Texaco hot box lube????

Anyone ever hear of Texaco hot box bullet lube? Supposed to be very good for high velocity cast boolits?????
Anyone????????
Jack

it's all an educated guess,,,, till the trigger is pulled.

the more i find out about shootin boolits, the more it contradicts everything i ever learned about shooting jaxketed.

No better results than some of the stuff being made now. ... felix

Did Texaco design it to be specifically a bullet lube?

No, its actually a railroad item. When a journal box overheats some of these sticks are thrown in to try and keep that car's axle(s) alive until it gets back to the yard.

Make that an OLD railroad item. The cars that had journal boxes and friction bearings are no longer allowed in revenue service. There are some still used for maintenance of way operations but revenue service cars are now all mandated to be equipped with roller/ball bearings and there is no "box" to put lubricant in. I don't know as there is any way to grease the modern bearings either although it wold certainly seem it would be a good thing to do.

So, this would be a synthetic heavy lube/grease made for a certain job in an industrial setting.
Anyone know the composition of this stuff. Just curious.
Jack

Synthetic? Highly doubt it. Hydrogenated something? Could well be to build viscosity on the cheap. ... felix

I have 2 versions of hot box lube here. Both formulations are darn near the same I would think by looking at them as well as using them. Both "heavy greases" contain some sort of "bulky filler" not 100% sure but it does have a mica/gypsum look to the filler. They both work real well on .22, 7mm and 30 caliber castboolits going very fast. Neither does anything that "standard/good" lube formulations will not do however, and they are a bit messy to apply by hand. If one had a bunch of it I would say USE IT, but I would not kill myself looking for some either.

"Happiness is a target rich environment"

Prolly best used for out-of-time revolters having forcing cone compression. ... felix

Thank you fellas. I appreciate the information.
Jack

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