Powder Coating Boolits

[Conditor22]

Cardinal Hammer white and cardinal gloss black 50/50

[cwlongshot]

♥️♥️ It Jim!!

https://youtu.be/Hx6QnDA-dBY

Last Powder coated.

CW

[slohunter]

Powder coated boolits for the first time today, nothing to it. 200 with HF powder, 200 with Eastwood. Eastwood powder is worth the price difference.

[Homebrew]

Awesome setup!

[Homebrew]

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Cardinal Hammer white and cardinal gloss black 50/50

What is that tray?

[GasGuzzler]

Got an oven for Christmas. Ordered powder today. Bought a temp read out and tested/marked the oven dial. Thanks to Smoke for the tips. I'll be ready to try it out when the supplies arrive if I can find some giant tweezers...

[Old School Big Bore]

Just finished reading all 128 pp of this thread. You guys have done some beautiful work! Apparently HF has discontinued the Red and Yellow powders; all I can find in the store or on their site are the Black and White. I don't have an ES gun, so I tried shake & bake in recycled gunpowder jugs, both single-color and mixed (not too great), Piglet with acetone (gloppy), DT in a Lyman 1200, preheated (stuck to each other catastrophically), and DT w/ASBB in the Lyman. I'm baking in a plain toaster oven with silpat cut to fit the tray and an oven thermometer hung inside. I use cartridge box inserts to put the boolits in rows; the 30 carbine boxes let me put 200 to a pan and 38 or 45 boxes = 150/pan. I handle them with dusted gloves and fix any that fall with my saltwater de-hooking hemostat. I'm getting pretty good coverage with both HF MB and MW, but 20 minutes after they turn glossy at 400*F sometimes makes a few in the middle of the tray seizing to the silpat and getting destroyed when I knock them into the quench bucket. Next batch, I'm going to bake them at 25 or so degrees cooler for the same time and see if that stops the slumping. I'll also try some nonstick foil.
Before you jump on me, I can't afford an ES gun nor a dedicated convection oven at this point. I will however be buying some powder from Smoke.
I'll move some pics from my phone to the desktop and post them.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed knowledge and experience on this and other threads.
Ed <><

[Rico1791]

I’m also one of the lucky ones who generally do not have a problem coating while it’s raining out side.

GREAT looking boolits guys!!!

CW

How? I'm in INDIANA. I have to wait till winter when the humidity is low. Even then I really have a hard time getting the powder to stick. I use Thepowdercoatstore.com powder. Help!!!.

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Rico1791, I buy all my powders from the powder coat store. Which ones are you using?

[Rico1791]

Rico1791, I buy all my powders from the powder coat store. Which ones are you using?

The blue. It puts a really thin coat on it. The humidity has to be just right to get a real good coat on it. I should not have to wait to certain times of the year

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[slide]

If you have a vibratory tumbler you might try this. Myself and AndyC have been experimenting and so far we like what we see. Any bottle with a good screw on lid will work. When you turn on your tumbler the bottles will turn slowly,the vibration and the bullets sliding on the inside of the bottle help to create more static than the shake and bake. Times generally run around five to ten minutes to coat.

[Rico1791]

If you have a vibratory tumbler you might try this. Myself and AndyC have been experimenting and so far we like what we see. Any bottle with a good screw on lid will work.

Thank you I will give that 1A try

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If you want to see a photo of the matte blue I have posted one in the test area and one in this section in the powder coat pictures thread.

[slide]

Rico1791 I am sending you a pm

[Rico1791]

Rico1791 I am sending you a pm

Ok

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[cwlongshot]

Looks like you have the aide you need Rico!! Dont ya love this place!!

Good luck!

CW

[Rico1791]

Looks like you have the aide you need Rico!! Dont ya love this place!!

Good luck!

CW

I have learned more today then what I did in the last 3 years.

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[cwlongshot]

Thats great man!! Happy to be a small part in that!!

CW

[CasterOfBullets]

If you have a vibratory tumbler you might try this. Myself and AndyC have been experimenting and so far we like what we see. Any bottle with a good screw on lid will work. When you turn on your tumbler the bottles will turn slowly,the vibration and the bullets sliding on the inside of the bottle help to create more static than the shake and bake. Times generally run around five to ten minutes to coat.

Great idea, I will have to try that. I’ve been using the shake and bake method with a whey protein jug and airsoft BBs, but the static just does not build up unless conditions are perfect.

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CasterofBullets, you will not get as good a coat when the humidity is high. Just the nature of the beast with powder coat. I will post a photo of some bullets I did today. Where I am at the temp is 26F and the humidity is 90%. The top bullets were vibrated for 5 minutes and the bottom was vibrated for 20 minutes. I could not get shake and bake to stick at all.