one shot spray lube

[oldbear1950]

was reading the directions , and since I have old steel sizing dies for my pistol rounds, what do I clean the inside of the sizing dies with?
Since they have no depriming pins is easy to take apart.
Then expand .
I hand deprime and prime all my cases.
Clean again, hand prime, and load.
the only rifle round I load at this time is 45-70

[mehavey]

Clean out with rolled/twisted up paper towel.
Then spray inside with 1-Shot and let dry

(You really only have to do this once)

[44 AMP]

What are you needing to clean out? old built up sizing lube? perhaps some grit embedded in it??

there are a number of good solvents that would work, perhaps even just hot soapy water and a brush might do the trick Maybe just Windex?

dry and wipe with cloth, I would clean it like a rifle barrel and see if that didn't do the trick.

[mehavey]

waxy/cruddy buildup from old lubes.

Again, just spray some 1-Shot on twisted-up paper towel
and tightly run through up/out the die.

All th crud comes with it.

[Shadow9mm]

I use brake cleaner, you could also use alcohol. But you want to strip the metal before applying.

[georgehwbush]

my cleaner of choice is wd-40 it cuts gummy stuff pretty well and doesn't hurt any metal, also prevents rust. it's a good solvent, even if it isn't that good as a lube.

[Road_Clam]

I use a lot of Imperial sizing wax, works excellent as a case lube especially for more robust NATO casings, the downside is it leaves a real residual gooey mess inside my dies. Another +1 vote for cleaning with Brake Cleaner.

[RC20]

+2 for Brake Cleaner

[FITASC]

Brake Cleaner, Acetone, Kerosene, WD-40; and if it is truly only old wax, then using some heat source should melt it and it will flow out, or at least soften enough a Q-tip will clean it out

[totaldla]

Funny thing is that some stuff won't come out with standard chemicals (alox, apache red, shellac). So I think you're better off using a bronze bore brush followed by patches with some oil on them. Hopefully they're not. Rusted.

[Nick_C_S]

+3 (at least) for break cleaner.

[Unclenick]

Time is your friend. Drop the die in a jar full of odorless mineral spirits. Come back a week later and patch it out. By then, Alox will have dissolved, waxes will have become softened and swollen with mineral spirits, and may even have fallen loose. You then patch it out with mineral spirits and apply either your One-Shot inside and a rust inhibitor outside, or just hit the whole thing with a rust inhibitor (LPS 2, Birchwood Casey Sheith, or even just use a Gun Wipe on it).

If you want to go ballistic on it, after the soak, you can put it into the basket of an ultrasonic cleaner filled with Simple Green or Formula 409 and blast it clean, but you'll then want to rinse it quickly in hot water and then boil it for ten minutes in distilled water, and then shake the water off and let the heat dry it and then drop it into water displacing oil or hose it down with LPS 2. WD-40 is another water displacer (the WD stands for Water Displacing), but I find that as it dries off, the surfaces it is on gradually get tacky and attract dust from the air, so I like to take the WD-40 off and apply one of the rust inhibitors I mentioned above.

[lll Otto lll]

Gasoline at 3 bucks a gallon is cheaper than anything mentioned above.
Yes, it’s very volatile and should only be used outdoors with caution.
Brake cleaner is probably the worst because it’s easily absorbed through the skin and goes directly into your blood system.
The safest non-toxic cleaner is Walmart’s olive cooking spray.

[Metal god]

Maybe just Windex?

Was this comedy ? I believe Windex has ammonia in it or at least it used to , brass and ammonia don’t play well together . I would not get Windex anywhere near my reloading equipment.

44 brings up a good point though . If you are trying to clean out old lube etc . There are several gun cleaning solvents that would work . My thought and our question would be do you then have to clean the solvents out so they don’t interact with the one shot ? I don’t mean in a negative way like they create some toxic substance together, but rather if the inside of the die is coated with, let’s say CLP . I can’t imagine the one shot is going to cut through that and adhere to the metal like it’s intended.

I think if I was looking to recondition for lack of a better term an old die . I’d likely start with some sort of CLP or the like. Scrub it out with a brush and then clean that out with acetone or rubbing alcohol or something that leaves no residue behind . After drying I would then apply whatever new base coating to the freshly cleaned metal .

[mehavey]

Hornady 1-Shot (Cleaner/Lube) goes on with/as a solvent carrier.
Spray it in/on to loosen/dissolve previous lube residual, and wipe out.

Wax based residual? Hard/twisted paper towel to get most all out, then 1-Shot.