simple Hi-Tek coating

[Gremlin460]

OK someone moved the thread, thought I was going nuts (even more) for a moment.

[Ausglock]

Yep. designed without the groove.

[220]

My coatings should be here this week, ended up splashing out on a breville smart oven. Found the cheapest price I could online and then went and visited my local electrical goods retailer and asked if they could match the price. Didn't have one in stock but will have it in before the end of the week at a matching price.

[Ausglock]

New Accurate Molds 357-168Z
These are for loading 357Sig in 1911/2011 for IPSC Std Div Major power factor loads.

Compared to the Lee 125gr RN


Coated with HI-TEK Kryptonite Green


Close-up before sizing

[jcobb651]

Anyone ever test to see if there is a difference between a frosted coated boolit and a non-frosted?

[HI-TEK]

Anyone ever test to see if there is a difference between a frosted coated boolit and a non-frosted?

Hi,
Just wanted to seek clarification as to what you refer to as "frosted" or "Non-frosted"?
Also, what type of coatings are you referring to?
Generally any coating when sized becomes smooth and shiny, (or at least that is what should happen)

[Ausglock]

frosted or non-frosted makes no difference to quality of the coating or the velocity. As Hitek stated, the sizing process smoothes out the surface and uniforms every bullet.

[jcobb651]

Frosted: when your mold gets too hot and the cast boolits have a "frosted" appearance. Someone had speculated that a frosted bullet may promote adhesion of the HT better than a shiny one due to the shiny one being a smoother surface. I'm using the gold and have had no issues but was just curious if there was a difference in accuracy between frosted and non. Towards the end of my last casting session I noticed most of the ones I was dropping were too hot and were frosted. I separated those out to test for myself but was just wanting to see if anyone had already done any testing.

[gunoil]

hell no! they shoot good.

Dang nice lookin bullets/boolits trevor.

[Ausglock]

Yeah. Tom at Accurate Molds does very good work.

[leadman]

All of my boolits are frosted on purpose. I find fill out is better and the weight more consistent. I have no problems with accuracy at all with the frosted boolits.
Several of my rifles shoot moa or less.

[Gateway Bullets]

All of my boolits are frosted on purpose. I find fill out is better and the weight more consistent. I have no problems with accuracy at all with the frosted boolits.
Several of my rifles shoot moa or less.

I love frosted boolets! The chocolate coated ones seem to shoot better than the vanilla! lol lol lol

[gunoil]

Got my new "spray" can of hi-tek-500 mold lube. I love it. Iam selling that other **** on ebay.

So trevor, u custom ordered that mold/bullet? It turned out great. The one i did with no lube groove shoots great. Those would drop fine with a mrbulletfeeder drop die.

[Ausglock]

Yep. Asked Tom to modify an existing design and it turned out great. Looking at 2 other designs. A 138gr RN and a 150gr RN.

[Balta]

I am also using a no lube grove design bullet in 9 mm made by Mihec...i am using for PC didnt have chance to try HiTek...There ar easy to cast and easy to work with..

[Gremlin460]

Yep. Asked Tom to modify an existing design and it turned out great. Looking at 2 other designs. A 138gr RN and a 150gr RN.

If you take the lube grooves out of a Lee 6 cav 125gn mold , and polish it to 358/359 , then using COWW they drop just under 130gn RN, if that saves you a special mold.

[jmorris]

I posted this in a different forum a while back but this was my first experience with the coating.

After going through the powder coating process and giving copper plating a try, after USPS lost the first shipment, I finally received a new batch of the Bayou bullet coating from Donnie, that he FedExed to me.

What you get is a two part mix and you add acetone, tumble and bake.

I just ran a small batch of 150, 230 grain 45's for the first run.

I mixed 5ml of the color, 5 ml of acetone and 1 ml of the catalyst. Adding about 1 tea spoon to the tumbling bullets and baking at 365 for 10 min. Let them cool and re tumbled them with another tea spoon of the mix and baking for another 10 min.

The tumbler I built is a paint bucket I found at home depot that is sort of D shaped, figured this would work for agitation, and uses disposable liners that are cheap so I don't have to worry about clean up.

I smashed the one at the center of the photo to see how well it stuck to the bullet and there were no signs of separation. Next test is to load them up and see about smoke and leading.

[Moonman]

jmorris,

Nice photos.

I TWICE COATED a few 230 grain 45 bullets last weekend.

Ran them through a sizer.

Shot 12-15 INDOORS, Didn't see much smoke, No leading

all in a 5" "GUNSITE" COLT 1911.

I'm going to try to get a bunch coated and loaded to shoot this Sunday.

So far, so good for me, I like the deal.

I'm sure YOUR tests will far more complex than mine.

Please keep us posted.

[Ausglock]

jmorris.
Nice.

maybe use less mix? It seems to be a bit thick. Or add another 30 bullets to the teaspoon of coating when tumbling.
Good job.
Love your tumbler.
Lathe in the background? Everyone should have a Lathe, Mill and a Mig.

[Moonman]

jmorris,

I used the Trevor Recommended mix of

5 COLOR, 1 CATALYST, AND 7 (SEVEN) ACETONE

For my GOLD COLOR. 230 GRAIN 45 CALIBER RN were coated.

Coat/Bake for 10 minutes (380F) Cool - - - - -- Coat/Bake 10 minutes/Cool.

I use a BREVILLE Smart Convection Oven.

Size them and Load them.

I have some 38 SPECIAL FULL WADCUTTERS that I may try

Coating/Baking twice and LOADING WITHOUT SIZING.

A 38 Special that has .359 cylinder bores.

I'm using lead alloy about 8/9 Brinell. (Cabine Tree Tester)