I'm getting into bullet casting. So far I've gone the Lee route, to keep expenses down.
Got a question about lubing with Liquid Alox:
Is this stuff supposed to get hard? So far, on bullets I've lubed with Liquid Alox, the lube has stayed tacky. This gives the bullet a tendency to pick up crud if you're not careful. Also, lube tends to get pushed off the bullet and onto the cartridge case during seating (or it's picking it up from lube that's accumulated in the seating die), or while the rounds are sitting loose in the box.
While testing a batch of handloads today, I noticed that the cartridges were positively grubby, presumably from the bullet lube. I had some feeding problems I attribute to this.
Short of springing for a lubri-sizer (which I may yet do, eventually, cash permitting), is there an effective fix?