RKJ, you’ve really made an excellent point. The idea that “you just shake your bullets in this fancy powder, then cook ‘em for a while, and you have shootable bullets” just seems too darn simple.
There are obvious details that need attending to, like the temperature and length of time to cure the PC, and tricks to get smoother coverage, but the hardware seems to be the complex part. And from what I am getting here, as well as from other sources, the only complex part is “make sure it gets hot enough.” The rest (parchment paper, silicone sheet or just a rack, for example) is literally just details.
But as a really seriously noobie at this, (and as someone who has plenty of experience at demystifying some pretty mysterious stuff*), I’ve been trying to collect the right guidance and file it away in some sort of orderly manner. And that has been a challenge; how much of what I’ve read has been “it’s worked for me,” and how much has been “it really has to be this way”?
And finally, being located in “the slow-bake oven of the US,” also known as Central Texas, I have a number of challenges for actually DOING any of this, since the weather has to somewhat cooperate. So I have probably too much time on my hands, which means I probably overthink the details a lot.
*I spent a LONG time as an electronics instructor in the USAF, and since retirement I became an occupational therapist (NO, I won’t help you get a job
), treating people with life-changing injuries and illnesses. Demystifying stuff is one of my daily tasks.