Another vote for the 6.5 guys recipe
Yeah, lanolin isn't water soluble so it'll require a petroleum distillate to dissolve it. I'll look into the parts washer. See I do have lots of brass to work, I do it all and we're talking on order of 10,000 rounds of .50 alone, more of 5.56. I use a cement mixer which was working awesome until I put brass with lanolin in it.
So yesterday I just used a piece of steel wool and it got it nice and shiny and removed any of the gunk. But it's time consuming so yeah, I'll be checking into the mineral spirits. I have some on hand I can test it out on.
Lanolin is such a pain in the ass but it works so well. I was thinking about trying some KY jelly on a few and see if that does anything. That IS watersoluble big time and would be super easy to clean off --if it works. I'm sure someone has tired this before so I'm assuming it doesn't work since I never heard of it. So I'll try it out here in a little bit.
10:1 99% alcohol:liquid lanolin for smooooth sizing then 1 hour SS tumbling with a healthy dose of Dawn and 1/2 tsp of lemishine. No issues with clogged pins and super clean and shiny brass. Easiest system I've found. Been doing it for the last couple of years and see no need to change - at least in the foreseeable future...
I'm having one heck of a time getting my ratio correct Too much lanolin in the cases stick in the chamber causing failures to extract. Too little lanolin and they wind up getting stuck in your sizing die. I've almost given up.
03-13-2021 15:37:24 | Hornady SuperPerformance 62gn fmjbt | 223 to coopberate the shattering performance | 15 | 0.275 | |
# | FPS | FT-LBS | PF | ||
39 | 3027 | 1265.7 | 188.28 | ||
38 | 3011 | 1252.35 | 187.28 | ||
37 | 2964 | 1213.56 | 184.36 | ||
36 | 2993 | 1237.43 | 186.16 | ||
35 | 3020 | 1259.85 | 187.84 | ||
34 | 3044 | 1279.96 | 189.34 | ||
33 | 3023 | 1262.36 | 188.03 | ||
32 | 3042 | 1278.27 | 189.21 | ||
31 | 3008 | 1249.86 | 187.1 | ||
30 | 3027 | 1265.7 | 188.28 | ||
29 | 3037 | 1274.08 | 188.9 | ||
28 | 3045 | 1280.8 | 189.4 | ||
27 | 3047 | 1282.48 | 189.52 | ||
26 | 3043 | 1279.12 | 189.27 | ||
25 | 2992 | 1236.6 | 186.1 | ||
24 | 2995 | 1239.08 | 186.29 | ||
23 | 2990 | 1234.95 | 185.98 | ||
22 | 3001 | 1244.05 | 186.66 | ||
21 | 3000 | 1243.22 | 186.6 | ||
20 | 3002 | 1244.88 | 186.72 | ||
19 | 2992 | 1236.6 | 186.1 | ||
18 | 3033 | 1270.72 | 188.65 | ||
17 | 2998 | 1241.56 | 186.48 | ||
16 | 2984 | 1230 | 185.6 | ||
15 | 3021 | 1260.69 | 187.91 | ||
14 | 2948 | 1200.5 | 183.37 | ||
13 | 3045 | 1280.8 | 189.4 | ||
12 | 3066 | 1298.52 | 190.71 | ||
11 | ERROR 3 | ||||
10 | ERROR 3 | ||||
9 | ERROR 3 | ||||
8 | 2646 | 967.13 | 164.58 | ||
7 | 2688 | 998.08 | 167.19 | ||
6 | 2523 | 879.31 | 156.93 | ||
5 | 2606 | 938.11 | 162.09 | ||
4 | 2661 | 978.13 | 165.51 | ||
3 | ERROR 10 | ||||
2 | 2638 | 961.29 | 164.08 | ||
1 | 2614 | 943.88 | 162.59 | ||
AVG | StdDev | Min | Max | Spread | TrueMV |
2936.4 | 161.34 | 2523 | 3066 | 543 | 2954.62 |