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danr
01-12-2014, 06:40 PM
hello everyone, i've begun powder coating my own as well. after shooting a few and checking the results, i was fairly impressed. now i'm planning to do some loads for jacketed. then i began thinking more in the direction of treating them as jacketed. with that said, i did a little test with my powder coated projectiles, and tossed some into my lead melting pot to see just what kind of temps freight harbor powders can deal with. i was impressed to see that the lead melted right out of the powder coat, and the powder coat didn't melt or burn. but this raised some questions at the same time.

when sizing your powder coated projectiles, do you size them for cast or jacketed and why?

if they can be treated as jacketed projectiles, they can handle the heat, then why size them as cast .001 over?

really, this powder coating stands to put swaging out as old tech if it really can hold up to higher pressures. then i kinda wonder what they do on impact. maybe its time to break out the ballistics gel?

thanks,
Dan

danr
01-12-2014, 10:54 PM
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prickett
01-12-2014, 11:28 PM
You are off to a great start!

I size according to cast specs. Never crossed my mind to do otherwise - though it might work just fine. Since I only have one size sizing dies, I'll probably just continue to use them.

If you have several sizes, how about running a test and letting the rest of us know your results?

danr
01-12-2014, 11:34 PM
that's what those are, they are test rounds for the next round of tests. i have 100 rounds of each caliber, 45, 40, 380, 38spl all sized for jacketed and loaded for jacketed with red dot.

danr
01-12-2014, 11:36 PM
i gotta say, for as easy as it is to powder coat, if they do ok at jacketed loads, then it really stands to put swaging out of business.

the costs involved to start powder coating is near nothing compared to swaging.