"Processing raw Beeswax for use as cast bullet lube"

This video covers basic raw beeswax processing in your home for making your own bullet lube MUCH cheaper than you can be buy in the store.

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Education

Tags:

• Beeswax
• bees
• wax
• bullet
• lube
• alox
• cast
• boolit
• boolits
• bullets
• 50/50
• Javelina
• Red
• Rooster
• butter
• lard
• fat
• smokeless

[blainenay]

I process my wax by dumping it right into a pot of hot water. (I don't use a double boiler. Dumping the wax directly into the water achieves the same goals.) The wax floats on top of the water. Most of the debris and sludge sinks to the bottom of the water. Skim off the floating debris, then let the pot cool. Then lift out the cake of wax. The bottom of the cake will have a layer of debris which is denser than wax. This crud simply scrapes off leaving a nice cake of clean wax.

[Iraqveteran8888]

Sounds like a perfectly sound and feasible idea. Thanks for sharing.

[poduck2]

That is essentially what beekeepers do. I usually add water to the cappings when I melt them. That way there is no moving the wax from one place to another. Most of the junk goes to the bottom, and you can skim the junk off the top. Then you can use your turkey baster to suck off the wax while it is still melted and you won't be wasting all the wax that is mixed in with the trash.

[Iraqveteran8888]

Know of a good place to get beeswax for a decent price? Do you sell any?

[poduck2]

@Iraqveteran8888 I haven't kept bees for a few years, so I am out, but every beekeeper will have tons after the first big honey harvest at the end of spring, beginning of summer. Talk to some beeks about buying their cappings, and make a lowball offer and see what you get. Many beekeepers hate that part of the job.

Even better, keep a hive of your own. You'll never run out, and it's actually rather fun as a hobby. Unless you hate honey that is.

[Iraqveteran8888]

I might find a local beekeeper and see if they need help with that process for the mere price of all the wax I can carry...lol

[JanJoepJaakJansen]

have you tried to put the restrainer into the heater and then sucking up the beeswax? maybe it was already mentioned, but too lazy to read al these reactions :) lol

[poduck2]

@JustWonderingHowToDo The entire comb is made of beeswax for the most part. Beekeepers tend to reuse their old comb in most cases because it makes less work for the bees, but the cappings are pretty much always used to make beeswax and beeswax products.

[JustWonderingHowToDo]

@poduck2 Are only the cappings made of beeswax or is the entire honeycomb made of beeswax? I alwas thought it was the last one, correct me if i'm wrong.

[omgiTsmeJon]

can u use other types of waxes?

[blackgaymidgetjew]

You make great, thorough videos. I got into reloading for the sole fact that i could make cheap, accurate ammo, after my first few batches of ammo i started to realize that i enjoyed the feeling i get from making ammo. Making ammo is an extremely gratifying hobby for me, i love the hands-on primal feeling of making ammo to my personal specs . Now i made my own case tumbler, cast my own boolits, and make my own lube. Thank you for all the videos you have posted, they have helped me immenseley.

[rushymoto]

Yes, My Dad keeps bees and we have loads of wax to use, We also both shoot so I am looking forward to making my bullet lube. To get the crap out of the wax, get a sive strainer the same size as a sauce pan and put the wax in it, put it in the top of the pan and put the lid on, set the whole contraption with water in it to boil and the wax will be steamed through the strainer.

[fuzzywzhe]

as a suggestion, instead of using a coffee filter, why don't you just wrap some cheese cloth on the end of the turkey baster? It will filter as you suck the wax up, and it all you need to do is wipe off the tip before you expel the liquid wax.

[bldeagle10]

lol @ javalina, pronounced hava-lina j=h sound. just helpin ya out

[fishblade2]

question this method works for the bullets that he has with the rings that the lube stays in but what about the balls? I have cast iron balls that I want to pre-lube without having to add so much lube in the cylinders of my revolver to keep from misfire. If you can't do it with the iron balls then where do you get a casting tool that will make another type of bullet? Please send a link if anyone knows. Thanks!

[suirvale]

what bullet lube used for ,..is it gun bullet or wht,.