What could I add to my alloy to make it pink in color. My GD wants some pink 30-30 boolits for hunting. Just wondering. Mark
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What could I add to my alloy to make it pink in color. My GD wants some pink 30-30 boolits for hunting. Just wondering. Mark
Well, not exactly what you asked for: http://www.ares-gun.sk/?lang=english
I wonder what would happen if you added pigment into LLA? Would it still function as it should? Could you add enough pigment to make it opaque without effecting the LLA's lubing abilities? If that could be done, then there's your answer!
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I hope I don't get smashed for this because I'm just guessing here. Use some pink nail polish on the bullets
Maybe an ATF based lube. Show her they are pink inside the bullet case.
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Granddaughter.
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Grand-daughter? Just a guess.
Get a bottle of Testors hobby enamel from the craft store in the color you desire, and paint the noses after loading. Shouldn't hurt anything. One of the moderators used bake-on leadhead jig paint on a batch of boolits as a lube experiment, he had no problems shooting them as I recall, and he did the whole boolit.
Gear
Beat me to it, Giz!
Gear
i used to paint the noses of my dummy rounds bright orange for doing dry firing practice at home - the paint would last quite some time before it started to chip
Add some copper to your alloy. I made pink boolits fifty years ago. Tougher and harder than I needed. Would work well in the 30 WCF.
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How did you do it? I've dissolved solder tinned copper into alloy containing tin but couldn't repeat the exercise.Add some copper to your alloy.
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I used babbit bearing metal containing a lot of copper. Melts right in.
The area I live in is a rich hunting ground for old logging and sawmill machinery and the poured bearings are what you want.
I know a young eager scrapper and I ask him to look out for that which I want. Get all kinds of heavy metals from him.
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Stand a batch of boolits, after sizing and lubing, on their bases on newspaper and spray
paint a couple of coats of pink paint. Should work fine and please the GD with her
SPECIAL boolits.
Bill
If it was easy, anybody could do it.
While I haven't done it, I've seen pictures of some pretty nice boolits that have been powder coated (painted) and then baked in a toaster oven. Pick your color - and they look real professional and shinny and pretty. Guaranteed to impress!
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Thanks for the ideas. My Granddaughter doesn't ask for too much. Plenty of things to try. I posted a picture of her a while back shooting. She decided she needs one of my Marlins. Doesn't like the feel of a Winchester.
Thanks, Mark
If you use nail polish try HOT pink! Lite colored pink doesn't show up much. Know from experiance.
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I color code bullets frequently to identify different test loads.
I do it with sharpies. Don't know the thickness of the dried color, I can't measure it.
Paper patch pink.
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