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Zip Lock Bag and Gloves = 1st time success! Thanks clocker and idz
Thank you clocker, I tried the Ziplock gallon bag to massage my boolits in red HF powder and white Crossman BB's and the coverage was excellent with a minute or two of gentle massaging. No violent shaking necessary!
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I used a latex glove and dipped my finger/thumb into the powder like dusting a rolling table with flour before rolling dough.
I used idz's suggestion of a glove to pick the boolits up. The glove actually improves coverage. As you pick up the bullet from the nose, gently roll it between your finger and thumb and all bare spots disappear! You can touch the sides where there are any bare spots and they also get covered with powder. Here's a picture of the top of the bullet before and after touching it with my gloved finger.
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15 minutes at 375F and the boolits are ready.
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Coverage looks excellent with smooth sides and no bare spots
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I can't believe how easy this is. Now to load 'em and shoot 'em.
Thank you to all who've contributed to this thread. I read through all 15 pages over the last few weeks and it's been great reading.
My results with latex gloves.....
Okay... tried it. Got some latex gloves. Dumped powder and ASBBs in ziplocks and massaged well. Boolits only took on lightly colored sheen of red or green. (I tried both colors) A lot of silver was still showing. And the gloves only rubbed more off of them, even though I dipped fingers in powder first.
So I dumped all into the CoolWhip bowls and shook good. Then tried lifting out carefully with gloves and smoothing out the boolits while they were standing on the foil. I spun them gently and tried to get a good coat. It just made it spotty. It worked exactly the way my earlier test with nitrile gloves did.
So I dumped em back and tumbled good again and picked out of CoolWhip bowl with sharpened pliers and sat on foil gently. Got good coat again.
Apparently, here with my humidity, in my static level of my work area, the pliers and CoolWhip bowl are still the best/fastest way to get a good shootable coat.
Kinda powdery, ready to bake. Maybe a little too powdery, but at least fully coated. I coulda tapped em once and it wouldn't have hurt anything.
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Fresh as cookies outta the oven. Now off to the sizer... :grin:
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