Speed up alox drying in a low temp oven?

[ghh3rd]

I wondered if anyone has tried putting freshly alox tumble lubed boolits in an oven on low (about 170 degrees). I just tried it with a small sample for 15 minutes.

They don't feel tacky, and I can't see the lube like I can on boolits that dry slowly. But they still feel 'rubbery' when when I rub my fingers over them.

Has anyone tried this? Did they work Ok without leading?

Thanks,

Randy

[Shiloh]

Actually I have heated them up in the oven slightly BEFORE lubing with alox. Then use wamed alox. A few hours in the sun on a warm day works well also.

Shiloh

[oso]

So I guess you are or a going to be a bachelor? SWMBO won't even let me coat boolits with LLA in the house.

[cohutt]

Put them in a cardboard box with a 75 or 100 watt light.

Kind of a caster's "easy bake oven, does the trick and evaporates some of the solvent leaving alox coating behind.

[BCB]

Yep, I sure have and that is the only way I dry Alox coated boolits.
I put the unlubed boolits in a baggie and add heated Alox to them. The heated Alox flows better and I get better coverage. I then place them on a wet newspaper that I have put on a cookie sheet. Put them in the oven at around the temperature you mentioned or a bit higher for 15 minutes or so and then turn the oven off. They slowly dry in a few hours. I know it is labor intensive, but I do it with the boolits that I ain't shootin' hundreds at more setting. Good-luck...BCB

[DrNick]

Buy an old food dehydrator...you know: the ones that stack up and they make banana chips in. I bought one at a yard sale for $5.00 and use it without the heat...just circulating air. Boolits are dry in a matter of hours.

[revolver junkie]

i use compressed air does a pretty good job 1-2 min of air blasts and maybe 30 min later an ther dry.

[mooman76]

I set mine in the garage in front of fan.

[ghh3rd]

Looks like there really are lots of ways to skin a cat.

[Bret4207]

To get rid of the end result tacky/rubbery feel just dust them with graphite powder, molly powder, cornstarch- something like that.

[Hang Fire]

No need for such in this part of AZ, low humidity and hot sun works fine, they are sticky free muy pronto