very,very nice boolits MR CATTIVO. nice groupings too. i love the old gold color.
very,very nice boolits MR CATTIVO. nice groupings too. i love the old gold color.
Thanks for your excellent post and pictures. You have done very well in a short time.
With sizing lubes, (oily/greasy types) there is a real danger of cross contamination and it will and can cause you no end of problems with coating adhesion.
SNS casting (thank you for your comments), is referring to a water based lubricant called Aqualube 5000.
This is a very concentrated lube that requires huge dilutions, and very small amounts will form a dry non contaminating surface lube on the coatings that significantly reduces sizing loads, even with harder alloys.
Typical dilution is about 3-5 mls of the Aqualube 5000, is added to one litre of Denatured Alcohol. This well mixed mixture is then sprayed onto finally coated cast, with a trigger plastic spray bottle, either onto collator or separately in a bucket. One small squirt, just barely to wet is plenty. This stuff is extremely slippery and about 1 gram can lubricate about 40-60 square metres surface area if adequately diluted.
Doing rough calculations, if you use about 5mls of Aqualube 5000 concentrate into 1 litre denatured alcohol, then using 1 ml spray onto 250 bullets, this dilute one litre mix, should be able to lubricate about 250,000 projectiles. So a 200gram bottle of concentrate Aqualube 5000 should lube about 12 million projectiles, plus or minus a few.
Once dry, it cannot be removed with any solvents or cleaners, so don't spill it onto the floor, or where you don't want it.
Just a word of warning, this stuff is expensive, but in use, it is extremely cost efficient, and probably cheaper and cleaner that any other lube, and it is a dry lubricating film residue that will lubricate any two surfaces and wont attract dust.
USE VERY SPARINGLY.
Keep up the good work
Hi-Tek.
Last edited by HI-TEK; 02-15-2018 at 11:06 AM.
ElCavitto
You got there quicker than I did. My bullets didn't look that good after casting for six months. Good looking lot. And good looking coating job. Looks like you have the precision for good match ammo.
Love to see targets. They are showing not just the end product but the ability to produce accuracy with it. And they speak much louder that anything else.
I'll add my "welcome to the party" to the others.
While I work at it, it is by God's grace that it happens. So it is best I ask him what, how and when before I start..
Well done mate, very impressive effort. Your tray mesh looks like the same stuff I use - half a world away!
Thank you all for the welcoming replies!
Thank you HI-TEK for the deeper explanation about the background of Aqualube. I've seen it in the US webshop and read about it in this forum but now I'm finally convinced.
My only "problem" is not the price of the Aqualube (totally ok, IMHO) but that my 3 buckets of HI-TEK (15oz each) will probably last for the next 857,3 years and to have only one bottle of Aqualube sent over the ocean alone, no matter which ocean and which direction..., will add three or four times the cost for delivery, customs, etc.. I will instead wait for the next trip of a friend or myself to AU or US and then grab one from there. Anyway, I'm quite curious already now to try this stuff out.
Have a nice weekend you all!
E.C.
I was able to get my first batch coated, baked, and pushed thru my sizing die. Passed the wipe and smash test. I'm wondering if a second coat is actually needed. They look pretty good as is.
I'll give them a second coat tonight and load some over the weekend.
Last edited by shootinxd; 02-16-2018 at 08:21 AM.
I have shot 200 gr SWC out of a 1911 with one coat of Hi-Tek with out any problems but out of a different gun it might not work out.
You could shoot a few and add a second coat later if needed.
Initially I sized after the first coat, but then decided to leave it until after the second (I only do two coats). If you get any contaminants in the sizing die it could affect applying another coat. At least, that's my reasoning (also saves a bit more work ).
Hi all, new to the forum. I just coated some 9mm and 45's with hi-tek, acetone test and smash test came out great, but still had a little leading in the 9mm. But not so much in the 45 cal. I thought the hi-tek coating would stop the leading with cast boolits. Have I done something wrong? I used lead wheel weights and put on three coats. Any advice would be great.
Leading is still possible, even with Hitek coated pills.
Bullet to bore fit is still king. Slug the barrel and size to be 1 to 1 1/2 thou over bore dia.
Barrel throating is also important.
Make sure with the 9mm, that you are not using a Lee carbide factory crimp die. These dies actually crush cast boolits as the loaded round passes through the die to be crimped.
The are fine with jacketed, but a huge no no for cast bullets.
Hooroo.
Regards, Trevor.
Australia
Last edited by skeetdude; 02-17-2018 at 11:45 PM.
Depending on the gun, I run all my 9mm for Kimber, Springfield 1911's and Glock 17 and 34 at .357" Dia
My Para 45 likes .452.
Hooroo.
Regards, Trevor.
Australia
Straight up Clip-on wheel weights leaded in my 9mm, 2 years ago I went to the 92-6-2 mix and had no leading ever since.
I use a FCD and it also gives me no issues either.
Mike.
Don't worry about life, no-one gets out alive.
Thanks Mike,
The problem seems to me, that many users had collected for years scrap Lead from any source so they can produce their own cast at low costs.
Unfortunately, due to the many variable quality/composition/hardness, and other engineering problems, it is almost impossible to advise or resolve, why some fail with using the Hi-Tek coating, and others find success with similar scenario.
Don't worry about life, no-one gets out alive.
Long time no see, Grem.
Where ya been hiding???
Hooroo.
Regards, Trevor.
Australia
Hi Trev!! Life went to hell in a basket, real bad, but I am back on my knee's and soon hope to be on my feet.
At least i am still breathing, the doc's said even that was touch and go... but hey yah play the hand you are dealt.
I see you still teaching newbies how to coat. Easier than falling of a chair... but some make it hard for themselves
Don't worry about life, no-one gets out alive.
Jesus!!!!
Any day above ground is a good day.
See. That is what happens when you don't have daylight saving.
Hooroo.
Regards, Trevor.
Australia
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 |