G'day All.
HI-TEK JOE has asked me to start a new thread for the do's and don'ts of using the liquid coating and soon the new DRY-TEK Powders.
The old HI-TEK thread started by Gunoil as grown to the level where people looking for tips & tricks can't find the info they need, due to the enormous size of the thread.
We have all come a long way since Gunoil started that thread. we have all learnt from each other and shared our findings, both good and bad.
So. Gunoil. I hope you don't think I'm trying to step on your toes by starting this thread.
But if it is kept to just tips and tricks without the waffleing on ( Yes I am a waffler), it should be easy for poeple to find the info they need.
Using these coatings is fairly straight forward. There are a huge number of people using the HI-TEK Supercoat.
I'll start it off with my instructions for using the liquid coating.
1. add 2 bullets to your colour resin and shake for a good 5 minutes.
2. shake the catalyst.
3. empty bottle ready. Add 5 parts colour immediately...IMMEDIATELY... after shaking.
4. Add 7 parts Acetone and then the 1 part catalyst.
5. Put lid on the mixture and shake the schit out of it for 5 minutes. I use 250ml juice bottles with pop-tops on them. easy to add coating to the bullets.
6. Add about 200 bullets( about 2Kgs) to the plastic bucket. lid is NOT needed.
7. Shake the 5-1-7-mix and Immediately add a 1 second dribble to the bucket of bullets. Replace mixture lid Immediately.
8. Shake the bucket of bullets and coating. Remember... you have to have the bullets and coating mixing around just like a cement mixer does. The bottom of the bucket should be wet with coating.
9. Keep shaking, swirling until the rattle of the bullets changes to a dull thumping. you will hear the change really easy.
10. dump the coated bullets onto your drying tray and shake the tray side to side until the bullets have leveled out on the tray. don't worry about them touching. it doesn't matter.
11. If you think there isn't enough colour on the bullet, then you have the coating just right. Leave them alone for at least 10 minutes. then warm them with a hair dryer.
12. turn on your oven and pre-heat to 200deg C.
13. place you bullets on the baking tray and spread them around to be even on the tray and place tray in the oven.
14. set the oven timer for 12 minutes. not 6 or 8. But a full 12 minutes.
15. when the oven turns off, remove the tray of bullets and let them cool. do not touch them until cool.
16. when cool. take 1 bullet. lay it in it's side on a steel base and smash it with a hammer. the coating should not flake off.
17. Take another bullet and get some acetone on a white cloth and wipe the coated bullet for 30 seconds and see if the colour comes off. if it does. place back into oven and bake for another 5 minutes. ( I have found 12 minutes per bake is enough).
18. When the bullets are cool, place back in the bucket and repeat steps 6 to 17.
19. when 2nd coat has cooled and has tested OK, Size and shoot.
This is really easy to do. the biggest mistake is not shaking immediately before coating or not baking long enough or at a too low temperature.
If your coating passes the wipe test but smashes off, You have used too much coating. remember... it is a stain (thanks, Gunoil) not a paint. a little goes a long way.
OK. Now add you tips and tricks.
Thanks.