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Aqualube is great stuff, has many uses. Non contaminating is a big plus. It can be applied to a surface and adhesive tape will stick but the surface is slick, very interesting material. One of my...

They look pretty good.

No doubt Aqua-Lube is great stuff. I really like that you don't have to worry about contamination with it like other products.

I had some casts that had two coats and were coated with Aqua-Lube...

They look pretty good, DDriller

This is some lead shot I coated with 1, 2 & 3 coats of Candy Apple. Tests completed for a US. company.

Shot coats exceptionally well and can be layered when baked in my infrared conveyor oven. No...

That's not good to hear, Tazza. I've had enough of COVID stuffing everything up too.

My biggest issue is no space and next, just having too many projects on the go. Had an offer to share some...

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Been a bit quite on here lately.

Just cleaning up my bench and though I'd share a photo of some of the projectiles I have coated and tested.
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They look pretty flash. Reckon they would go well with my sizing machines.

Ausglock, I bought a few APP dies some months ago. The tests I've completed is they vary in size quite a bit compared to stated diameter. .357 I tried measures closer to .3565 and I'm getting...

Can't give much advice re "pizza warmer" If it is a halogen infrared it may not be suitable although, I have not completed any testing with halogen infrared. My thought is it will be too intense and...

Not sure why some would "take" the coating better than others.

Without seeing what they look like, my thoughts is small batches are more difficult to obtain an even coat, especially if agitating...

I'm pretty sure those ones were test baked at my normal oven settings and exit temp was 205 degrees C after 5:35 mins.

Below is the comparison image showing results for different temperatures and...

I was saying dark green because that's what was on the label of the product Joe sent. I haven't had any experience with other greens, so I don't really know the difference.

R & D of Hi-Tek Supercoat dark green and blue colours.

From left to right:
# First two projectiles are one coat dark green cured, baked using our infrared oven technology
# Next three are one...

Just need to be able to get to cure temp of 195 degrees C and hold it for a few minutes.

I don't think IR LEDs would be able to get to such temperatures. In an oven environment the LEDs and...

M37, have now replied.

Popper,

There is still much to do in the way of testing Hi-Tek with infrared curing.

I don't use nor recommend halogen infrared as it may be too intense on the surface and will possibly burn...

Also completed another infrared oven Hi-Tek bake test the other day.

This test was baking the coating without pre-heating the projectiles after allowing the coating to air dry.

1st coat was...

From tests I have completed using the 500+ the product is fantastic. I have a couple of moulds that don't like releasing one cavity and after treating with 500+ the problem reduced dramatically. I...

Just bumping this post as had a few requests about the Infrared oven colour testing.

I researched these a while ago. Know as Gas Catalytic IR. At the time I didn't find a lot of information, wanted to know if they were short or long wave IR. I thought they might have been more like...

And if I was smart, I'd use the PID alarm function as an additional safety just in case the temperature was to exceed a set maximum threshold.

This the infrared oven PID control. I used illuminated switches so it was easier to see if the PID was on or not. Green is circuit on, Red is PID active.
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The image is of my automated caster PID's. There are two that control the lead melt pot. The temps shown are this morning before the pot was turned on. There is 2.1 degrees difference. Both PID's,...