I think the powder may be your issue. I read a ton of the old original threads when the PC was being developed on this forum and everyone tried all sorts of different methods and powders. One consistent comment was that the only HF powder that actually worked was HF Red but that was somewhat hit and miss. That’s why they ended up sourcing other alternatives.
I would recommend reaching out to Smoke and sourcing one of his sample tri color packs and try those instead and see how your results vary. I recommend his clear as it coats amazingly and maintains the classic bullet look.
If you don’t want to invest that much on an experiment shoot me a PM and maybe I can send you a small amount to try.
Here’s a photo of some PCing I was doing the other night left tray just came out of oven for 16 min at 400. Right tray was about to go in. Smoke clear with some Smoke Green and Smoke black mixed in.
I shake in a ikea plastic locking container (but I’ve used cool whip containers, country crock containers, ziplock containers, etc with success as long as it has “5” triangle code) with air soft BBS for 1.5 minutes before extracting using latex glove fingers dipped in powder so I don’t wipe off the powder before baking. I can send you a video of my process if it would help.
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