Ok, what am I doing wrong?
Made a half-batch of tru blu, erring on the side of slightly too much acetone rather than too little.
Oven has an thermometer inside measuring air temp, plus a remote temp sensor, crimped into a hole drilled into a bare bullet.
I'm cooking for 8 minutes by the timer, paying attention to when the probe hits 360F, with about 3.5 - 4 minutes of cook time after that.
They pass the smash test with flying colors, and he coating does it's job perfectly. But they're always dark. I want them to be bright, pretty blue!
I'm pretty sure it's down to one of the following:
1. Too much coating
2. Temp too high
3. Cooking too long
Or some combination of those.
I actually shortened the cook time on the below batch to 6 minutes for the second coat.
In the smash test pics, it's batch 1 coat 1, then batch 1 coat 2. The next two are the second batch.
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