Steve - "I was thinking the Alox might help with leading."
Are you having problems with leading? I ask this just because I'm curious and if you are, in what revolver, etc.?
I've owned many C & B revolves over the years - a couple of 44s but mainly '51 Navies and I honestly cannot remember ever having problems with leading. I can only speak from my experiences though - I've always used soft lead RB - .375. I have always used a lubed wad over powder. Many years ago, I was using the commercial felt wads - now, I punch leather wads out of scraps that I have left over from my leather work - usually I use about 8 ounce leather. After punching, I soak them in a bowl of melted crisco/toilet ring wax - pull 'em out and pat them down with paper towel. They end up with a nice "waxy" feel but not heavy coated. I always grease the chamber mouths with the crisco/toilet ring combo.
I've never had a problem with the cylinder binding on fouling, etc. nor with any leading and what I'm doing seems to keep all the fouling soft - sometimes a little messy but hey, it's a BP revolver.
I've only shot BP - usually 3F unless I was short and then I've used 2F.
I've never used Pyrodex or similar so can't speak as to how they work as a combo either or if something like that might be more prone to having leading problems. Since you reload 45 ACP, you are well aware of bullet size / bore size / leading etc. Normally, when I shoot my BP revolver, I probably don't put more than 10 cylinders full through it at a time - as I said, I've never had a leading problem when I clean the bore but everyone shoots different loads, hardness of lead, etc. so I'd really be curious to hear if you are having leading problems of if others have experience it in theirs?
I can see a conversion BP possibly having it if there is a bore size difference which requires a HB slug or a heeled bullet possibly but I have had not experience with that either so really don't know. I know some like to shoot conical out of their BP revolvers - perhaps they can chime in as to whether they have had any leading problems?
Always nice to hear what other's experiences are. It certainly would be easy enough to tumble lube some balls in a lox or a combo of it and see what the results would be as far as leading (if you are having a problem) as well as fouling, accuracy, etc. I don't know if it would really make a difference on RB or not but on a conical, if it has a lube groove, it would be fun to try it and see what happens.
salvadore says he tumble lubes his conicals - maybe he can give us sone insight on it?