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    Powder coat existing bullets

    So I have a transferable cobray m11 that I want to take to knob creek and shoot in the jungle walk in October to say I at least went before they shut down for good.

    I currently have 2000 ish left 125 tc 9mm lead boolits that suck in anything I shoot the. In, due to the fact they are. 356 and super hard. If I can use them I would like to just to be rid of them.

    My idea is as follows..... I want to powder coat them using the red powder mix from harbor fright and then size them .357/8 and load them as sub mg fodder in order to avoid leading my barrel and getting some accuracy.

    Has anyone done this before and what was your end result?

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    As long as they are not well oxidized clean them good in acetone then let them dry WELL .. coat
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    Are those boolits already lubed? If so, PC ain't gonna work without removing old lube...which is a real PITA!! (Check out the current thread about removing old lube prior to PC). Also, myself, wouldn't try it with HF Red; in my experience it doesn't yield the best coating on freshly cast boolits, even with proper prep, and I doubt it would would provide a satisfactory result on 'recycled' either.

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    Must be REAL CLEAN!!

    Done it many times. Cleaner the better.

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    What worked for me. Placed the bullets on a piece of aluminum foil on my PC oven rack. Baked at 400 dg for about 15 min. 99.9% of the lube melted off. Dumped the bullets onto a sheet of old clean cardboard for excess lube to be removed, rolled them around. Then boiled ( bring to full boil ) bullets in an old pot for another 5 min or so. Lube floats to the surface. Poured that off & boiled once more. At this point my bullets were clean. I PC as normal & they shot perfectly. This method uses no toxic carb cleaner or acetone. I poured the boiling water off into a cardboard box with old news paper in it. That captured the lube residue. Simple. Took about 1 hour total to remove the lube off of 300 bullets I had. It worked.

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    Since you are posting in here go the extra inch and order some powder from Smoke. Get the black BB's too if you don't have access to some.

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    I'm using "smokes " powder & have had no negative issues. Worked for me every time.

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    Clean off the lube = squeeky clean as described above. HF powder sux, WAY better to use Smokes or Eastwood Ford Light Blue. Water quench right out of the oven to increase hardness, size, load.

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    Put bullets in lead pot.

    Cast better bullets.

    Coat them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Burnt Fingers View Post
    Put bullets in lead pot.

    Cast better bullets.

    Coat them.
    This, although I’d add a step to dilute alloy with some soft lead.

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    I had a bunch of .40/.45/9mm lubed bullets that I ultimately decided to pc. I boiled them a couple of times skimming off the wax and agitating them while they boiled. Soaked them in acetone, and they PC'd nicely.

    Given a choice I'd rather get the wax off than cast them all over again.
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    I have some HF red that I used before I bought from Smoke. If you plan to use the HF PC my advice is to powder coat them twice before sizing. I have used pills I PC'd with HF red, one coat and two coats. I've never had leading with the HF stuff but I decided to double coat and then size just to be safe.

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    Years ago I had several thousand lubed bullets I wanted to PC. I tried melting the lube in a low heat oven, it didn't work. I tried boiling, it didn't work. Then I tried an over night soak covered with gasoline and they looked pretty good. I did it one more time and they looked great. Then a rinse in acetone. They coated, cured and shot with no problems.

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