Hello my name is Randy. I am a Gun-a-holic. I recently purchased my first AR 300 BO upper. I felt my LLA coated boolits might not be up to the task. A few forum members here explained PC might be the way to go. I emailed Smokes and asked which colors covered the best, he gave advise. Being a Motorsport fan, I chose Ford blue. So I ordered up some powder from Smokes, and gave it a try. Here's how it went.........
Powder coat with Smokes Ford blue.
1. Loosely followed Smokes directions. Placed 100 ea pre-heated Boolits in an old Cookie dough plastic container, that displayed the #5 recycle symbol.
2. Placed a level teaspoon of PC powder in container. No air-soft-balls. Won't be here till next week. Shook vigorously, round-n-round, and up-n down for 1 minute.
3. Placed freshly Pc’ed Boolits in a wire basket I made that had a sheet of parchment paper place inside.
4. Placed basket in a pre-heated (400 degrees) (Cheapest they sell) toaster from Walmart. Waited 20 minutes
5. Removed after timer went off. Dunked coated Boolits in a water vessel.
Lessons learned.
o Do not touch freshly PC coated boollits before oven heat cycle. Only after! It will remove PC coating.
o Note to self- Don't throw parchment paper in the water with boolits, BIG MESS.
o Will try aluminum foil next, as Smoke's suggested. Parchment paper NO Bueno!!
o 1 Teaspoon of PC powder is way more than needed.
Over all I am pleased with the results. Just need to fine-tune process. I believe I could load the already sized 311” boolits as is. If I hadn't dunked the still hot boolits in with the parchment paper. Some parchment paper clung (cosmetic's only) to rapidly cooled boolits.
Found I did need to size again, as the PC coated boolits had grown in size. I might add, I did not clean lanolin/alcohol lubed boolits, prior to coating boolits. Still covered well. I guess it ain't rocket science. Randy.,