Wax comparison testing

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igolfat8

igolfat8

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So being bored with this pandemic shut in stuff, I cleaned a tin of 34 grain JSB King Heavies using Naptha and allowed the pellets to dry on a towel. Then I warmed the pellets with a heat gun and coated half the tin with Finish Line Bicycle Chain wax with Krylon and then used Pledge furniture polish on the other half of pellets from the same tin. After they were dry, I shot 20 shots at a time and cleaned barrel between waxes. Both shot within 5 FPS average but one had noticeably better accuracy. I suppose it could have been the nut behind the scope but it’s interesting enough for me to do additional testing. Has anyone else done any side by side testing like this and if so, were your results similar?
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I believe you have to test different products and exercises to see if the net results produce a gain, and if so then, it should be done.


Yes. I did some lubing and not lubing pellets shooting from an AA S500 and even made a short video.

I’ve also done it with other guns, calibers and other types of lubes with mixed results. With these mixed results and going forward I plan to only clean and lube pellets when a given combo of guns and ammo produce less than expected results to see if any improvement can be achieved. 


I also have weighted, sized, inspected and rolled pellets to see if those efforts made a difference also with limited and various results. I’ve decided against burning candles, incense, and playing New Age music in the presents of the tins.

Anymore, I just take ‘em out of the tin and put ‘em in the breech. 






 
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I heated the pellets pretty warm before applying each product and felt that I got an even coverage of both waxes. The bicycle wax felt waxy after it was dry, like a soft wax, kind of almost tacky and gummy to the touch. On the other hand the Pledge coating was much slipperier feeling after it had dried. The waxed pellets were dull looking while the Pledge left the pellets shiny looking. After I had dumped the pellets out of two clean tins there was quite a sticky residue in the bike wax tin while there was hardly anything on the Pledge tin except some small round beads of what looked like water? Both products were quite thin and almost water like consistency when they were applied but differed substantially after they dried,
 
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FYI, Earlier I had stumbled on an article here in the archives talking about waxing barrel bores and I did that on all my rifles, and PB pistols a few days earlier. I didn’t have any HARD Trewax as was mentioned (perhaps by you) in the thread but I did find some Mother’s carnuba paste car wax in my shop so I used that. I’ve not shot my PB pistols since waxing and only one air rifle so far, the .25. I did notice that my groups were quite small starting with the very first shot after the barrel waxing whereas before it would take several pellets before the groups began to shrink so I see the bore waxing as an obvious benefit.
 
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NEITHER a HARD wax that for a lot of barrel work gets applied to a lapped / polished & super clean barrel bore. It fills the micro surface imperfections and reducing fouling tendencies. IMO after years of doing both, feel the wax on pellet is just no where near as effective.



JMO tho & your mileage may differ.
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I have some Permatex valve grinding (grease) compound. I assume something like that is too coarse for lapping a barrel? Is MInwax Paste Finishing Wax okay for use on the bore after it's been cleaned? Says it has Aliphatic Hydrocarbons in the spec sheet.
 
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Only used the HARD TreWax product that is commonly used on hardwood flooring being heavy in carnuba solids. A polishing wax for auto finishes, metal, marble surface or such IS NOT THE CORRECT product IMO.
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What product/products do you recommend for lapping the barrel and which process to do it correctly?
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As a professional tuner ... I reserve the right to not disclose the finer details of the procedures and products used in the prep. ... Sorry.
 
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I was just thinking of keeping a saucer of chainwax near to dip these darts in when playing when I came across this post. I am shooting through rifled barrels, ($125-160 brand new pistols).
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How long (how many shots) do you think until theres a noticeable difference in accuracy? And should I use a harder wax, say like a candles wax to extend the barrel life from scoring and not matting down the tail hair? Or don't worry about it. Thanks. 
 
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What are the darts made of? Does a magnet stick to them? If so then I would not shoot them in any rifled barrel that you want to last.
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Those darts are made of steel and were designed to be used in smooth bore barrels...Darts were very popular back in the 60's after Crosman sold a pistol (smooth barrel) that came with 6 of these darts, some pellets and BB's for $9.95 US...It was named "Marksman" and it shot all three with OK precision at 10-15 ft., this gun was designed for indoor use but most of us used them outdoors.

Regards,

AZ

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