So when I joined up a couple of years ago my team commanders tarted me off with a tub of "Len's Lube". It's very mushy stuff, almost the consistency of petroleum jelly.
When I made my first batch of lube from Crisco/Beeswax, I added vegetable oil until I ended up with something a little harder but still soft. This has lasted me until now.
Tonight I made my second batch of lube.
I took a 1 pound can of Crisco and melted it. It rendered 2-1/3 cups of Crisco by liquid volume. I poured it back into the can it came from, and it was about 1/8" from the top full. I poured in some olive oil until it was full to the top.
Then I melted down the beeswax until I had 2-1/3 cups of beeswax by liquid volume.
I mixed the Crisco/oil and beeswax thoroughly together, and then poured into a tupperwear dish to solidify.
It is quite hard at room temperature. When you pick up the finished "brick" of lube and tap it on the counter, it sounds like wax.
It seems slightly harder than the period-correct recipe I made up of 1:8 tallow/beeswax.
How hard should my lube be?
Steve
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