Just thought I would share that Harbor Freight has the gun on sale for @ $64.99 and the red, white and black powder for $3.99.
The printable 20% coupon brought the gun down to $51.99.
Thanks for the new addiction!
Just thought I would share that Harbor Freight has the gun on sale for @ $64.99 and the red, white and black powder for $3.99.
The printable 20% coupon brought the gun down to $51.99.
Thanks for the new addiction!
Is this the same powder you use for tumbling?
It is the same powder that many have been using.
Fasinating. Im temped to try getting some, and sticking it i a rotary tumbler..
Save your rotary tumbler drum. Boolit just ride around in it and do not coat well. Just use a coolwhip container. Leave the lid off. put in just a tiny bit of powder at at time, as much as will stick to the boolits.....and no more. Shake and roll for a couple minutes until they will coat no more, adding powder *** needed. Coolwhip....not tupperware! Don't know why, but coolwhip really works.
I had many many failures at first until I tried it this way. ES is still my main way, but an alternative is nice.
bangerjim
Im kind of on a low budget so cheaper is better. I usually juse use speed green, but like to tru new things
Bullshop Jr.
I buy my powder from www.powderbuythepound.com at a little over $15 per pound. A pound will coat several thousand bullets. I have used the powder from Harbor Freight and never had good results. The pinch of necessity is a cruel one but spending money on poor products hurts too.
I have used a rotary tumbler (the one from harbor freight) in an attempt to dry coat bullets. My results were terrible. I finally broke down and cleaned out my Midway vibratory tumbler and got very good results. Just don't add too much powder at one time. The powder remaining in the tumbler bowl is easy to clean up with acetone.
The thread that I have linked to here is four pages but tell/shows you everything you need to know about dry tumbler powder coating: http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/to...uper-easy-way/
If you order a pound of powder from Powder Buy the Pound, ask them to send you a small sample of some other color. usually they will send you a 2-3 ounce sample if asked. Good folks to deal with.
Here are the standard colors available: https://www.powderbuythepound.com/RAL-Color-Chart
They will do custom colors if none of these suit you.
Last edited by jaysouth; 01-25-2014 at 11:35 PM.
Get a tub of coolwhip and enjoy some deserts! Get some very cheap powder at HF (not $15/# + shipping OMG!) and coat some boolits. The only thing you may have to loose is a couple pounds of weight gained from the deserts!!!!!! HA....ha
Now that is "coating on the cheep!" Anybody can afford that.
bangerjim
Ive gonna have to give it a try...do you guys size before or after coating?
Fasinating. You guys using like the lee push through dies? Are you doing .002 over like you would with a regular lubed boolit?
Years ago I moly coated J bullets for benchrest shooting. A little powder in a plastic jar then(screw lid on) put in Lyman 1200 (media left in) for about 1 hr. Worked well. No fuss no muss. Should work with powder coating. Saw the HF electrostaic gun. Nice.
A 1lb plastic folgers can works great. Just roll it around in your hands ant the boolits get a nice even coat very quickly. I had no luck using my rotary tumbler and now see no need.
Ill try to get on a computer later and read up on it. My phone can be hard to navigate when I want to do a lot of reading.
I got in on this deal last week. paid $75 for the gun and 4 pounds. Just need to get a thrift store oven and ready to leave the world of lube.
Just a head's up..........make sure you get a convection oven (fan) NOT a standard one. Standards have hot spots and horrible temp profile & control. Conv's cost a lot more but are the only ones that really do the job we want.
Reason: baking "food" in a standard oven, the mass of the food and dishes act as a heat sink, evening out the temp in the oven. Our lil' boolits have no mass and the temp can swing wildly, especially with standard ovens. The fan in the conv circulates the heat evenly and allows ALL the boolits to be at the same temp, rather than having saggy ones over the elements and cold ones at the sides, front, and back.
Also check temps with an oven thermometer.....toaster ovens are horribly inaccurate.
I tried the "cheepo" route and had NO luck with good boolits. If you can find a conv at a used store good luck..I spent $100+ for a new one so I could get the older one the wife had.
Now......perfect baked boolits every time!
Good luck!
banger
banger,
Thanks for the heads up. I almost bought the $20 toaster oven from Walmart.
I bought the Oster Digital countertop oven. $59.00 from Walmart. I'm thinking about buying the gun setup from HF. Where do you get this printable coupon?
Try this for 25% off @ Harbor Freight:
http://www.dealcatcher.com/coupons_b...ight/996726234
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |