other pards some hassles in their attempts to find what werks bestest wif black powder. Well...I'm gonna try to save someone frum makin a MISTAKE! I ran outta olive oil fer my lube mix so I snuck inta Renegade Angels kitchen and started lookin through cookin' supplies. Found me a bottle of sumpthin called Canola Oil. DON'T TRY IT!!!!!!! This stuff did wierd thangs to my lube recipie! I ended up with something...not sure wat...that is granular and very sticky when melted in wif my beeswax! Donno if has ANY lubing qualities, but Ah'm reluctant to let it anywhere near my precious shootin' irons! And I wasted two pounds of good bees wax!

I'll set this stuff aside and make up a new batch with tried & true ingrediants. Perhaps sometime this winter I'll work with this stuff and see iffin I can cut it in with some of those good ingrediants and get something useable outta it.

Hope this saves someone frum makin' the same boo boo!

[Silver Creek Slim]

Thanks fer sharing that, Cuts. Sounds like some weird stuff. 

Slim

[hellgate]

Hey Cuts,
You might be able to use it up as a shotgun wad lube. That's one way of going through alotta marginal lube. I sure used up a lot when lubing some filler wads for my front stuffer. It makes the wad heavier so you myght want to lower the powder charge a little so you don'y get blown patterns or use a shot cup..

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[Russ T Chambers]

Thanks fer sharing that, Cuts. Sounds like some weird stuff. 

Slim

Be careful it don’t get near any yeast!   It might turn inta one of those rogue starters Del sometimes turns loose when makin’ sourdough!

[Cuts Crooked]

Hmmmm? A bit of yeast, a little wheat flour, add a few drops of water, set behint the stove.........NAH! Sounds like sumpthin Dr. Fankenstien might be afraid ta try!

Hellgate, that might/could be a good idea. But I'm gonna cut it wif a bunch of crisco b'fore I try it!

[dutchman]

OH MY GOWD! ITS ALIVE! DON'T LET IT EAT ANYBODY!!!

[Grizzle Bear]

Ain't a bit surprised.  That stuff is not good for your internal workin's, if you know what I mean.

Grizzle Bear

[El Paso Pete]

Stick a wick in it and see if it will burn like a candle.  If it don't cut yer loses and trash the stuff.  My 2 cents worth.

[The Arapaho Kid]

Cuts:  What about using Peanut Oil in your lube mix?  I gave up using Olive Oil years ago.  It's a little expensive and Peanut Oil does the same job for cheap.  I keep at least two bottle os good ol' Planters Peanut Oil here.  One for cooking and one for other oil necessities.  Planters works real well on squeaky door hinges!

[Dick Dastardly]

Yup, cut it with cheep vegie shortnin' and see if it will lube scattergun fiber wads.  Get it good 'n hot and stir in the wads and let 'em soak up as much as they can.  If'n that don't work, give Pete's suggestion a try.  At least you will feel better about throwin' it out if ya try to make it do somethin' useful first.

Whuts a canola anyway?

BTW, that's one fine article you wrote in the CC.

DD-DLoS

[Delmonico]

It's an oil that is considered heath food.  Been around for years but they done found out in the 1980's that it has almost no co-less-ter-all so they developed in on the comercial scale.  I worked on some of the equipment that was used in the development work.  we made the small combines they used for the test plots.

A real pain to harvest, the header uses an extra roller above to shove the stuff on it. One day they told us they had changed the name, they were no longer rapeseed rollers but canola rollers.  They decided to use the taxanomical name for marketing reasons.   Myself I won't use it, even for cooking.

And add all the yeast you want to yer mix, unless you add some car-bo-hydrates that yeast ain't doin' squat.