Thanks for the advice kweidner, ausglock and dystaxia
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Thanks for the advice kweidner, ausglock and dystaxia
For 9mm and 38/357 boolit I bake them for 9 1/2 minutes. For 40's and 45's I bake for 12 1/2 minutes. Light 1st coat and a heavy 2nd coat.
you people are cooking to long IMO. iam at 8 mins or lower.
You're cooking too long...
...from standing in the sun without a hat.
Love life & gunoil, you both may be right, but also, it may be considered, the metal loads placed into the oven.
Some folk, I have learnt, try to cook far too much at one time, and the alloy takes quite a long time to come up to temperature, (especially the larger calibers), and, also, if not good air circulation takes place inside oven, due to lack of free air movement space around projectiles.
Over cooked coatings, as long as first coat is well bonded, simply will be much darker.
As long as it works in end use applications, it should not be a problem, unless you really fussy about the colour.
From what I have seen, you all seem to be doing it very well. Good results as well.
As they say, all good.
Thanks all for blogging and providing assistance to each other.
I'm Baking,
Breville countertop convection oven.
PREHEATED TO,
Mine is now oven set at 410 F, inside the oven thermometer reads 395 F.
Batch is 3 pound load (no matter what caliber or Boolit weight).
FIRST COAT I swirl in a plastic container with JUST UNDER 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 ml)
per HI-TEK (3 pound oven load).
First Coat is usually 5/1/10 Acetone MIX, Regular Catalyst.
SECOND COAT, swirl with 3/4 teaspoon (3.75 ml) of Hi-TEK. (3 # Load).
Second Coat is a 5/1/7 Acetone ratio with 2 EXTREME CATALYST.
BAKE times that I'm now working with, NEW colors from Bayou Bullets,
BRICK RED and GOLD 1035.
38's (mostly 148 & 158 grain) 3 pound oven loads (140 pills),
middle oven shelf, 10 MINUTE BAKE.
45's (generally 230 grain (90 Pills), I haven't done many 200 grain yet)
3 pound oven load, 12 MINUTE BAKE.
I COAT/BAKE/SIZE/COAT/BAKE again.
I've also have COATED AND BAKED TWICE then sized.
Probably next week I'll begin working with 2 new HARDLINE INDUSTRIES
(a new Vendor Sponsor here) NO LUBE GROOVE MOLDS.
115 grain RN for 9 MM and a 45 230 RN for 45's, molds are 4 CAVITY IRON.
Really nice, they have 3 alignment pins also.
I've coated and shot, REGULAR LUBE GROOVES, TUMBLE LUBE GROOVES, and
next NO LUBE GROOVES.
I have some NO LUBE GROOVE pills I purchased from SNS CASTING that
I haven't loaded or tried yet also, they look very nice.
Next weekend I'm showing the product and info to a local group of
S&W people that I meet with occasionally. They're collectors and shooters.
Good stuff, Mm.
Iam pertty'er than you love life. Your burnt! hehehe. Thanks hitek!
Oven question, I'm running red copper, after 10 minutes at 400 (124 gn .356) I can see dark and light beans.
Does a convection oven do the same thing?
Or are all the beans roasted the same?
Thanks
The fan in the convection oven spreads the heat out more evenly.
Don't crowd your lead too much so heat circulates around your pills.
Nice even baking.
Thanks for the info moonman. Any suggestions on make/model.
BMac,
I use a BREVILLE BVO800XL, (the SMART OVEN) not cheap but a great oven.
Bed Bath and Beyond $250 List price, I've seen B.B.& B. coupons ON LINE
for $50 off before.
The Breville kinda has heat zones and a pulsating heat.
Works Great, an example of YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR.
Others here have this oven, others make do or make work
even cheapie ovens.
Just in general, I don't usually buy or use cheap tools & equipment.
Old retired Machinist in me I guess.
MM, me too, I've bought things twice to many time. This doesn't seem like a item to scrimp on.
I paid like $30 for my toaster oven and got a 4 year warranty. I have baked a lot of alloy so far.
I looked at the Brevelle but was really having a hard time spending that much on it. It sure looked good and I am sure it is but Wal Mart has an equivalent size convection for $99.
Wally world has a oyster XL w/ convection for 79 bucks. Would hate to cheap out and get another oven I can't cook in.
Beau Cassidy,
Wally World may have an EQUIVALENT SIZED OVEN, but it's not a
Breville "Smart Oven" and does not and will not work as the Breville does.
Love Life makes a cheap oven work, but where he lives he could
probably almost BAKE WITHOUT AN OVEN! LOL.:veryconfu
One thing about the Breville Oven is that the PAIN is only one time
at the cash register and then disappears as you start working with it.