Powder Coating Bullets >>> (ULTRA LOW HEAT) <<< ELVIS AMMO Method

[Conditor22]

Nice tutorial, I'll need to put that on my list of things to try.

I've found that some PC's will not stick together piled up after a full bake.

What brand and color of PC did you use on this test?

[Onebad06vtx]

Smokes powder and powder by the pound are the same powders.
It cures at what they say and not any less temp. PERIOD!

[Chargerboy72]

Hi, it is Eastwood.
Hotcoat Powder Coat Ford Light Blue - Item #10145
I have only tried this and the semi gloss black which didn't work that well - no leading but nowhere near as good a finish.

[Chargerboy72]

I use Eastwood and I don't understand why you think that I'm not curing at the correct temperature?
I use Elvis's method so the bullets don't stick together and I can handle them without tweezers or losing powder coat and then I bake them again for the recommended time at the recommended temp - the only reason to partially bake them is so you can handle them.
And here are some used examples - material loss is because they are soft range scrap and shot into sand between 25 and 10 metres.
But hey - you can do whatever you want - I don't like spending the time to stand them up but it produces the best results and if I don't like doing that I sure as @#$% wouldn't spend time with tweezers etc when the powder coat is in powder form on the bullets - tried that just once.

[Conditor22]

Chargerboy72 I see no problems with a short bake than a full-length bake according to the manufacturers' specifications.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...PC-long-enough

ASBBDT is still a new process and there is a lot to learn. There's not a lot of history of ASBBDT.

I know from some short term tests that boolits that are not properly cured will react to some smokeless powders where PC that is cured to manufacturers specs doesn't. I don't have enough data to back it up with pictures and figures. My thought on the matter is that I want to do the best I can in reloading and baking to manufacturers specs is cheap insurance.

About your boolit pics, I thought that softer boolits usually mushroom and stay together.

[Dragonheart]

My apologies , you are correct 200C is just over 400F. My rant was intended for the very popular YouTube undercured drop method videos and mistakenly misread the temp on your final curing. I can see how your partial cure two step method would make an easier to handle less fragile coating. I will give your method a try and see if it speeds up the process.

Since I use a tumbler made for purpose and preheat the bullets before tumbling my coating is already much less fragile and more even than just shaking the bullets in powder & BB's. However, using tweezers is the slowest part of my operation and so far I haven't found anything faster and still end up with a uniform coating and a flat base, but your method may do that as the powder will flow again on the final cure.

[lightload]

upping the playback does wonders for this

He talks faster than I do.