Not just for your wife. Real men shoot pink boolits too. :-P
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My wife has already claimed the red candy coated ones for her .38 snubby. :roll:
Second try using HFPC Matte Black. These have been sized too.
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Thanks RF for getting me started, never would have bought a sprayer so the tumbler method got me into PCing. HOWEVER...
tried several batches of dry tumbling (think Freightman brought it up), simple, smooth results, amount of powder not critical, and quick.
I have to pick up each boolit by the nose from the tumbler can with some long hemostats, pliers or tweezers would work, don't see those marks after baking.
Not sure if it's static or what makes the powder stick to the boolits but seems to be just the right thickness. Tumble 10 min or less, bake 10 min at 400. I'm using HF red.
With nonstick foil even the bases are coated if that's important, they peel right off the foil.
Anyway thanks again, you can kick me outta the solvent club now!
Hi Squib,
Have you tried just dumping the powder coated boolits onto a hardware mesh tray? It'd save you the time of individually picking up the boolits and, you don't need the foil either. Just dump the boolits from the tumbler onto the tray, gently shake to knock off excess powder, then stick the tray right into the oven. Any blemishes are very minor. If you shake the tray immediately after taking it out of the oven, the still hot boolits will easily shake free from the grid.
Agree with you on leaving the solvent club! No more acetone!!!!
Happy tumbling!
When I tried setting them on window screen I was still using solvent, they were
a little runny, I probly used too much acetone. Left a crosshatch pattern
on the bases. Might try screen again with dry tumble.
Maybe a larger mesh would do better?
I think I promised pics, these are not great but whaddaya want from a cell phone:
40 cast, PCd, sized.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Z...-no/PC+40s.jpg
44, 40, 9 (for 357), and 9 (for 380).
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-6...PC+boolits.jpg
I'm gonna try it on all my molds.
Might have to get more molds.
Nice looking, Squibload. You're all set! :Fire:
Might? That's how the game is played!8-)Quote:
Might have to get more molds.
Guys, I'm just tickled at how everyone seems to be finding their own niche that is giving such great results. None of us can ever say this isn't an adventure... :D
I've been loading up that same .40SW load but mine don't look at pretty...
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It sure doesn't stop them from punching holes in the paper though!!!
I couldn't resist and i tried this method. HF only had Black and Yellow PC paint on the shelf. it is on sale for $4 and everyone bought the red. The Yellow and black needed 2-3 coats to "fully" cover bullet. and it 3rd coat made the bullets to big for sizer so i had to give them a little lube to get them to go through sizer. 1 coat was blotchy, 2nd coat was a little better and would probably work, but not pretty. flat black ends up being kinda course on the outside. i tried my tumbler but the bullets would not coat. all the powder went to one small area in the tumbler and the bullets just danced around the whole bowl. never coated well, so i did it in a peanut Butter jar. worked better. used 1 TSP PC for 100 9mm boolits. still had some powder left in the jar after 4-5 minutes of hand tumbling. shot some yesterday and they all shoot fine. What am i doing wrong. BTW i baked at 400 degrees for 20 min in my toaster oven and laser temp gauge showed 401 degrees on the boolits in the oven.
The black isn't known to work with dry tumble but works great with the wet tumble. The white and yellow seem to give mixed results. I prefer the red for tumbling dry as it sticks fairly well and when I do use the spray gun the red works fine for that as well.
MaxBob, looks good, long as they shoot that's what counts, anyway it's hard to see 'em when they're flyin'!
Bigred: " ...they all shoot fine. What am i doing wrong." Nothin'!
I suspect there might be humidity in FL, might warm your boolits before powdering.
Not like I'm an expert but it's dry here & the powder doesn't clump together.
Try baking 10 min, seems to be enough.
I don't preheat my oven and I bake mine and set the timer for 12ish minutes.
That sounds good. I checked the temp with my lead thermometer
& left the dial setting there, door switch turns it on & off.
Bought 2 more pounds at HF Thursday, still $3.99 ea.
anyone tried using the airsoft plastic pellets when dry tumbling to create a static charge...only done it once so far and tumbled for about 4 minutes, result was sort of blotchily paint finish out of the oven,did them a 2nd time and thing's got better......am discovering that this is sort of like the old guy that walk's into the package store...look's around and say's to the owner.. "SO MANY CHOICES, SO LITTLE LIVER "
Well boys, Beagle turned me onto the dry-tumble with the airsoft pellets a while back, and I gotta say---it's just a peach! This stuff just keeps getting better all the time. So, I guess, contrary to the thread, I ain't using the solvent method anymore these days. Good to know it works, but the dry tumble is MUCH better.