Another Use for Frog Lube

[Hoot]

I'm a seeker and you know what they say, "There's a Seeker Born Every Minute".

I'm a fool for snake oil and have many containers of different lubricants, cleaners, Doan's Pills, etc. in my chemical cabinet. Unfortunately, many are almost as full as when I got them. Fool and his money...

Anyway, I sat down to resize some 6XC cases and my tin of Imperial wasn't where it was supposed to be. The perils of growing older.

I rummaged around and still no luck, so feeling braver than my usual degree, I went to the chemical cabinet, looked around at all the candidates and grabbed a jar of Frog Lube paste. I remembered how slippery it was and having almost a full jar, I figured I'd try it on a few cases out of curiosity. Holy Moley!, it put my Imperial to shame and a little went a long, long way. The mint aroma was a secondary benefit. I wound up doing a 50 ct. tray of cases with it, wiping off the excess left behind. My only concern is whether the slipperiness, which was still there after wiping them, will tumble off. I just might give them a trip through the Dawn bath before tumbling them, to be sure. Of course, I found the Imperial a little while later.

Food for thought.

Hoot

 

[One Shot One Thrill]

Here is the best case lube method I've ever come across.
99 percent alcohol mixed 14 to 1 oart liquid lanolin in a spray bottle.
I put all the bras im going to size in an aluminum pan mist roll around midt again and let the alcohol evaporate. They will slide easier than anything else.
Very inexpensive and quick not much on your hands either.

 

[mr45man]

Here is the best case lube method I've ever come across.
99 percent alcohol mixed 14 to 1 oart liquid lanolin in a spray bottle.
I put all the bras im going to size in an aluminum pan mist roll around midt again and let the alcohol evaporate. They will slide easier than anything else.
Very inexpensive and quick not much on your hands either.

yep, that's what Dillon spray lube is i believe.

 

[dolek]

Good to learn this,thanks for sharing . Being a food grade product I would think it does no harm to brass or the user, I will have to give it a try .

 

[JMayo]

Hummm, and I threw mine out with the trash.
I chuckle at the chit I went through with that stuff. Froze my 357 cylinder up big time. What a pain.
There are still fans of it though.

 

[Fotheringill]

Here is the best case lube method I've ever come across.
99 percent alcohol mixed 14 to 1 oart liquid lanolin in a spray bottle.
I put all the bras im going to size in an aluminum pan mist roll around midt again and let the alcohol evaporate. They will slide easier than anything else.
Very inexpensive and quick not much on your hands either.

Just don't pour out the lanolin down your drain. You will be in for a nasty surprise. I know this from experience.

 

[jghoghunter]

Hummm, and I threw mine out with the trash.
I chuckle at the chit I went through with that stuff. Froze my 357 cylinder up big time. What a pain.
There are still fans of it though.

Which did you throw out in the trash. Lanolin or imperial?

 

[Hohn]

Here is the best case lube method I've ever come across.
99 percent alcohol mixed 14 to 1 oart liquid lanolin in a spray bottle.
I put all the bras im going to size in an aluminum pan mist roll around midt again and let the alcohol evaporate. They will slide easier than anything else.
Very inexpensive and quick not much on your hands either.

This is what I use. The problem is getting the lanolin back off. Most soaps won't remove it. And it become a carbon and scum magnet. But at least you won't have stuck cases.

 

[dstoenner]

This is what I use. The problem is getting the lanolin back off. Most soaps won't remove it. And it become a carbon and scum magnet. But at least you won't have stuck cases.

I just throw my sized cases in corn cob media for an hour. Lanolin gone and cases are shinny. What’s not to like??

David

 

[AllenOne1]

I use Frog Lube to prevent rust on my woodworking hand planes never on firearms. It actually works pretty well in that application. Using it as a sizing lube sounds like a good use for it. It's just coconut oil isn't it?

 

[Cecil S.]

Here is the best case lube method I've ever come across.
99 percent alcohol mixed 14 to 1 oart liquid lanolin in a spray bottle.
I put all the bras im going to size in an aluminum pan mist roll around midt again and let the alcohol evaporate. They will slide easier than anything else.
Very inexpensive and quick not much on your hands either.

+100 on this I necked down 308LC to 6.5 and this worked the best buy far. I wet tumble with SS pins didnt have a problem. Your mileage may differ.

 

[One Shot One Thrill]

I just throw my sized cases in corn cob media for an hour. Lanolin gone and cases are shinny. What’s not to like??

David

Put a little flitz media polish in there and your done. The bullet seating Benefit is a plus as well.

 

[Hoot]

Put a little flitz media polish in there and your done. The bullet seating Benefit is a plus as well.

I have a can of Turtle Wax Rubbing Compound that dried out years ago into a pink hockey puck. I scrape like a quarter tsp of the dust off into my vibratory tumbler every few loads. Not sure if it helps but I had to justify keeping it around. J/K Brass comes out looking real shiny.

Hoot

 

[dstoenner]

Put a little flitz media polish in there and your done. The bullet seating Benefit is a plus as well.

I actually use grafs polish each time i do a run Whether it is the first or second. Just didn’t want to clutter up the topic.

David

 

[JMayo]

Which did you throw out in the trash. Lanolin or imperial?

The op's topic is Frog lube ....

 

[searcher]

Some acquaintances had raved about Frog Lube - so I bought some and started running it on my A/R's. I found I could only run my guns half as long without having to clean them, they were harder to clean and I encountered (gasp!) rust. S-canned the rest. Happily back to old method.

 

[Hoot]

Not to drag this too far but there's a difference between Frog Lube oil and paste. The paste is what they add to a carrier oil to make Frog Lube Oil. IE the paste is more concentrated. that's what I bought a couple of years ago. It was sure slick in my AR actions but I went back to Dow Corning Molykote G-n paste that I had been using since 2010. The Frog Lube paste, while crazy slick when applied, dried up to a clay-like coating. For someone who flushed out their rig with brakleen or other powerful solvent after each range visit, it was no big deal. If you left it on for several outings it dried out though it was still slippery. I never put it on the part of my AR bolt that went into the carrier, just the front half and cam linkage. I knew how hot the gas got back there and didn't want "Baked Alaska" to scrape off along with the carbon. Never put it in my bores either. I like the fact that its plant based but for now, its either Tetra Grease, the Molykote Grease, MGL or Slick 2000 in my actions. At least the Frog Lube paste has found a new home. Works great on a case rolling pad too.

Hoot

 

[SeabeeKen]

Some acquaintances had raved about Frog Lube - so I bought some and started running it on my A/R's. I found I could only run my guns half as long without having to clean them, they were harder to clean and I encountered (gasp!) rust. S-canned the rest. Happily back to old method.

I tested froglube among many others. Froglube used as a rust preventive worked ok on a 1911 that had the finish stripped off. After a day it had dried to a tar like substance. Froglube and fireclean froze solid in the cold weather test. I used it up on the ways of my lathe.