How do you Carry Lube?

[Smokey Plainsman]

Hi gang. I'm mostly wanting to carry it for cleaning, so saliva won't be so good to lube a bore with to prevent rust.

 

[coloradoclyde]

I could tell you what to do and what to use....
but, instead I'll just say find the products you like and a container you like and use that... :v

When I'm at home I can use modern cleaning methods and fancy aerosol sprays.

But, in the field I rely on knowledge, critical thinking and problem solving skills to make due without modern amenities.
That's where most of the fun and good memories are at.

 

[Walker357]

In so far as something to carry it in goes, breakfast at Cracker Barrel, get a waffle and they'll give you a couple of neat little brown bottles with syrup in them. You can even cut the threaded part off if the plastic cap isn't HC enough for you.

 

[coloradoclyde]

I ate at cracker barrel once....It was awful..Like eating M.R.E.s.... :hmm: (maybe that's who makes them)
If I had to eat food like that every day, I would move farther north..... :wink:

 

[FishDFly]

But, in the field I rely on knowledge, critical thinking and problem solving skills to make due without modern amenities.


Yep, experience counts.

 

[Billnpatti]

Wow how clever.

I've noticed responses like this growing in number on this board, ones that serve not to help.

Actually, I think he meant that he used spit to lube his patches. :hmm:

 

[coloradoclyde]

But, in the field I rely on knowledge, critical thinking and problem solving skills to make due without modern amenities.

Yep, experience counts.

You left out the best part of my quote...

But, in the field I rely on knowledge, critical thinking and problem solving skills to make due without modern amenities.
That's where most of the fun and good memories are at.

 

[Artie Peltier]

In my area there are a lot of antique/consignment shops. I’ve found some old small glass bottles that must have come from farm homes or drug stores. No threads on the necks and some with cork stoppers and different colored glass. They are hand made not mass produced. Most can be had dirt cheap a buck or two and have many uses. Art

 

[Grenadier1758]

I have an old brown Lestoil bottle with a wide mouth. No stopper, so I need a cork. I use the 7 parts water to one part water soluble oil. The wide mouth is just the right size to dampen the patch for my ball. Wiping the damp patch across the bottle mouth wrings the excess lube from the patch. Works fine for lubricating my 0.017" drill cloth patch for each shot.

 

[Black Hand]

They are hand made not mass produced. Most can be had dirt cheap a buck or two and have many uses.

Many of the bottles one finds in antique stores ARE mass-produced but also made by "hand". If you look carefully, you will usually find mold lines where the bottles were blown into a mold.

 

[coloradoclyde]

They are hand made not mass produced. Most can be had dirt cheap a buck or two and have many uses.

Many of the bottles one finds in antique stores ARE mass-produced but also made by "hand". If you look carefully, you will usually find mold lines where the bottles were blown into a mold.

Molded hand blown bottles can date back as far as 1800.
If one is concerned with the authenticity of their bottle they can "skin" it with leather to hide its features and protect it from damage, as was done historically .

 

[Idaho Ron]

For years I have recommended Chapstick or Burts Bees lip balm. You can carry it in your pocket. It won't leak. And you can only apply it to one side if you wish. I have used it on blued rifles with my paper patch bullets and it works great.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Did you know that you can buy empty lip balm containers and fill them with whatever concoction you want?....Or reuse an old one....

 

[SgtMaj65]

Great idea! :thumbsup:

 

[coloradoclyde]

Beeswax and olive oil also makes a good lib balm.. Just add in a touch of peppermint oil....

Here's a recipe... https://wellnessmama.com/25459/imitation-burts-bees-lip-balm/

 

[Grenadier1758]

I'll fill empty anti perspirant or under arm deodorant containers with my mix of olive oil and bee's wax. Empty Altoids tins or similar small tins work well for wiping patches when filled with a waxy lubricant.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Altoids mini tin.....Burn the paint off and dome the lid by peening on a block of wood....looks more PC and the domed lid allows room for some patches.

 

[Artie Peltier]

My home is a 100year old home that was a farm. In tearing down an old building used as a chicken and animal shed I located a few of the bottles there. When they also put sewers in and tore up the street quite a few bottles were located. Those bottles were old for sure!

 

[Stumpkiller]

From an old thread: General Altoid's Snuff Boxes
http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/...3/post/1074731/hl/General+altoid/fromsearch/1/

 

[Artie Peltier]

Great idea and thanks!