Nice looking Beetmagnet.... and cheaper than diamonds! :wink:
Are those PBTP colors?
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Nice looking Beetmagnet.... and cheaper than diamonds! :wink:
Are those PBTP colors?
SUPER DURABLE HIGH GLOSS CLEAR COAT - SUPER DURABLE POLYESTER TGIC on eBay. From seller POWDERCOATPAINTS, has good reviews and lots of colors, but I was curious about this clear.
I love the clear.
With the clear, you can go naked or put a base for some extra zing. I'm an airbrush artist, so I like the option to base any color I want and than seal it with the clear.
Sorry BangerJim, no more lookies, but it was part of the clear option.
Joe break out the air brush and add some flames or something that's has to be a first.
Same reason as the guy who coats them to look like Easter eggs. AND I have found that the silver PC conducts very well. I ESPC on screen wire racks. With the silver color being conductive I don't have to clean the racks, just slide the cooked ones off and reload anyplace on the rack with my loading block.
I had an arc and small fireball the first time using the gun, it was HF powder, black in color. It was small enough to not make me jump
Sort of a non-issue on the nail heads. To say they clean up easily would be an understatement.
However, having a powder that is particularly conductive is worthy of note for a different reason: It means that the powder likely can be mixed with trouble powders like HF yellow and wind up with a metal flake yellow that bonds decently. IE magic bonding elixir that adds *bling* to the boolit. I'm intrigued.
Hiya. Do you guys get powder that just falls out of the end of the gun, kinda fairly often? I do. I wonder if I may not hold it at the best angle (like should the jug of powder be perfectly straight up/down?), or maybe I shake it around too much to get the "swirling" sound from the jug (maybe I should stop shaking the gun and just tap the jug). Or maybe it's a matter of how much powder I have in the jug.
Speaking of that, when we say 1-2 inches of powder... is that when the jug is upright? Or upside down on the gun? Because there's actually a fairly big difference in space between the two.
I'm trying to get the hang of this, and trying to learn what the powder, gun and bullets all like... it seems like it varies so much and so often! I'm getting nice results overall, so I'm happy. I just wanted to toss out a few questions/thoughts now that I've been at it for a couple weeks.
Thanks. -Brad
1-1/2" when upright, which as you say, will be more when on the gun.
I do have a little powder fall out, but not much. I'm just careful that when I do tip the gun straight down, it's not over the boolits.
But I'm still talking about a few spots of powder, and not every spray, so I don't know what causes it.
I did 3 trays yesterday and it only dropped the spots during one of the sprays.
I'll bet it's not enough powder to fill up a Tylenol capsule if you were to collect it all up.
(sorry I don't have a more scientific comparison of volume):wink:
I don't hold the gun level, I hold it at a steep angle, probably more downward than level as I work my way around the tray. Maybe that's why most powder blows out with the airflow. :???:
Agree................hold the gun at least at a 45° angle when spraying. Due to static buildup of the HV charge and the powder/air mix flowing down the plastic pipe, a static charge will build up on the inner wall of the gun barrel and collect powder. Occasionally some of that will come off and fall out. If you ever look up in there, you will see there is a LOT of powder clinging to the walls. ( At least here in low humidity AZ it does!) That is why there is so much carry-over when you change color many times. It's not the powder in the jar. It's the powder in the barrel of the ES gun. When I change colors I blow the thing out with high pressure air to get rid of all that. It does take a bit to get "the skids greased" in the gun barrel again to get a good coating started, but that is just the way it is.
Oh............it's 2" of powder in the BIG part of the jar!
Good coatings!
bangerjim
I hadn't yet bought a lube/sizer, just tumble lube 38, 357, 9mm and 30-30, which has been cheap enough (and I have a lifetime supply of 45/45/10 now) and fast enough, but the allure of PC is more than I can resist plus I'll be able to PC other stuff as well. Honestly, I wasn't interested in the HT, piglet method or tumble method cause the results were less impressive to me asthetically, but the ESPC was irresistible. I tried staying away but couldn't, then convinced myself that if I read every post someone would say something that would convince me not to do this, whatever! 8-)
Whew, it felt good to get that off my chest! I ordered a decent countertop convection oven from Walmart, picked up the HF ES PC gun and paint today but it will be a week or so before I get started spraying. I'm Craig and I'm an addict.
Today, while I was eating some left overs, I remember the static build up of styrofoam cups. Maybe this is a disposable container for small batches of mixed colors for show? Or if it leaves an even coat due to thematic property, a pretty cheap "electrostatic" alternative.
Members: "Hi Craig! And welcome to the group. Would you like to be first to read from the handbook today?" :wink:
The 457193. I'm going to have to figure out a way to spray these big ol' boolits that don't have a GC to hold em up. They didn't work on my little tray with the nuts. I knocked em over 3 times before I even got to spraying, so I just stood them on the foil. It works okay, but I like the nice clean edge that I get when they are elevated just a bit.
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Been reading up on here and thinking about getting into PC'ing. A friend sent some 45 230gr TC boolits he PC'ed HF black, I loved them. Well, I ordered the HF PC gun today and some powders. My PC adventure is about to begin.
Enjoy just like Pringles once you pop you just can't stop