simple Hi-Tek coating

[Ausglock]

Joe, is the tru blue a metallic?

No......

[mozee]

You can, But why not pre-warm the next tray of bullets to enter the oven by standing the tray on top of the oven? It is free heat to warm them first. Or use a fan heater like I do..

Ausglock, can I use this method to dry my coating? That is lay them on top of the oven? If so what kind of time should I be looking out for?

With your fan heater, how many trays are you drying at a time? Do you just lay them in front of the fan? If so, for how long?


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[Ausglock]

Ausglock, can I use this method to dry my coating? That is lay them on top of the oven? If so what kind of time should I be looking out for?

With your fan heater, how many trays are you drying at a time? Do you just lay them in front of the fan? If so, for how long?


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Yep... just place on top of the oven on spacers.


This is my fan heater blowing warm air down onto 2 trays at a time.
As the top 2 trays go into the oven, the next lot of trays move up a shelf.
easy. The drying rack is an old Smiths Chips display stand.

[Petander]

Really nice trays,how,where?

[HI-TEK]

[QUOTE=Ausglock;4816451]Yep... just place on top of the oven on spacers.


I love the knobbly knee and shorts look.

After seeing his reflection on oven door, my eyes must be playing up as I can see 3 different Green colours.....

[Tazza]

[QUOTE=HI-TEK;4816472]

Yep... just place on top of the oven on spacers.


I love the knobbly knee and shorts look.

After seeing his reflection on oven door, my eyes must be playing up as I can see 3 different Green colours.....

That's just retina damage from seeing his legs in shorts :P

[Ausglock]

I'm gunna send the drop bears to visit you pair of clowns.

The baking trays are Stainless steel perforated plate. 12"x12" with a 10mm double bend on the edges.
The coating/drying trays are black steel perforated plate of the same dimensions.
The stainless is best for baking. I do not bake on coating trays or coat on baking trays. helps to keep everything orderly.
The different greens are camera/light/angle issues.

As for the legs... If you have it, flaunt it.....yeah baby...

[Tazza]

I'm gunna send the drop bears to visit you pair of clowns.

The baking trays are Stainless steel perforated plate. 12"x12" with a 10mm double bend on the edges.
The coating/drying trays are black steel perforated plate of the same dimensions.
The stainless is best for baking. I do not bake on coating trays or coat on baking trays. helps to keep everything orderly.
The different greens are camera/light/angle issues.

As for the legs... If you have it, flaunt it.....yeah baby...

https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/image...opbearcub3.jpg

As for the legs, please don't, think of the children!

[Petander]

I did some water hardening tests some time ago to use more pure range lead and less precious WW or lino.

The bullets got two normal coats,then I sized them and coated one more time. I let them cool,then another day I baked them for an hour and water quenched. 50WW/50 Pure becomes about 14 BHN.

Now that I got a new trap it's easy to observe what's going on. It's all steel so these 357 bullets have had it pretty hard. But I like what I see.

[Stephen Cohen]

Petander, I think you pictures pretty much show how Hi-Tek holds the cast together on impact. I also had good luck with range scrap but I knew where the sillywets shot all those Linotype cast into the berm. Oh nice little snub. Regards Stephen

[HI-TEK]

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Stephen
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[mozee]

Hi-tek

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[HI-TEK]

Hi-tek

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mozee
I sent you a reply. Await your reply....

[Ausglock]

Get a room.....lol

[dansedgli]

Got my trublu today thankyou very much.

Some bullets are drying right now.

[Ausglock]

Got my trublu today thankyou very much.

Some bullets are drying right now.

Woohoo...

just watch the temp. You will be fine.

[dansedgli]

Woohoo...

just watch the temp. You will be fine.

I've got a pid, seems to be little difference between 190 and 180 degrees. I was baking zombie green at 190 and getting some hot spots so tried lowering it for trublu.

They are good enough for me.

[HI-TEK]

I've got a pid, seems to be little difference between 190 and 180 degrees. They are good enough for me though.

They look over baked, Some even look blackish.
I don't know if it is lighting or not.
I suspect that they were far higher than 190C and for prolong period.
Coated projectiles need to get to 180C and, afterwards stay there for another 2 minutes. If your oven is PID controlled it really does not explain the range of colours you achieved with the baked coatings. (Is your oven fan forced?)
Ausglock had these stay blue when they left oven, and load was 195C after baking.

[dansedgli]

Yep its fan forced. Would baking for too long at 180 make them darker too?

I've been doing 11 minutes but ill try less time tomorrow or Wednesday.

My zombie greens have always been a little brown at 190 for 11 minutes but I havent really spent any time fine tuning the colours. They work fine and they are just for me.

[HI-TEK]

Yep its fan forced. Would baking for too long at 180 make them darker too?

I've been doing 11 minutes but ill try less time tomorrow or Wednesday.

My zombie greens have always been a little brown at 190 for 11 minutes but I havent really spent any time fine tuning the colours. They work fine and they are just for me.

dansedgli
I suspect that your load after 11 minutes is higher in temperature than you think.
That is why your colours are getting a Tan appearance.
Do you have an IR temperature gun? It would be very useful to know what is actual temperature of load when removing it from oven. I suspect 11 minutes is much too long, especially if radiant heat may also play a contributing role.
The variation of colour in same tray is telling me that you have not gotten even temperatures inside your oven. If Heating element can radiate heat, the load at specific areas can get much higher than set temperatures. That is why possibly you are getting Tanning to some and not all.