Bag Balm for patch lube

Any of you guys ever try Bag Balm as a patch lube? I have a huge tin of it. Don't know what its ingredients are though. I've heard of it being used to lubricate military weapons for long term storage too. Just wondering if you guys have any experience with the stuff.

It smells pretty good, and is great on my hands after a day in the garden. :idunno:

Might be good for buckskin patches. That's partly in jest, but seriously it might work pretty good.
:hmm:

I agree Mike, the stuff is really great for chapped and cracked hands. And Ranger, I think it might work pretty good too. I don't think there's anything synthetic in it, but I could be wrong. I'm gonna have to try some, next trip to the range.

it is petroleum based.

Thanks Rae, that might change things a bit. :hmm:

Unless they have changed the formula, Bag Balm is lanolin based.

:hmm: pretty tough to wash off ..can't imagine in a gun...... :idunno:

As i recall it is petroleum based, but also has stuff like sulfa in it.

The active ingredients of Bag Balm are 8-hydroxyquinoline sulfate 0.3% (antiseptic) in a petroleum jelly USP and lanolin base.[2]

Bag Balm, in the past, has been documented as containing 0.005% mercury "from ethylated sterols".[3][4] Mercury was once used in many products as an effective antiseptic,[4] although much less commonly today, now that the toxic effects of mercury and its compounds are more widely understood. Mercury is no longer listed as an ingredient in Bag Balm.

My can says:

"8-hydroxy quinoline sulfate .3% in a petrolatum lanolin base."

Since we don't know whether this is paraffin or asphalt based petroleum, I won't jump to any conclusions. I don't worry about a paraffin based petroleum in MLs.

Regards,
Pletch

Nurses been known to lather me up with that stuff as its good for the skin but they are using "UDDERLY SMOOTH" Udder cream on me now....ok let the jokes fly I can take it. :blah:

Never gave it a thought for using it for a patch lube but ya might want to look into UDDERLY SMOOTH too. :haha: :thumbsup:

:shocked2: well that lil update will sure make yer patch wrinkle! :surrender:

I thought I had tried everything possible over the years. But, this is a new one. Don't think I'll try it. Sticky and hard to wash off the hands.

Thanks for the responses, gentlemen. I'm not sure about it now either. Especially if it may be petroleum based. The stuff is really hard to wash off. When I was reading of all its uses over the years I just thought "Hmmmm...patch lube?" But now I'm not so sure. :idunno:

If it turns rock hard at freezing temperatures then I'd would not use it.

It might work. Lanolin is a key ingredient in a lot of home made cast bullet lubes for centerfire pistols.

After a early summer at the beach my wife suffered with bright red cleavage. I got the can out of the medicine cabinet and read the label to her that it says it is good for sunburned teats.


She refused to talk to me for a while. Thought I was offhandedly calling her a cow. City girls!

Nothin will cool down the beach faster than the silent treatment!!
:haha:

This works real well for patch lube also, all natural. I've use it on my White's boots for years. Tried it as a patch lube the other day, no problems, and won't freeze.
http://www.whitesboots.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=29835

Well, I don't know how well Bag Balm works as a patch lube but I learned that I'm getting old.

When we moved to Phoenix back in 1950 from a place in central Iowa my mom must have brought at least a dozen cases of Udder Aid with us.

Every small nick, cut, scrape or abrasion was always treated with Udder Aid.
Whenever I hurt myself the first thing I can remember mom saying was, "Go Get the Udder Aid!".

At the time, I didn't have any idea what the hell Udder Aid was for. I thought it was some kind of special medicine from Iowa that was specially made to treat damaged kids.
Kind of a folksy Iowa way of saying "Go Get The Other Aid". I figured the maker didn't know how to spell "Other".

Of course, later on in my life I found out what an udder was and I was horrified at the thought that my mom had been smearing something made for cow teats on my body!

Anyway, I just Googled "Udder Aid" and found that it seems that it has been relegated to history.
I can buy it but it seems to be sold only in antique stores where they think it is worth a small fortune.

As I write this, I'm wondering what my reaction to Bag Balm as a kid would have been.

I probably would have thought, "NEAT! A BOMB IN A BAG! That's about the neatest thing a kid could wish for and to have it smeared on my body probably will make me explosive! "

On the other hand, I might have thought, "WAIT! No way do I want to be smeared with the stuff I put into that brown paper bag and set on fire on Mrs Reedy's doorstep last Holoween!" :shocked2: