simple Hi-Tek coating

[kweidner]

Gunoil, that has been a major problem here in Missouri. The plant has been sued by the local residents for lead contamination BIG MESS!

http://www.usaprepares.com/financial...-close-in-2013

???? http://www.manta.com/c/mmcllj7/quemetco-inc

Found a few more. This is listed as secondary....

Hytek any news on when you harder catalysts might be available? Weeks, months? Just curious. really wanting to give some a go. I could imagine the superhard topcoated with extreme 3 would sure be fun to expiriment with.

[gunoil]

What? whats a drop bears? Just wait til next week when the 1050 is running.

[Gremlin460]

Drop Bears are distant cousin to Koalas, slightly larger, they hunt by "dropping" on anything under the tree they hide in.
Usually they drop on roo's or sheep and sink the claws in while on their backs. they then bite and drain blood until the prey cant move and die.
Some campers and hunters have also been taken by these things.
Nasty pieces of work.

[Ausglock]

G'day Grem.
Sorry I didn't ring. We were on a tight schedule and had no spare time.

Drop bears...
http://australianmuseum.net.au/drop-bear

[popper]

And we thought Koalas were teddybear leaf eaters. The same enviro nuts shut down several lead processors here, Exide was the latest. Now the cities found they have to clean up the residual mess - and don't have the money.

[leadman]

Survived the surgery with little pain but no pathology yet. Am home and taking it easy for awhile. Very little nerve damage that is slowly going away. My left eye does not blink with the right and slight drop to the left side of my mouth. Going to have to remember to close the eyes to keep the left eye moist. Doc said all this should go away in a week or so.
Gateway, that Lee boolit I have found is much more accurate with a gas check installed. I may try removing the boattail on a cavity just to see what happens.

[Gateway Bullets]

Leadman, let me know how it works. My customer is a 300 nut and is trying to design a subsonic bullet for the Hi-Tek coating. He is paying for the molds and when they are done I'll start casting for it.

Glad you're doing ok!

[leadman]

Gateway, the Lyman 314299 works very well in my 300, so the 312299 should also work well. I have been shooting the Lee 200gr .309" bullet in my 1903a3 at around 1,200 to 1,400 fps and it is very accurate. I am going to load some of these in my 300 W to see what they will do.

[Gremlin460]

Well first time I shot my casts today. Friend of mine loaded 100 with ADI 3.5gn and 100 with 4.0gn Adi pistol powder.

The 3.5 wont cycle my 92fs well at all but will cycle his 1911 springfield.
Out of 2 mags @ 6 shots each 3 went in the middle fine the rest started to scatter and out of 12 8 keyholed with 4.0gn powder.
Stripping the barrel out it looked like a lead factory.
Total failure of the coating.
In both guns.
Not overly worried at this point as these were the very first ones I coated. When the oven was running too hot.

Next week will run the same test on the second batch coated , these were coated when I had a better idea and control of the cook temp.

Now I have a hours worth of work to get the barrel clean, most came out with 5-6 passes of the copper brush, but I am fanatical about clean and this barrel is not what I call clean enough yet.

Next time Trev.. no probs..
Coffee time.

[Ausglock]

Grem. you got a lewis lead remover?
They are great at cleaning out leading.

I also have 50:50 mix of white vinegar and hydrogen perixide that I swab and leave for a few hours, then pull the Lewis through. clean as a whistle.

[Gremlin460]

Trev shoot me an addy, I will fwd some of the first coated for your opinion, and also some of the coatings done after the temp sensors were fitted..

Be interested in your opinion, these are sized at 358 and the barrel is 356.2 so I doubt its because the projectile was too small. 1.8 thou should be enough crush into the bore don't you think?

[redrockant]

Grem

Shame this message is a day late Trev and I were in Brisvagas yesterday

Ant

[Gremlin460]

Grem

Shame this message is a day late Trev and I were in Brisvagas yesterday

Ant

Let me guess, you could have dropped in as you went to Woodridge and I live 4 mins from Woodridge?

[Ausglock]

Grem

Shame this message is a day late Trev and I were in Brisvagas yesterday

Ant

Ant. I knew. no time.

[PodPeople]

I coated my first boolits the other day with Donnie's dark green. I double coated some Lee TL452-230-2Rs into 45ACP and 45 Colt cases and shot them through my Ruger Blackhawk convertible -- no leading! I also double coated some TL452-200-SWCs. I just got this mold recently and it casts way oversized - 459. When I ran the boolits through my Lee 452 sizing die the coating and some lead was sheared off. I'm going to see if Lee will replace the mold. I'm thinking about recoating these and resizing them. Has anyone had success dealing with oversize boolits by coating, resizing, coating again, and resizing again?

[kweidner]

wow that's huge. Coat, size, recoat. Awful lot of sizing IMHO. Size your 45 colt to 453ish. At $40 buy another and forget about it. .452 is about perfect for 45acp. Colts I like up to .454. Still a ton of sizing. Just curious. What did you measure with? Dial indicators can be off a bit.

[PodPeople]

Just curious. What did you measure with? Dial indicators can be off a bit.

I used a Harbor Freight digital micrometer. The TL452-230-2Rs I cast measured 453. I made both batches in the same casting session.

[Gremlin460]

The time it takes to cast 2000 projectiles is not nearly as quick as it take to re-melt them...

Thought for the day.

[Ausglock]

a smart man. A careful man, will always ensure that quality is paramount to quantity.

[kweidner]

a smart man. A careful man, will always ensure that quality is paramount to quantity.

Precisely why I swage my own .224. Them suckers fly great. I take my time and do it right. I would put my home swage against any factory offering and many benchrest.