I'm imagining it to look a little bit like a Hershey's Kiss? You got pitchers?
I'm imagining it to look a little bit like a Hershey's Kiss? You got pitchers?
KE4GWE - - - - - - Colt 1860, it just feels right.
Not nearly as pretty as a Hershey's kiss, but yes, that's the idea. You can literally do this with scraps of foil.
A coat of powder have pretty much glued these to the base foil, but you can sort of see here. Bullets are NOE 452-230s:
Here's one from another scrap of foil. Bullets on tray are NOE 311-165s.
Another thing I noticed today:
I did several trays, and on one of them I forgot to hook the pigtail to the tray to charge it. I could not tell a drop of difference in the way the bullets were coated.
Maybe we'd all be just as well off with simple blow guns that attack directly to an air line, no 'es' needed?
Those 311-165s are awesome, aren't they!
I can really tell a difference when I'm not stepping on the pedal. My powder just blows right by the boolits and I cannot get them to coat on the lower 2/3 for anything..... until I notice that I'm not stepping on the pedal.
KE4GWE - - - - - - Colt 1860, it just feels right.
I haven't got to shoot them on paper yet, but I've got a decent amount of them loaded up and ready to go.
When I coat the bottom of my bullets always coats last, but it doesn't bother me with the 311-165 in washers they're spaced well enough that they coat pretty quickly, with pistol bullets most of them are upside down anyway and I've decided that I really don't even care if the bottom (which is the nose) is coated anyway. As long as I have a solid coat on the driving bands, the nose and the lube grooves can be completely bare and it doesn't bother me.
If one doesn't have a complete coat, I just rub a dab of lube on it and load it anyway.
I cast and coated about 500 today. All in HF red. About half and half of:
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and 38-162-SWC (These will get gas checks)
All got one spray, one bake of 400 degrees for 20 mins.
And I didn't knock a single one over when moving the trays!
I scored a pound of W296 at the LGS... I'm gonna light these babies up!
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KE4GWE - - - - - - Colt 1860, it just feels right.
Beagle333 You couldn't tip anything over being packed that close together.
(thanks)
Center to center.
KE4GWE - - - - - - Colt 1860, it just feels right.
The local Menards has a Pizza Oven on sale for $40. I'm tempted to hook a PID up to it (since the temp control is fixed in it) and some sort of fan to turn it into a convection oven.. but man, you could probably do 400-500 at a time in it...
I suppose the cost when added all up would be prohibitive tho...
Anyone use an old pizza oven?
I do about 300 at a time (every 10-12 minutes) in my 4 rack little convection oven. That is fast enough for me!!!!!!! I cannot shoot them that fast!
Unless you are doing a commercial venture, that is a ton of boolits!
banger
I had an interesting thing happen yesterday; I have ESPC coated 8 or 10 thousand boolits in the last six months with powder from several different sources in many colors of the rainbow. Yesterday I loaded my gun with some silver powder that I purchased from All Powder Paints. After about 5 seconds of coating I got too close to my rack and got a spark which ignited a fire ball about 12 inches in diameter at the end of my gun. I immediately quit spraying and moved the gun back, the fire ball went out. Has anyone else had this happen to them or is it the batch of powder that I used?
Last edited by ipijohn; 02-26-2014 at 03:33 PM. Reason: spelling
Not yet for me, but some dust when suspended in the air is flammable or explosive. Take a pinch of flour and drop it over a candle flame...
ANY product in a fine dust condition and mixed with the right amount of air will become a combustable mixture!
Yet.........our guns spark on a regular basis while coating and I have NEVER had or heard of this happening. It must be that Al dust content for pigment as popper said above. I used to use Al powder to make explosive "bangers" as a kid. Makes great flash powder.
Question......why are you coating silver-looking lead with a sliver-looking powder???????
Just asking!
banger
I thought about silver then decided to go with a durable slick clear. I still get the lead look and all the benefits of PC. Kinda glad about the clear....no fireballs. By the way, the clear is performing the same as the standard PC...outstanding.
Which clear are you using? There's a bunch of them.
I'd like to give the clear a try too. Source?
KE4GWE - - - - - - Colt 1860, it just feels right.
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 |