PC vs Traditional Lube Time

[bangerjim]

Glad to hear your "almost coated" boolits do not cause leading. I for one, have never risked it, but it is really nice to know you see no leading problems! This info may allow the lowering of the acceptable level of coating.

I have that stuff on my rain gutters!

Thanks for the info!

banger-j

[flyingmonkey35]

If you are in the rare group on here that does 8-10 thousand boolits/day, then PC may not be for you. (Who can shoot that many anyway!!!!)

But for the casual hobby shooter like me and thousands of others on here, coating a few hundred an hour is just fine!

PC rules. Either BBDT or ESPC.

banger-j

Oh im sure if I was coating that many a day I could come up with some sort of gizmo that would feed the bullets in a tray and bake in a real oven at 2k a time.

[coffeeguy]

Oh im sure if I was coating that many a day I could come up with some sort of gizmo that would feed the bullets in a tray and bake in a real oven at 2k a time.

I'm thinking one of those conveyor-type pizza ovens. Hmm...I can get an assistant...or a lackey...to load the trays, do a quick spray, they roll into the oven, roll out the other end where my other assistant/lackey/boolit boy dumps them into the quenching tank. Then my trained monkeys dry, sort and package them....Oh my, I'm daydreaming again...

[coffeeguy]

Glad to hear your "almost coated" boolits do not cause leading. I for one, have never risked it, but it is really nice to know you see no leading problems! This info may allow the lowering of the acceptable level of coating.

I'd get that 'almost coated' the first few times I tried the Piglet Method...Got some ugly boolits for sure but they worked fine. The higher gloss powders help since they flow more.

[flyingmonkey35]

Why not a automatic bullet hopper. Dumping them one at a time on a converr belt. That goes thru a small powder coating station. That gets a blast from a espc gun (automatic) then down the belt on to a small spiral slow sprial belt in a oven. Then knocked out onto the bucket of water for final quenching.

Yup I've put some thought into this.

[bangerjim]

Why not a automatic bullet hopper. Dumping them one at a time on a converr belt. That goes thru a small powder coating station. That gets a blast from a espc gun (automatic) then down the belt on to a small spiral slow sprial belt in a oven. Then knocked out onto the bucket of water for final quenching.

Yup I've put some thought into this.

But automation takes all the hobby fun out of it! .

Same reason I do no own one of those Dillon contraption.

banger-j

[flyingmonkey35]

If your making 2k rounds a day its no longer a hobby.

[Beagle333]

I'd get that 'almost coated' the first few times I tried the Piglet Method...Got some ugly boolits for sure but they worked fine.

Ahhhhh..... the good ol' Piglet days. They weren't pretty, but they shot just as great as the ones I'm spraying now.

[Mgderf]

I don't cast myself. I've just started reloading as a matter of fact, but I've found someone local to me that does cast and PC's.
The difference in clean-up time alone is enough for me to lean toward the coated boolits.
The fact that my hands stay clean while loading seals the deal.

I'll still use cast, but only if I can't find what I want coated.

[Schrag4]

Maybe you can just PC the inside of the barrel once and then leave the bullets alone! Sorry, I couldn't resist.