Where do you buy Mica powder?

[GuyKickinit]

Reviving an old thread maybe to refresh resources or take it on another tangent. I looked at the balistics site and they still sell the powder. Midway does not, or I can't find it. I looked on amazon and ebay and due to the arts and craft world I found many colors of mica.
You can get 12 colors from ...sh, china, for under 5 bucks.
It would be a kin to powder coating...lol. Then talking to my wife she brings a container of purple powder mica from her make up.
I just happen to need to make some new 303brit. May have to try it. and it was free!!!

[oley55]

https://www.midsouthshooterssupply.c...ter-motor-mica it says in stock. And yes Midway carries the applicator with motor mica but has discontinued the refills. No doubt the Forster price is probably a gazillion times more than other bulk sources, but we need so little.

edit: it seems Midway sells the Frankfort brand: https://www.midwayusa.com/product/2124290522/ (OOPS discontinued as well).

I also found links to a Lyman Motor Mica. I think my search parameter was "motor mica dry lubricant". That seemed to eliminate the makeup mica results. I got no idea if the makeup stuff is the same or not.

[dale2242]

It is available on E Bay.

[GregLaROCHE]

Dust alox boolits with PC powder! Just kidding.

[Shiloh]

Motor Mica.
Brownells or Midway.

Shiloh

[Winger Ed.]

Motor Mica.
Brownells

I dust my lubed boolits with it, and was getting low awhile back.
I couldn't find it either, except from Brownell's.

I didn't read the fine print before I ordered it and for about $5.oo bucks or so,
I got this little bag about the size of a postage stamp that looked like a single dose of crack cocaine.

[tward]

Talcum powder works great and smells nice too. I think years ago I ordered a 1ounce sample for free from a cosmetic company, l’m still using it 40 years later! Tim

[Winger Ed.]

Talcum powder works great and smells nice too.

Sounds like you're not using enough to matter, but I'd read somewhere it
can be mildly abrasive.

I always wondered if corn starch would be OK and do the job we use mica for.

[GuyKickinit]

Well, It took me a year to get back around to this. I did load a bunch of 303 brit. hard cast after using my wife's purple powder that said it was mica. Just a light coat after TLing and it did help with keeping my seating die clean. As for any change in ballistics? Well, it went bang, and it's my wife's favorite gun so, all is well. The powder did help with the tackiness, and after a while of drying it didn't leave my fingers glittery.

[John Guedry]

When I bought my first mold (Lee t.l.) I bought a container of powderd mica. 30 years later still have most left.

[Nick Quick]

Boy this is quite an old thread. I do have many jars with mica powder but they are all for coloring the plastisol when I make soft baits. Not sure if is the same mica powder you guys use though.

[Shiloh]

Midway or Brownells.

Shiloh

[dondiego]

Got mine from Midway years ago and then I realized that I was using way too much liquid Alox on the boolits. After diluting the Alox with 50% mineral spirits, I understood liquid Alox.

[GuyKickinit]

Boy this is quite an old thread.

Old threads are packed with info. Why re-invent the wheel. Besides I notice when someone asks a question that was answered in an older thread, the old one gets linked to. I'd rather keep a convo going.

I had to dilute my LLA just to get it workable. Now it's like syrup and just a little drizzle will do a couple hundred.

[Kenstone]

MICROLUBROL 1 oz Hexagonal Boron Nitride hBN Powder Ultra FINE 0.5 µ Micron

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N4CSJCB...v_ov_lig_dp_it
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