What was the brand you returned to Walmart?
I have a Farberware from Walmart that I want to return because it just takes so long to heat back up after I put the bullets in.
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What was the brand you returned to Walmart?
I have a Farberware from Walmart that I want to return because it just takes so long to heat back up after I put the bullets in.
2nd coat on my 1st try.
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They look good to me and pass the smash test. I am getting just a hint of removal from the acetone. Is this acceptable?
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Check em while sizeing (what they look like after sizing? I know some peeps dont size!) and check when bullets are seated in brass. Are you scraping off lil' slivers when seating. U see lead @ top of brass? Nines are a SOB. I hate nine brass. Thinkin bought leaving 9mm, but there islots of it here free for the pickin. Iam a picker.
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And a cleaner! 700RPM
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I have several 9mm's and I second the suggestion to size to .358"
If using Lee belling dies, you can replace its sizing component to use a .38 S&W sizer. That bells much better than the 9mm sizer and is a completely drop in solution ($5 from Lee).
I'm not sure about the water drop, though. Once you bake the finish, doesn't that "undo" the water drop's hardening?
prickett is smart.
I have lee expander dies turn down on laithe to RCBS step dies dia..
If i seat and crimp in two stages, 9's aren't to bad. I size boolit at .355. If this dang loadmaster had of had 6 holes, i like a bullet feeder. Gonna sell some stuff round here and get a 1050, ya dont think so, just hide and watch. Dang tappered case, hard to size and bulges at bottom from range. Yea, I have a bb kit.
trev
Are the 2 reds suitable for rifles? I got the colour you see in my post as "red" but its not red enough for me.
Ha ha ha!!!! Lol's and all that! The one I returned was indeed the farberware.
it looked just like this one, without the chicken. :-)
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@gunoil: Be careful in those crocs. They are indeed comfy, but probably the most dangerous shoe on the planet!
For me: Crocs+slick wet floor=shattered knee.
I might be over thinking this, but I'm still getting some color to wipe of of the 1st coat after baking. I'm doing the 5-1-7 mix and l went lighter this time on a bigger batch of bullets. But after 10 minutes I was getting some color to wipe off so I baked them again for 5 minutes and then again for another 5 minutes. I did get a thermometer to make sure my oven is at the correct temp, and it appears to be correct.
Should I be getting any color to wipe off with acetone or is some acceptable? If so how much? This is the part that is driving me nuts, because they look good to me, but they are failing the acetone test.
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Hi,
Can you please tell me what coloured coating you have?
It is not clear when looking at your coated projectiles.
Also, can you please tell me if how you cast, and if you use any lubes or release agents during casting?
Are you able to send me a pm a with a detailed description of your steps taken to get to coatings stage. It greatly helps if you can give me as much details as possible, so I can diagnose any areas where it can cause this sort of problem.
HI-TEK
Yes, BBQ, the crocs are home shuttle and drought weather. I know.
I listed the HB oven at first of thread after extensive research and using university of Oz also. My friends, its all here. I dont play, i quit school because of recess.
I tried my new Gold HI-TEK yesterday (coated)/today (shot). My 9mm's coated like a dream the first time I ever tried it! They were smooth and gorgeous. I shot them and the barrel was clean and lead free. I was surprised at how they went into the oven dull gray and came out gold. I was afraid I hadn't mixed the coating well enough after I'd coated them, but before baking them.
Now, the bad news. I also coated .45 ACP (usually the most forgiving round to cast/reload). Its coating turned out very grainy. When sizing, it was like sizing raw lead w/o any lube. I really feared I was using so much force I'd break the press loose from the loading table. In looking at the boolits, quite a few had the coating stripped either completely or partially off the driving bands.
One thing I noticed was that the front half of the oven tray was lighter colored than the back half. Here, I figured it was due to the temp in the oven not being the same in the front as in the back (even though its a convection oven). I'm thinking this can be corrected by placing the rack as far towards the back as possible.
I'm also wondering if I loaded too many boolits onto the tray. I probably loaded as many as the 9mm's I was successful with, but these were 230 gr. versus 125 gr. for the 9mm (so almost twice as much metal to have to warm up). I wonder if they needed to be left in longer than 10 minutes, or baked in smaller lots. Opinions?
Finally, can these be saved? Can I re-heat them to "fix" the current bad coat, then add another coat to get the bald spots resulting from the sizing operation?
What brand oven?
I do 300 9mm, but only 200 45 on each tray.
Gunoil,
Please tell us more about your brass cleaning system.
Thanks.
Rich
31100 kmart/hamilton beach (large convection oven) 99$.The bkack one.