Somewher on here someone gave the recipe for ye ol’e slippery stuff for a punch lube but i couldent find the thread again to give credit to ya 

well i made some and i just want to say wow this stuff really works incredable 

thanks to you oh master of punch lube

1 part molibdanum dysulfide powder

3 parts graphite powder by weaight 

just enough water to make a paste and jus a dab of dishsoap to break surface tension

bottomed out a 1/4 round punch in 1 hit in 1/2 plate granted i was using a #5 flypress but the punch came right out and the steel was not held down

if you havent tried it you should

enjoy

du

Sounds like a workable lube. Being water paste I suspect it sticks to the punch when you dip it and it dries. Oil or grease based lubes sometimes  melt and wipe off. 

Have you tried powdered lithium? 

Believe it or not I find common auto shop "anti seize" works darned well for punch lube but it tends to get on every darned thing.

Frosty The Lucky.

I have a tin can full of beeswax and graphite that sits in a convenient holder on my anvil stand when I'm punching. Hit, hit, dip, hit, hit, dip, repeat as needed. The heat of the punch melts just enough lube to coat, and the main supply is solid to the touch when not in use.

I havent but regular antisieze is a moly based lube so i can see it working well and i agree evry time i work on a car that stuff gets evrewhere

 

the slippery stuff will turn anything you get it on black but i only used a tiny dab wiped on the punch 

Ayup, that's antiseize, put a dab on a bolt and it takes forever to get it wiped off your elbows. We used it on casing and drill rod so we could break them lose and unscrew the stuff. Dry joints drill rod don't break free though you CAN break them. . . the bad way that is.

We used copper coat Antiseize, I still have cold weather gear that's stained with it. I use it to lube the guides and link arms on my power hammer, works WAY better than grease or oil and it's super sticky so it doesn't drip or sling. I bought the stuff in a spray can with the little squirty tube so I can fire it right in the oiler holes. The old Little Giant LOVES it's Antiseize . . . Well I do anyway and I get final say. 

Frosty The Lucky.

Well i dont suppose it will wander to the store with your credit card to buy its own lube . 

 

If it did i think the cleark woud just run 

 

"That spray can is trying to shoplift! SEIZE IT!!!"

[Spray can just laughs.]

[Spray can sprays lube on the floor to prevent chase and makes a speedy getaway]

"Wow, that was one speedy lube."

They bought the stuff by the 5 gallon bucket in the oil patch and many a pair of carhartts had it as their primary colour.

Thanks to some suggestions from my local ABA members I have been playing with mixtures of both bee’s wax/graphite powder and Dish detergent/graphite powder mixed into a nice slurry.  I have Much Better results with the Dish soap/bee’s wax 

I've seen an improvised super-cheap/easy solution of a mix of wax (bee's or paraffin), coal dust, and swept up forge scale. I tried it - Seems to work well. 

 except the scale ingredient.

It isn't magic, it just keeps tools from sticking and that's technique as much as any special lube.

Frosty The Lucky.

I'm not sure what the scale is supposed to add to the mix or if it actually detracts from it, but they use it. 

But I could probably substitute nose hair clippings and it would do the same thing. 

Hair of nose, scale of newt, tug on your leg. Yeah it works perfectly so long as the horn is pointing north and you tongue is in your cheek. Well, somebody else's cheek if you're lucky.

Frosty The Lucky.