I wanted to try making patch lube. I wanted to see what result I'd get with a 50/50 beeswax/coconut oil mix.
I have some scraps of linen with tan and white stripes. I cut the striped linen into 1 1/4 inch wide strips. I melted the wax and oil together and soaked the strips of linen in the mix.
The cloth came out way too waxy. And with those tan stripes. It looked and felt like pieces of -- raw bacon. I hung it to dry. Then scraped off the excess to reveal the infused linen. I rolled the scrapings into a ball that I can use to lube more cloth.
Smokey, been there tried that, and loved the time spent on my attempt.
I tried strips, and like you, I made something of a mess on my first attempt....50/50 is not right.
Then I heated a 3oz wax, and 6oz. Coconut Oil, (which I thought would be over-kill) dipped my strips in the pan, pulled the strips between two fingers and a thumb to remove most of the excess, and hung it on a clothes line in direct sunlight to dry.
Rolled 'em up and they looked pretty good...they were NOT "runny" as I had expected.
I shot two 3 ft strips that year and it appeared to be a pretty good lube, even on cold mornings.
Smells pretty good when ya heat it, but so far I have found no correlation between smelling great and accuracy.
So, I'll just say Coconut Oil does works pretty good as a lube mix....even tried it on its own, it's okay but nothing sensational.
Russ...
Topic: Well. It worked, sort of. Maybe. (Read 2312 times)