Powder coat existing bullets

[J. D. R]

So I have a transferable cobray m11 that I want to take to knob creek and shoot in the jungle walk in October to say I at least went before they shut down for good.

I currently have 2000 ish left 125 tc 9mm lead boolits that suck in anything I shoot the. In, due to the fact they are. 356 and super hard. If I can use them I would like to just to be rid of them.

My idea is as follows..... I want to powder coat them using the red powder mix from harbor fright and then size them .357/8 and load them as sub mg fodder in order to avoid leading my barrel and getting some accuracy.

Has anyone done this before and what was your end result?

[Smoke4320]

As long as they are not well oxidized clean them good in acetone then let them dry WELL .. coat

[Kraschenbirn]

Are those boolits already lubed? If so, PC ain't gonna work without removing old lube...which is a real PITA!! (Check out the current thread about removing old lube prior to PC). Also, myself, wouldn't try it with HF Red; in my experience it doesn't yield the best coating on freshly cast boolits, even with proper prep, and I doubt it would would provide a satisfactory result on 'recycled' either.

Bill

[cwlongshot]

Must be REAL CLEAN!!

Done it many times. Cleaner the better.

CW

[Dom]

What worked for me. Placed the bullets on a piece of aluminum foil on my PC oven rack. Baked at 400 dg for about 15 min. 99.9% of the lube melted off. Dumped the bullets onto a sheet of old clean cardboard for excess lube to be removed, rolled them around. Then boiled ( bring to full boil ) bullets in an old pot for another 5 min or so. Lube floats to the surface. Poured that off & boiled once more. At this point my bullets were clean. I PC as normal & they shot perfectly. This method uses no toxic carb cleaner or acetone. I poured the boiling water off into a cardboard box with old news paper in it. That captured the lube residue. Simple. Took about 1 hour total to remove the lube off of 300 bullets I had. It worked.

[charlie b]

Since you are posting in here go the extra inch and order some powder from Smoke. Get the black BB's too if you don't have access to some.

[Dom]

I'm using "smokes " powder & have had no negative issues. Worked for me every time.

[rfd]

Clean off the lube = squeeky clean as described above. HF powder sux, WAY better to use Smokes or Eastwood Ford Light Blue. Water quench right out of the oven to increase hardness, size, load.

[Burnt Fingers]

Put bullets in lead pot.

Cast better bullets.

Coat them.

[JimB..]

Put bullets in lead pot.

Cast better bullets.

Coat them.

This, although I’d add a step to dilute alloy with some soft lead.

[gnappi]

I had a bunch of .40/.45/9mm lubed bullets that I ultimately decided to pc. I boiled them a couple of times skimming off the wax and agitating them while they boiled. Soaked them in acetone, and they PC'd nicely.

Given a choice I'd rather get the wax off than cast them all over again.

[tankgunner59]

I have some HF red that I used before I bought from Smoke. If you plan to use the HF PC my advice is to powder coat them twice before sizing. I have used pills I PC'd with HF red, one coat and two coats. I've never had leading with the HF stuff but I decided to double coat and then size just to be safe.

[Dragonheart]

Years ago I had several thousand lubed bullets I wanted to PC. I tried melting the lube in a low heat oven, it didn't work. I tried boiling, it didn't work. Then I tried an over night soak covered with gasoline and they looked pretty good. I did it one more time and they looked great. Then a rinse in acetone. They coated, cured and shot with no problems.