SO I have powder coated 9mm, 30-30 and 30.06 bullets and all the time I just shake and baked on a wire rack in the toaster oven. I was working toward a 6.8 SPC round and cast a bunch, water quench and powder coated and quenched. When Powder coated I tried using the mini ice cube trays I saw people using to get nicer bullets. I measured some bullets out of the mold at .278 but after powder coating I am measuring .285 and that seems very thick for powder coating. Using Eastwood green. They are getting tore up in the .278 sizer when trying to size them and put on gas checks. I mean its pretty rough pushing them through, harder than any I have done before. I saw lead dust in the bottom of the lee sizer tray and open spots on the sides of the bullets. They are coming through.277 and not .278
Could standing them on the base make the coating thicker from running down from the nose to the driving bands? I cast 600 of these and its looking like they are getting melted again, but I don't want to screw this up again. What looks blue is lead. The iPhone camera did that.