Brass, Cap and Ball Chamber Lubricator

[Beagle333]

I did not know these existed. And here I've been using a popsicle stick this entire time.
Ebay Item

 

[Ideal Tool]

Hello, Beagle333. Back when I was shooting a Navy Arms 1851 .36 revolver, I used a cake decorator filled with Crisco.

 

[Hawg]

Y'all are using waaaay too much lube.

 

[Beagle333]

I have seen (and tried) using an oral syringe (10CC) and it works with CVA grease, but not with my beeswax/olive oil lube. I wear my pistol around the property often so my lube needs to be able to hold up well in the heat and wouldn't flow through a brass thing or syringe. I don't use a wad so I just seal the ball in there good. That little plastic tub of lube shown there is good for about 400± shots.

 

[brushhippie]

I use Bore Butter, but only a small ring around the edge of the ball, applied with a q tip.

 

[deerslayer303]

That thing is pretty neat. Truthfully I haven't used a lube yet, just lubed wads. I plan on doing so though, I have all the ingredients to make the Gatofeo, but I don't have a double boiler yet. But I will probably go with a popscicle stick too.

 

[Andy Griffith]

I've had one of those for likely 8 or 10 years. A handy accessory to say the least!

Melt your grease and pour it in and then stick it in the refrigerator for a bit to cool a bit more quickly.

If you use bacon grease or any "recycled" grease from cooking, it will have to be immediately emptied and cleaned after a shooting session- the salt in recycled greases will eat at the brass. Crisco is no problem...except it become more sticky after it has been melted once...not a problem unless you get it on your hands or clothing.

 

[wogpotter]

but I don't have a double boiler yet

Sure you do, you just don't know it yet.

All a double boiler is consists of a small saucepan inside a bigger one. Any 2 containers that will hold water & take heat will do. I frequently use "tin cans" standing in a 2 Qt saucepan. Just use pliers to hold the hot inner container, or don't take the whole lid completely off so it forms a handle when bent back.

 

[Hawg]

I use Bore Butter, but only a small ring around the edge of the ball, applied with a q tip.

That's all you need.

 

[deerslayer303]

Sure you do, you just don't know it yet.

All a double boiler is consists of a small saucepan inside a bigger one. Any 2 containers that will hold water & take heat will do. I frequently use "tin cans" standing in a 2 Qt saucepan. Just use pliers to hold the hot inner container, or don't take the whole lid completely off so it forms a handle when bent back.

Oh lordy, now why in the blue blazes didn't I think of that already? Thanks for the info.

 

[Hellgate]

Andy (Griffith),
Does that brass syringe have a rubber "O" ring or neoprene gasket or is it all brass? The reason I ask is because for years I have used the curved tip irrigation syringes and plain old automotive grease as my over ball lube. Eventually the grease will work it way into the rubber of the plastic syringe plunger and swell it so they are a use once & throw away. Fortunately, I get a box of 50 on line and they are about 15-20 cents each. When I used crisco the rubber swelled even sooner. I considered using a small cartridge grease gun.

I use a softer formula for cooler weather of 1 part beeswax and 2 parts olive oil. I add a bit of blue crayon to identify it as the cool weather formula. For hot weather it is 50/50 beeswax & olive oil. Again, now I use automotive bearing grease (cheapest I can find) and it is the same consisitancy whether hot or cold.

 

[Andy Griffith]

It is all brass or bronze- even the "plunger" part, but it does have two o-rings on where the caps of each end go on. They've nearly disintegrated on mine, but with crisco or bore butter or anything with the roughly the same consistency or perhaps even just a bit thinner consistency, the rings aren't even needed. If you are going to use something as thin as olive oil, then you'd need some new o-rings after they disintegrate, but it'd likely leak out around the plunger.

I hope that answers your question.

 

[emishi]

Double-boiler

@deerslayer303 ... I just loaded my mix of Crisco, bee's wax and a little olive oil in a pickle jar and placed it in the microwave, stopping and stirring the contents until melted and mixed. Reseal the jar before or after the mix has cooled. Simpler and easier than the boiler. : D

 

[emishi]

Double-boiler

I make paper cartridges out of typing paper. It's stout, coated and burns quickly. I add 22 grains of powder, firmly tapped into the tube, a couple grains of grits, lubed wad and lubed ball/conical all finger compressed tightly. The paper tube is tapered and about .380 at the open end, so the conical's NEED to be lubed to insert them without damaging the tube.

I don't use/need lube over the ball/conical as...

1.) the powder is encased in the paper tube, thereby leaving no microscopic powder residue along the chamber sides (that would facilitate a chain fire).

2.) the paper extends the full length of the lead bullet, while remaining open (not fully enclosed), with the grease from inserting the wad and lead coating the inside of the paper.

With the addition of Treso's and a pinned hammer slot, the revolvers remain chain-fire and cap-jam free.

 

[arcticap]

Dixie Guns Works sells that same item which is listed as the
MI0110 Grease Dispenser, and it has 2 user reviews that give it 5 stars:

http://www.dixiegunworks.com/produc...=8096&osCsid=bb425713625d9127d529a4a072f70d66

For lubing bullets or sealing revolver cylinders. Heavy gauge brass, 3 ¾”long and 1” in diameter. The plunger has a brass knob, shaft and round piston to force grease from the tube. Tube is threaded and closed by end caps sealed with rubber gaskets. A brass stopper screws into the tapered end of the dispenser preventing leakage.