![]() ![]() I think Dans lube was a mix of some natural oil, some kind of modified oil like crisco for stickiness, and something to congeal the oils into a stable product. It isn't a magic lube, and certainly not a commercial product. My lube is a bit sticky and wet, and barely stays on the bullet. I've kept this information to myself out of respect for the effort Dan put into developing the lube, but with his untimely demise and no supply of the lube available now, I thought this information might be of interest to somebody interested in picking up and carrying on Dans experiment.ĭans experiments helped me in my own lube, I use beeswax, and simply upped the amount of oil until it barely works, balancing out the oil with Crisco to make it stick to the bullet. I think he took some pleasure in thowing out hints as to what was in his lube, without actually giving out the ingredients. This is borne out by his assertion that the lube was also some of the best hand cream made. I have one hint, based on something he said to me, that his "magic" ingredient that he used to congeal the oil is Kokum butter. I don't think that is where he ended up, I think his stuff is a simple mix. He had also tried some saponification experiments, realizing there were similarities between his endeavors and soap making. He was shopping in California health food stores, and trying to use natural ingredients. He may have used some "ester", as there were posts he made hinting at that. His breakthrough was to get most of the lube to be oil, with a minimum of carrier. He had recognized that the beeswax or other waxes were simply carriers, not the working ingredient. He was trying to get something that would congeal and carry a large amount of oil, while still being sticky enough to stay on a bullet, and not melt with heat. It also had a short shelf life, as it could spoil.Īnother clue is the breakthrough that Dan made. Another clue is that his lube is edible, as he always hinted at. If another wax is used, mineral oils might work. So, that's why vegetable oils work so well with beeswax lubes, and mineral oils don't. That fact is that Beeswax, the most common lube carrier, is soluble only in NATURAL oils, not mineral oils. One thing is a fact that seemed to escape Dan in his experiments (really didn't matter, he bypassed this problem anyway). However, I have a few clues that may shed some light. So, it was hit and miss availability, and the recipe may have died with him. Of course, he really didn't have the interest in producing it for profit, just one-upping someone else to hurt them. He then invented "white lightning" to compete with "black magic" as a commercial product. He had a breakthrough, and this is about the time he got the feud going with B Bagwell, and deleted all his posts on the lubes from the net. He already had a good idea of what oils would work from his burning off experiments, he focused on how to get the highest percentage of oil in the lube compared to the carrier ingredients. So, his experiments veered off in that direction. The conclusion he came to early on is that the most oil you could put in the lube, and have it still stick to the bullet, the better off you were. This was an area of frustration for him, as none worked all that well, and they had varying compatibility with the oils, which made design of the mix tricky, to get it to stick, stay solid in the right temperature range, work in the barrel to prevent leading, etc. He tried all the waxes he could get, paraffin, bayberry, soy, beeswax, etc. The second area that Dan experimented with was the carrier for the lube. He tried sperm oil, steam cylinder oil, and many vegetable oils in his quest to find the best. He did eventually acknowledge that the particular oil didn't matter as much as the quantity that the lube carried. He had a particular interest in finding something that worked better than canola oil, as he had a grudge he wanted to nurture against the guys that were using lube-guard, which contains modified canola oil. One of his final contenders was avocado oil. So, he tried a bunch of oils and waxes, and found which one left the least sticky residue when burned in a pan. ![]() I'll share what I learned from his experiments, and what I remember of his ingredients, and speculate on where I think he ended up.ĭan came to the idea that the heat/friction in the lube was causing it to "burn", and that getting to a lube that didn't leave a tarry residue would be the best thing. However, I had some interest in his project and followed it, and corresponded with him a bit as he developed it. I don't claim to know what Dan had in his lube.
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