Powder Coating Boolits

[Tonerboy]

Conditor
I like some of those combinations. Thanks for posting the mix's. I'm guessing those are tumbled. I wonder if you would get the same type of spotting pattern if run through a ESP gun? I have been just spraying the base color (say yellow) and taking a pinch of the second color (say black) in my fingers and sprinkling it over the spray before the bake. Works OK but is one more step in the process.

[joe leadslinger]

Did some PCing Lee C312-155-2R, C309-150-F and Lee 120 grn

[Conditor22]

Conditor
I like some of those combinations. Thanks for posting the mix's. I'm guessing those are tumbled. I wonder if you would get the same type of spotting pattern if run through a ESP gun? I have been just spraying the base color (say yellow) and taking a pinch of the second color (say black) in my fingers and sprinkling it over the spray before the bake. Works OK but is one more step in the process.

Try mixing and spraying and let us know

[Phlier]

Conditor22, those look beautiful. Thanks for posting the color key!

Did you happen to try out the Poly Pellets this go around? Also, what do you think about the Sherwin-Williams PC? Any good for shake-n-bake? There's a store close by us...

[Traffer]

Try mixing and spraying and let us know

Conditor, have you ever tried mixing Smoke's Translucent copper with Cardinal Silver?

(obligatory picture, Cardinal silver swaged 45/70 swaged bullets)

[Conditor22]

*** don't have to have pictures on this thread *** I don't have smoke translucent copper, I have Eastwood copper penny.

Try it and show us how it works

[stevo1911]

@phlier can you please provide details on your brass cleaning/polishing process.

[stevo1911]

I have those same poly pellets. They work very well.

[cwlongshot]

314-140 hp

cw

[OS OK]

Here is one of my first HP moulds,

Lyman 452423...

I'm not convinced the blue does anything for them...

These colors were from my early days when I just couldn't get it right...all you fellas that posted beautiful coatings in this forum just kept pushing me to get better and better, changing techniques, equipment and powders along the way.

But they sure work great when you have the blend just right...

The thing about cast HP's and Jacketed HP's is that you can blend your boolit metal to mushroom at the speed your platform safely delivers...with Jacketed you have to make the speed their round is designed for, pretty much fast or it's a no go, especially when you get into the older snubbies and short barrels that may not like and can't safely do the higher pressures of +P & +P+.

[joe leadslinger]

308's loaded and ready to go.

[Conditor22]

I like what you did with the purple

coated these for a friend to load for his wife



for the son's 1903A3

[Phlier]

@phlier can you please provide details on your brass cleaning/polishing process.

I wet tumble in a Frankford Arsenal Rotary Tumbler, using 1 tablespoon full of phosphoric acid (you probably wouldn't need nearly this much... it varies according to how hard your water is, and ours is *very* hard), and two tablespoons of Turtlewax Wash-N-Wax Car Wash. I separate the stainless steel pins out of the brass in a media separator that is full of rinse water that also has the same ratio of car wash in it.

I dry using the Frankford Arsenal Brass Drier on the lowest heat setting. Using heat on wet processed brass will give the brass a "toasted" look to it. No heat, no toast.

Brass that is otherwise clean, but tarnished, just goes into corn cob or walnut media with Tru-Finish Car Polish to shine 'em up.

[cwlongshot]

[DHDeal]

So do the poly pellets create more static than the black bb's? I got good coating with the bb's, but I'm always up for something new/better.

FWIW, my MP 640-432 mold likes to throw bullets that the bb's can just jam themselves into the large hollowpoint. I can flick the bb's out easily enough, but it does slow the rhythm. Maybe the poly pellets won't stick.

[Phlier]

So do the poly pellets create more static than the black bb's? I got good coating with the bb's, but I'm always up for something new/better.

FWIW, my MP 640-432 mold likes to throw bullets that the bb's can just jam themselves into the large hollowpoint. I can flick the bb's out easily enough, but it does slow the rhythm. Maybe the poly pellets won't stick.

I haven't ever tried the black BB's, so can't compare them to poly pellets, but I can't believe that anything could create more static than the poly pellets do. They aren't hard to separate from the boolits, either.

Great pictures, gents... and OS OK, those hollow points are just amazing.

[cwlongshot]

I dont use any “bbs” at all.

CW

[Conditor22]

[stevo1911]

@phlier Thank you for the response.... I will give that method/process a try when I tumble my next batch. Also, good tip on the heat. I will use lowest setting next time as well.

[OS OK]

Your getting awful close Jim . . .