almost ready to PC

finally was close to harbor freight and stopped in picked up a pound of HF red PC 5.99

I have my #5 container , cast boolits , and convection oven in the garage already.

tonight or tomorrow stop by Wally world and get me some black air soft BBs

then it is time to Shake and Bake


my brother bought some of the Hi Tech coated bullets from the local gun store for me to load up for his 45 , they were very easy to make work , I am hooked on the concept , just trying to do it for low initial investment.

Good for you! Don't forget the non-stick aluminum foil.

I have been real happy with parchment paper.

i have parchment , we use that for cooking regularly I will just snag some to cook boolits on

by the way , parchment is the answer to how to cook 12 dozen cookies on 3 cookie sheets you just slide the hole sheet off to cool and start loading the next

If you have issues with parchment rolling up on you, crumble it into a ball and then flatten it back out. Works wonders.

Don't forget to contact smoke4320 when you're ready for a better quality powder. HF red is the only powder I have that is hit or miss, works great sometimes, sometimes barely even sticks. I started with red so I can't hate it completely, it got me off the soft and wet stuff....

GCP: I've been having great results using Kitzini brand silicone baking sheets. They are a little thicker and are reinforced better than some of the cheep mats. Dragonheart turned me on to these and I REALLY LIKE THEM! Good luck with your coating. There are enough helpful hints here at Boolits to keep you reading for weeks. GP

I have 3 surfaces I use with equal positive effect
parchment paper
NSAF
silicone mat (ordered one from Wally World and cut it into three pieces to fit my tin trays underneath)
If I let them cool and don't get in a hurry all are great at releasing bullets

my first 119 coated

I had an ice cream tub but when I was at wally last night getting the black air soft bbs by the way the black ones are the most expensive air soft bbs and if I hadn't heard they worked much better than the elcheapo florescent ones I wouldn't have bought them. I picked up pack of ruber made take alongs they are #5 plastic and seem stronger thicker and have good tight fitting lids and are not so deep and narrow as the ice cream tub was.

I used what I though was about 110 boolets turned out to be 120 some cast 2 days ago of air cooled WW enough air soft bbs to cover the boolits , then 1 level table spoon of harbor freight red and maybe 20-30 seconds of shaking the shake seemed to do more than the swirl

I tried the needle nose pliers first they worked ok then i tried a nitril glove , that seemed to work better for me and didn't seem to take any off of the boolits as long as the glove fingers were covered in powder

I got decent coverage there are little marks here and there that didn't seem to get pigment but do seem to have a glossy appearance making me thing they got some coating but not as much an a few more bbs or a few less boolits in a load would result in less of these marks where i think boolits hit each other

smash test was good , it seems like a very elastic material.

after going through the .401 push through sizer the driving bands all look very evenly coated and very smooth

they also load very nicely into cases , I am loading up 50 and should be able to shoot them tomorrow.

if the tests with these go well I can see setting up 3 more of the 88 cent wally world cookie sheets and running 5 of them in a rotation , cooking 10 minutes is about what it seems to take to load a tray and 20-30 minutes later the boolits were cool to the touch I think in an afternoon I could coat a few thousand and be set for a little while well hopefully enough to keep me through winter any how

I really appreciate everyone research into this and sharing it made it possible to be coating for less than 30 dollars the air soft bbs were 15 of that

they shot great I shot some quick off hand 3 inch groups at 10 meters then I started ringing steel at 60 and 77 meters and a shiny clean barrel , no noticeable smoke but obviously I wasn't on the indoor range