hickfu
10-21-2020, 10:42 PM
I picked up a Convection oven at a local thrift store last weekend and posted that it went way higher then the temp I set it to. The general consensus was that it would level out after 15 or so minutes. Well its a good thing I didnt put my bullets in today with it set to 400.... It went up to 550 and after 30 minutes or so it came down to around 510.
I played with the oven over 3 hours watching what the temp did at any set temperature.. It was consistent at about 110 degrees hotter then the dial temp. I had to set it to 300 to get it just over 400 degrees, I could hear the heater kick on and the temp would rise 40 degrees and after a few minutes it would settle back to 405ish.
I guess this is why it was at a thrift store.... The person probably kept burning dinner with it
At least now I can use the oven, I just have to set it to 300* to get 405*
Another thing today, I was going to finally use my trays that I riveted the cases to to spray PC on some 308-165gr bullets but found that none of the trays will fit into either of my ovens [smilie=b:
so I tumbled 750 308 bullets today with some Silver that I got from Conditor22 and put them on a mesh screen and then into the oven.
269893
269894
About 750 PC'd bullets for the 300 Savage
269890
They look more gray to me but still good enough.
Now I am melting the lube off my old bullets so I can PC them.
Here are some 44 Mag 265gr ready for the toaster oven
269891
And then out of the oven, ready for acetone and then PC
269892
This will save me a ton of time, I was going to re-cast all my 45/70 and 44 Mag bullets...
I played with the oven over 3 hours watching what the temp did at any set temperature.. It was consistent at about 110 degrees hotter then the dial temp. I had to set it to 300 to get it just over 400 degrees, I could hear the heater kick on and the temp would rise 40 degrees and after a few minutes it would settle back to 405ish.
I guess this is why it was at a thrift store.... The person probably kept burning dinner with it
At least now I can use the oven, I just have to set it to 300* to get 405*
Another thing today, I was going to finally use my trays that I riveted the cases to to spray PC on some 308-165gr bullets but found that none of the trays will fit into either of my ovens [smilie=b:
so I tumbled 750 308 bullets today with some Silver that I got from Conditor22 and put them on a mesh screen and then into the oven.
269893
269894
About 750 PC'd bullets for the 300 Savage
269890
They look more gray to me but still good enough.
Now I am melting the lube off my old bullets so I can PC them.
Here are some 44 Mag 265gr ready for the toaster oven
269891
And then out of the oven, ready for acetone and then PC
269892
This will save me a ton of time, I was going to re-cast all my 45/70 and 44 Mag bullets...