For Smoother Bullet Seating — Try Dry Lube Inside Case Necks
If you want smoother bullet seating, inside neck lube can help. Forum member Ackleyman II likes to add a little Mica powder inside his case necks before seating bullets. This is easily done with the Forster three-brush neck lube kit. Ackleyman tells us: “Many loads that I have will not shoot well with a dry neck compared to a neck that is cleaned and lubed with this [Forster Dry Lubricator] — the best $15 you have ever spent.”
The Forster Case Neck Lubricator features three brushes attached to a tough, impact-resistant case with holes for bench mounting. The brushes accommodate all calibers from 22 to 35 caliber. The kit includes enough “motor mica” to process 2000 to 3000 cases and has a cover to keep dust and grit from contaminating the mica. By moving the case neck up and down on the correct mica-covered brush, the neck can be cleaned and lubricated at the same time.
Function: Lubricate case necks for easier resizing
Contents: Kit with base, lid, and three nylon brushes
Lubricant: Includes 1/10 oz. of Motor Mica, enough to process 2000-3000 cases
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Clean and lube at same time?
Doesn’t strike me as good practice.
Eventually your ‘lube’ is full of firing crud.
Editor: You raise a good point, but remember there is typically much more carbon on the OUTside of the neck. For our necks we just do a couple passes with a nylon brush and do not try to remove all the carbon. If you ultrasonically clean your brass, we recommend using a dry lube such as this Forster product.
I love this tool …. but never use it as a case lubricator. It’s the best thing I’ve found for quick and easy inside neck cleaning. So the motor mica sachet is dumped as soon as I start using a new one. (The brushes are very tough though – it takes a lot of brush strokes on a very large number of cases to wear them out, and even there you can replace them with a same material and calibre barrel brush!) At one time, I had so many unused sachets of the white powder lying about that the wife half-joked that if we were ever raided by the police, they would get themselves highly excited even if it eventually led to great disappointment when they had to let this apparent ‘pusher’ free. (Can you get high on motor mica? More likely be poisoned I’d have thought, Ha! Ha!
For inside neck lubing I much prefer Imperial Die Wax applied with a large cotton bud. It’s a pain to clean it out afterwards, but it really does ease the passage of an expander ball or mandrel through the neck.
I clean ultrasonically. The cartridges come out as they should – sparkling. The time put in is worth the effort, and my projectiles are very consistent.
do you have to clean the case after in order to remove the Mica” residue?