Comments on: For Smoother Bullet Seating — Try Dry Lube Inside Case Necks

By: Michael Tjon

Michael Tjon — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 12:33:02 +0000

do you have to clean the case after in order to remove the Mica” residue?

By: David Lawson

David Lawson — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 03:32:22 +0000

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.

By: Laurie Holland

Laurie Holland — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:48:03 +0000

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.

By: Dave Thain

Dave Thain — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 12:29:34 +0000

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.