Lee Precision 90006 Case Sizing Lube, 2 oz Tube

Over the past several years, I have used this lube for all my reloading. Lee’s instructions indicate you can thin this up to a 50% level. I have been thinning it with alcohol (fuel line dryer from Walmart) just enough to spray it on, or spray it into a large zip lock bag and shake the cases in the bag to evenly apply. This is convenient, clean and economical and has worked fine, until I started to size once fired 7.62×51 mil-spec brass. I was unable to properly size the brass, and it took a ton of pressure to get it through the press. I had real concern about damaging my dies or my press. I then tried the lube straight from the tube, and it worked fine while it was still liquid. Using it like this requires more work, as it left an excess amount of lube on the cases, but is also water based, and you’ll need to clean you dies, head space gage and any other steel items you get the wet lube on or they may rust. I missed cleaning my headspace gage and it was lightly rusted the next day. I may consider something else to use for large mil brass sizing as using the Lee lube undiluted, required cleaning my cases again. In summary, it works fine on 7.62 once fired mil-spec brass straight from the tube, it also works well for my pistol and small rifle sizing using the spray on dilution application process mentioned.