Coated 40lb today ...

[AlHunt]

I ran 40LB of 9mm through the toaster oven today. While it took about 2 or 3 hours for 8 or 9 20 minute runs, each run only required about 5 minutes of my time to dump out the last batch and coat the next batch. So I spent maybe 45 minutes, total and have about 2100 coated projectiles. I'll probably run them through the push through as I load them.

[MrWolf]

Nice job. I keep saying one of these days.

[cwlongshot]

I did 21# my self yesterday afternoon.

Good job!!

CW

[AlHunt]

I did 21# my self yesterday afternoon.

Good job!!

CW

What caliber(s) did you do? I'm going to do about 13 pounds of 5.56 this afternoon. 1500 or 1600, I think.

[Gunslinger1911]

Wow ! I did a couple hundred 50 cal, couple hundred 357 and maybe 500 9mm yesterday. I THOUGHT I was cookin !

[DHDeal]

I've never bad any idea of the weight that I've coated, to lazy to do the math I guess. I figure I've done 700 or so during an afternoon and that was enough. Gotta stand those rascals up and all.

[AlHunt]

Wow ! I did a couple hundred 50 cal, couple hundred 357 and maybe 500 9mm yesterday. I THOUGHT I was cookin !

Oh, you were cooking. 40LB is my all time world record. Kind of why I had to brag a little.

I started using 6 cavity molds a couple of years back. More recently I switched my pour technique from pressure casting with the mold against the spout to holding the mold a 1/2" down and letting the lead run. Increased my production 4 or 5 times. I've got 5 or 6 thousand bullets cast up and coated in the last few weeks.

Now, about those primers ...

[AlHunt]

I've never bad any idea of the weight that I've coated, to lazy to do the math I guess. I figure I've done 700 or so during an afternoon and that was enough. Gotta stand those rascals up and all.

Standing 700 up in an afternoon is a record in itself. You must have a lot of patience and a large oven.

I bake'em in a pile and slam them in a box to break them up.

[kevin c]

I do HiTek in fairly big batches. With two coats and a 12 minute bake cycle, going 250 to 260 boolits a batch, I can do 1500 to 1700 in a three hour session. I coat as I go, which takes up some of the time between batches. Sometimes I precoat the second after doing the first, saving them for a later session. In that case I use the time in the oven to size the baked second coat boolits.

[DHDeal]

Standing 700 up in an afternoon is a record in itself. You must have a lot of patience and a large oven.

I bake'em in a pile and slam them in a box to break them up.

No, just a large toaster oven. I was putting another tray in as soon as the timer "binged". I only coat with the bullets standing up, so I have a system that works for me to do it as fast as possible.

My normal big PC session is 300-400 and even then I start to get bored. However, when you have all those coated bullets in containers it lools like a job well done (kinda like that big container of bullets in you showed the pic of!).

[Targa]

They look great....which powder coat is that?

[AlHunt]

They look great....which powder coat is that?

Smoke's Translucent Copper. Covers great in one coat, tolerates my haphazard technique. And if I read right, has been changed and is no longer available.

[Targa]

Ah, ok thank you. I will have to give Smoke a call and see if he might have any left in his inventory. Those bullets you coated look outstanding.