Originally Posted by
rsrocket1
Why are you doing this? Is your powder coating THAT sensitive to temperature? I've been successfully baking PC boolits with just a $5 dial thermometer oven with a dial timer from Goodwill. After moving, I got a couple of $20 Walmart toaster ovens and they also work fine.
The powder coating shouldn't be temperature or time sensitive as long as you meet the minimum bake temperature for the minimum bake time. For me, anything around 350-400 is hot enough and any time above 20 minutes is long enough. I've baked around 70k boolits this way and haven't had any problems with HF red, Sherwin Williams, or Prismatic powders.
I do have a PID on my Lee 4-20 but that is to balance enough heat to prevent lead from freezing in the nozzle and not so high as to cause excessive oxidation at the high end.