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Case Lubricant

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Hi,
1 - Has anyone used LPS-1 as a case lubricant?
2 - Is Spray Silicon still popular for case lubricant?
3 - What do you consider to be the best NON-MESSY case lubricant?
Thanks,
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Re: Case Lubricant

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Hornady One Shot case lube is the only lube I have used for years. Works and I never need to clean it off.
https://www.hornady.com/reloading/case- ... case-lubes
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I like the Dillon lube. Except for the price, so I make my own now. Use lanolin oil 99% alcohol. Get the red jugs of HEET at walmart for that part.
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The only time I ever had a stuck case while USING case lube, was with Hornady One Shot. While it needs to be cleaned off, I use Dillon lube. Very effective.
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cat-mechanic wrote: April 3rd, 2021, 11:18 pm I like the Dillon lube. Except for the price, so I make my own now. Use lanolin oil 99% alcohol. Get the red jugs of HEET at walmart for that part.
Same here, been making my own for many years.
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Intel6 wrote: April 4th, 2021, 7:28 am
cat-mechanic wrote: April 3rd, 2021, 11:18 pm I like the Dillon lube. Except for the price, so I make my own now. Use lanolin oil 99% alcohol. Get the red jugs of HEET at walmart for that part.
Same here, been making my own for many years.
Same here as well been using Dillon's Lube for many years without a problem.
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RCBS lube for at least 50 years now.
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i used a lot of them over the years and find dillon the best.
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Dillon lube is actually made by Berry's Mfg, and it's really easy to make your own. Having it in a full size spray bottle makes really quick work out of a large batch of cases too.
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Thanks for the great input.
Off I go to get the goodies and make my own.
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I make my own it's super cheep, Use lanolin oil 99% alcohol 1 to 10 mix if I remember correctly, look up videos on youtube, it is the same thing dillon does and it's cheep.
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I haven't had any issues with using Hornady One Shot...but it does seem that whenever I hear about a stuck case on a forum, or recently from a friend, they were using Hornady One Shot. Could just be an observation bias, but I think I'm going to switch once my can of One Shot runs dry.

I might try the DIY lanolin/alcohol mixture.
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QuietM4 wrote: April 4th, 2021, 9:16 pm I haven't had any issues with using Hornady One Shot...but it does seem that whenever I hear about a stuck case on a forum, or recently from a friend, they were using Hornady One Shot. Could just be an observation bias, but I think I'm going to switch once my can of One Shot runs dry.

I might try the DIY lanolin/alcohol mixture.
On some gun forums it's affectionately known as Super Glue instead of One Shot.

It looks like it was just used improperly when the cases stuck, but I can't tell for sure.
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I got a ton of small bottles of the lanolin oil when an old friend passed away, so I figured I would try it, and it works as good as bullet butter or dillons lube, and I don't have to make a trip to dillon.
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