hickfu
10-08-2020, 09:46 PM
Although I said I was done with S&B, pistol bullets are only shot short distances to I will only be ESPCing rifle bullets. Today I was going to powder coat the 120 lbs of 124 gr 9mm bullets I cast in the last week but I just couldn't imagine using my old Cool Whip container to do that...
So, I found a hexagon shaped jelly bean container from Costco
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It works perfectly in my hexagon shaped tumbler (with a towel rapped around it)
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I put 1.5 big teaspoons of powder with around 300 to 400 bullets, put the lid on the tumbler and let it go for 10 or so minutes.
I have OCD so there is no way I could pour the bullets out into a wire basket to bake and then see all the places that the bullets stuck together so I went to the thrift store and picked up a plastic sieve and bowl to pour the freshly powder coated bullets into.
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I then shake up and down a couple times to get the powder to go out the bottom and them pour out onto a cookie sheet covered with Non Stick aluminum foil. Here's where my OCD gets me.... I pick them up with tweezers and place them on their base on another foil covered (smaller cookie sheet, that will fit into my little toaster oven)
While one batch is cooking, I work on placing the PC'd bullets on the next one and run more in the tumbler.
I went through 38lbs of 9mm today with my Blue powder from PBTP,
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Tomorrow I think I will try Red.
So, I found a hexagon shaped jelly bean container from Costco
269059
It works perfectly in my hexagon shaped tumbler (with a towel rapped around it)
269060
I put 1.5 big teaspoons of powder with around 300 to 400 bullets, put the lid on the tumbler and let it go for 10 or so minutes.
I have OCD so there is no way I could pour the bullets out into a wire basket to bake and then see all the places that the bullets stuck together so I went to the thrift store and picked up a plastic sieve and bowl to pour the freshly powder coated bullets into.
269061
I then shake up and down a couple times to get the powder to go out the bottom and them pour out onto a cookie sheet covered with Non Stick aluminum foil. Here's where my OCD gets me.... I pick them up with tweezers and place them on their base on another foil covered (smaller cookie sheet, that will fit into my little toaster oven)
While one batch is cooking, I work on placing the PC'd bullets on the next one and run more in the tumbler.
I went through 38lbs of 9mm today with my Blue powder from PBTP,
269063
Tomorrow I think I will try Red.