PVC may be better than #5 or #2 plastics for PCing

[Ed_Shot]

I gotta tell`ya guys, 45 seconds doing La Cucaracha
with standard #5 food containers and I'm done.

+1, I use a round Country Crock butter tub with Eastwood Ford Dark Blue powder and it takes maybe 30 sec's for 100 9mm/38/40/45 cal boolits

[Walter Laich]

+1, I use a round Country Crock butter tub with Eastwood Ford Dark Blue powder and it takes maybe 30 sec's for 100 9mm/38/40/45 cal boolits

30 seconds is also the time I swirl mine. A couple of hard up and down shakes and I'm done

[Big Boomer]

The relative humidity in the area where P/Cing takes place makes a world of difference in PC adherence, especially if you use air soft bbs. Now that warmer weather has arrived, the dehumidifier in our basement keeps the humidity at bay, at @ 40%. I use an emptied #2 2 lb gun powder cannister (label peeled off) that has a screw-on lid. Put a bit of new PC (Smokes clear) in on top of what remained from the last PCing session & shake it around a bit, roll it on the bare basement floor & it is done. I can do a couple hundred at a time of 9mm, 38 Spl/357 Mag, 40 S&W, 41 Mag, 45 Colt/ACP boolits in short order. Dump contents into a colander that has a matching bowl underneath, pick up the PCd boolits with dental tweezers, knock off the excess PC against the side of the colander & set the boolits on parchment paper in a tray from Bed Bath & Beyond & place loaded tray in pre-heated convection oven for @ 30 minutes at @ 450 degrees. Job is done. Coverage is really good. Hammered PCd boolits until they're the size of a 50 cent piece show complete adherence of PC. Works for me. Big Boomer

[Darklin]

Going to give this a try. Got all the parts laying around. Will advise.

[abqcaster]

Going to give this a try. Got all the parts laying around. Will advise.

Looking forward to hearing your results.

[Walter Laich]

my 2¢:

I made a couple of trays out of ¼" hardware cloth--they sit on a cookie baking sheet.

After I dump my PC, BBs, and bullets into a colander to separate the bullets from the rest I just pour the bullets onto the trays in a single layer

after baking I dump them in a baking pan, see below, to cool. Give them shake to keep the bullets from sticking together. It sure cuts down on time getting them ready for the oven

[Willbird]

PVC is one of those materials that generates lots of static electricity. It would work excellently for powder coating using the shake-n-bake method. The reason that #5 recycled plastic containers are recommended over PVC containers is because the recycled containers cost a lot less.

We have a molding department where I work, the molding presses are 1000-2500 ton, tooling gets heated to 350F. At one time we used vacuum for some tools and parts so we had 3 big vacuum pumps in a room and PVC pipe ran overhead all over our press floor. There were differential vacuum gauges on either side of some big canister filters. When the filters got dirty we had to swap them. There were grounding wires on the filter housings but the static would STILL nail you pretty good. The air moving through the PCV caused the static I think.

Wondering if you move a lot of air through your PVC using maybe a shop vac if it would build up a useful static charge ?

[hermans]

Very interesting....I use a normal yogurt container, don't even know if it is a 5 or a 2 type container.
I also do not use BB's, just Smoke's powder and shaking the boolits for maybe 30 seconds maximum, and they are perfectly covered, irrespective of the humidity which is normally between 40 and 70 %.
I might give a PVC container a go, but my current setup as above works perfectly....if it isn't broken, do not fix it!