Converting lubed boolits to powder coat

[fredj338]

melt them down and recast. It's a lot less work and you will have a clean surface without lube or oxidation for the powder coat to stick too.

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[doulos]

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Do you just throw them in the pot lube and all?

[Targa]

Yep, skim off the crud on top just like anything else. If it were me I wouldn’t do it in my casting pot, I would put them in my cast iron processing pot and reform them into ingots. Well not entirely true, if it were me I would and do just shoot the lubed ones at the indoor range .....

[onelight]

Do you just throw them in the pot lube and all?

The lube will be flux . If I have culls after lubing for whatever reason I put them in a coffee can and flux with them.

[fredj338]

Do you just throw them in the pot lube and all?

Yes sir, it will smoke but you are fluxing too. Its not any diff than fluxing your casting pot.

[onelight]

Light the smoke in the pot it will burn and greatly reduce the smell , it is the most toxic part of casting with clean lead . You are burning the gas given off by the flux.

[mdi]

Has anyone at the range complained about your "smoky" loads? Smoke doesn't bother me (I used to shoot black powder in a revolver!). I have removed standard lube from a bunch of my lubed bullets (C-Red and Speed Green mostly). Since I had a toaster oven to cook the PCed bullets, I just sat the lubed bullets on a paper towel in a shallow pan and heated them in the oven @ 175-200 degrees. Not hot enough to ignite the towels and just hot enough to melt the lube. I then quickly rinsed them in acetone and the PCed them. No mess and the PC stuck quite well...