Cardinal Hammer white and cardinal gloss black 50/50
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Cardinal Hammer white and cardinal gloss black 50/50
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Last Powder coated.
CW
Powder coated boolits for the first time today, nothing to it. 200 with HF powder, 200 with Eastwood. Eastwood powder is worth the price difference.
Awesome setup!
Got an oven for Christmas. Ordered powder today. Bought a temp read out and tested/marked the oven dial. Thanks to Smoke for the tips. I'll be ready to try it out when the supplies arrive if I can find some giant tweezers...
Just finished reading all 128 pp of this thread. You guys have done some beautiful work! Apparently HF has discontinued the Red and Yellow powders; all I can find in the store or on their site are the Black and White. I don't have an ES gun, so I tried shake & bake in recycled gunpowder jugs, both single-color and mixed (not too great), Piglet with acetone (gloppy), DT in a Lyman 1200, preheated (stuck to each other catastrophically), and DT w/ASBB in the Lyman. I'm baking in a plain toaster oven with silpat cut to fit the tray and an oven thermometer hung inside. I use cartridge box inserts to put the boolits in rows; the 30 carbine boxes let me put 200 to a pan and 38 or 45 boxes = 150/pan. I handle them with dusted gloves and fix any that fall with my saltwater de-hooking hemostat. I'm getting pretty good coverage with both HF MB and MW, but 20 minutes after they turn glossy at 400*F sometimes makes a few in the middle of the tray seizing to the silpat and getting destroyed when I knock them into the quench bucket. Next batch, I'm going to bake them at 25 or so degrees cooler for the same time and see if that stops the slumping. I'll also try some nonstick foil.
Before you jump on me, I can't afford an ES gun nor a dedicated convection oven at this point. I will however be buying some powder from Smoke.
I'll move some pics from my phone to the desktop and post them.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed knowledge and experience on this and other threads.
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Rico1791, I buy all my powders from the powder coat store. Which ones are you using?
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If you have a vibratory tumbler you might try this. Myself and AndyC have been experimenting and so far we like what we see. Any bottle with a good screw on lid will work. When you turn on your tumbler the bottles will turn slowly,the vibration and the bullets sliding on the inside of the bottle help to create more static than the shake and bake. Times generally run around five to ten minutes to coat.
If you want to see a photo of the matte blue I have posted one in the test area and one in this section in the powder coat pictures thread.
Rico1791 I am sending you a pm
Looks like you have the aide you need Rico!! Dont ya love this place!!
Good luck!
CW
Thats great man!! Happy to be a small part in that!!
CW
CasterofBullets, you will not get as good a coat when the humidity is high. Just the nature of the beast with powder coat. I will post a photo of some bullets I did today. Where I am at the temp is 26F and the humidity is 90%. The top bullets were vibrated for 5 minutes and the bottom was vibrated for 20 minutes. I could not get shake and bake to stick at all.
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