a'yup...his name is Craig Westerman and he shoots 3gun/multigun and USPSA matches with his son in Kansas. I have sent him private messages via this forum and via the Brian Enos forum asking him how he knew it was the Sandstrom liquid and if he had any insider knowledge on how it gets applied to bullets.
I never did get a reply back. :-(
my own experimentation with the liquid wasn't very fruitful.... ARRGHH!!
I am thinking that bullets...err...boolits have to be sized a thou or two under before they are coated. so like a .45 ACP boolit would normally be .451 or maybe even .452, you would be better off starting out with a boolit that was sized down to .449....then coating it.
my experience trying to load my dip coated boolits showed that even with a good bell on the mouth of the caSe that when the boolits were seated, the case mouth still liked to scrape the coating off. :-/
for me, since I have Star I wasn"t going to blow money on a .449 sizing die just to experiment with it.
also at the time, I was placing the dipped boolits onto a piece of brown craft paper. when I would go to pull the dried bullet off the paper, a glob of the coating would always come off the base end of the boolit .... argghhh..
which led me to believe even more that my youtube friends were correct about their jelly bean dye-ing tumbling process.
this is kind of a long video but just fast forward to the 6:47 mark :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2sHM...=youtube_gdata
my youtube friends and mechanical engineering friends all kinda agreed that would be the easiest and quickest way to coat boolits in bulk.
about the only other catch with me as far as this Sandstrom liquid goes is that it is very "hot". I mean like spraying plain ol' nitrocellulose lacquer in your house "hot". if it didn't give you a headache within the first 30 seconds of smelling it, the vapors would probably float across the floor until they found a pilot light and then KABOOOMMMM! :-O there goes your house.
so the tumbling part would be easy enough to do safely....just buy an el cheapo cement/concrete/mortar mixer from harbor freight. It is the adding heat part that has me worried...how to do that safely???
I do remember....however...seeing a pic on the brian enos forums about 5 years ago....somebody had received a shipment of black bullets ....in the pic the guy had his bullets all laid out on a table and maybe even under some incandescent bulbs (drop lights) as the instructions were that the
ebullets were still wet or damp and needed some additional drying time before they were to be loaded up.