Cast and coated over 750 .38 boolits, some Zombie Green and some Candy Red. They drop at around .367 and need to be resized to .362. The first few were hard going and needed a bit of effort to...
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Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Cast and coated over 750 .38 boolits, some Zombie Green and some Candy Red. They drop at around .367 and need to be resized to .362. The first few were hard going and needed a bit of effort to...
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Thanks Trev, that's pretty much what I did the first time around, I just got a bit confused when someone mentioned polishing after coating.
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I haven't been here for quite a while as I haven't needed to cast and coat anything due to having built up a rather large supply.:-D I've decided that with Winter coming (so they say, you wouldn't...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Looks promising. I had a couple of 1000's (sold one and keep one for de-priming, fitted with the case feeder) and then a Loadmaster. The LM required a fair bit of tweaking, the boolit feeder arms...
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Given the hugely disparate temperatures for melting lead and copper I'm at a loss to see how copper could combine (fuse?) with lead at lead melting temperatures. It seems to me that any free copper,...
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Beat me to it, definitely worth a try (it works!).
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I've been saving the brass bases from shotgun shells and tried melting some in my furnace, they didn't melt very well and I ended up with a powdery mass (much as bent ramrod found). If I melted...
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Yep, BP is great for fouling pistols! Even with Hi-Tek coated boolits you still need lube to try and keep the fouling soft. If you do try again put a waxed felt wad under the boolit.
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Your experience at pushing the coating to rifle speeds is impressive, and you're to be congratulated at persevering with the testing. It's also natural for people, when starting out, to want a solid...
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Like Avenger, I haven't been on here for quite a while. Several reasons, not the least being that I've got the coating thing pretty well down pat, plus I've got so many boolits coated that, given my...
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I can't speak for PC but I don't see any way that Hi-Tek coating is going to come off if shot into an animal. If hitting it with a hammer won't remove the coating then hunting certainly won't.
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Those simple thermostats are notorious for being inaccurate. As StuBach said a PID is the only way to guarantee accuracy and consistency. If you've got a suitable thermometer to measure the lead...
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Never occurred to me to try that, but yeah, that could give some interesting results given that the coats are usually thin so therefore slightly translucent. I'll have to try that next time I do some...
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:lol: It's easy to get carried away, isn't it? I've got several thousand .38's coated and sized plus a few thousand for my .44-40 but every now and then I cast and coat a few more.:roll:
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:lol: It seems some of us are determined to try and find another use besides boolits for the coating.
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BJK, there are really only a couple of things to watch out for, clean boolits (as you said), temperature control (a bit higher won't ruin them or cooking longer, it will only affect the colour) and...
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I figured that would probably be the case with the stuff Joe gives you. I just hate seeing things being wasted, how I was brought up I suppose (I don't throw things out until they're absolutely...
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Is it just me or does that seem like a real waste?:shock:
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No real problems, I cast 170 for the .38 and 170 of the .429. I still had a slight issue with one particular cavity in the brass mold but even when some didn't want to drop they were easy to...
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A timely discussion regarding the bonded version as I'm about to try it today. I've coated the mold but haven't cured it yet and after getting good results with the 500+ on the sprue plate I figured...
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Should make the rubbish slide out of the bin more easily?:lol:
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I just received some of the mold release stuff from Joe, both the 500+ and the bonded, to see how they would work with my problematic brass mold. I scrubbed the mold with brake cleaner and then...
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I was a telecommunications technician for all my working life, starting with the PMG, and the training they gave us covered most things, including working with mains voltage. I have had an accidental...
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I guess the best thing is to either have a small booth of some sort with an exhaust fan or a gentle breeze wafting from behind.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |