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SharpsTraveler
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Old lubed bullets

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What is the best method to remove old bullet lube?

I discovered a large stash of 20 year old lubed 40 & 45 caliber bullets that are just begging to be used. Quantity involved is a little over 1000.
These bullets are properly sized, were stored in nice repurposed old foam cartridge containers and have been in buried in a closet for 2 decades.
Yes, life got in the way and stuff got misplaced and forgotten. Oops ...

The lubricant is dry/chalky hard and really should be removed & replaced.

I really don’t want to melt down and recast.

Reapplying lube is the easy part.
Running them through my rifles and putting them on target … well that is always the fun challenge.
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Re: Old lubed bullets

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Just heat them up as in pan lubing without lube, the old lube will melt and you can reapply the new lube.
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Re: Old lubed bullets

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Go buy a tinfoil baking pan , dump bullets in carefully and add water some deeper than the bullets, then heat til the lube melts off and floats. Let cool, lift off the hardened lube
And pick out the bullets.
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Re: Old lubed bullets

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Or lay them on a paper towel and run a heat gun on them until it melts off.
SharpsTraveler
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Re: Old lubed bullets

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Was thinking along these lies too.
Gonna be cooking some bullets.

Now when the kids ask what's for supper ...
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