Powder coating was easier then I thought

[Swagman00]

It took half the time doing a 415 count of 124 gr .357 then it was casting today. If you're on the fence, try it.

I found the mini oven for $20 at Wal-mart and the A/C screen at HD for five bucks. Cutting it in half and bending the centers up allowed me to pull one out and throw the other in with efficiency.

Bye-bye LLA!

[NeilMo]

Looks great. What brand of powder are you using?

[Swagman00]

Looks great. What brand of powder are you using?

The cheap Harbor Freight stuff. I accidentally bought the matte black and found results terrible, so I picked up the white and did a 60W/40B mix. I really like the slightly speckled grey color.

Another bit of help was using a shake container with a metal interior lining to "charge" the bullets for powder adherence. The plastic containers didn't quite do it, but a Planters peanut can works wonders.

[bohoki]

far out i would have never thought to mix white and black i bought yellow and red they look like clown bullets

[BigBronco]

The Harbor freight flat black is abrasive and should not be used. It may cause barrel damage.

[bohoki]

The Harbor freight flat black is abrasive and should not be used. It may cause barrel damage.

oh man i guess harbor freight doesn't do the colors anymore

not sure what would make the flat black abrasive but good warning i gues

[Swagman00]

The Harbor freight flat black is abrasive and should not be used. It may cause barrel damage.

Can't be that much of a problem at 40% content under 1000 fps for target ammo. The shine on these guys is pretty good.

I'll test run it next week. Others from Cast Boolits seem to have no problem as-is 100% matte coat.

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?247838-Hf-matte-black-powder-coating

[BigBronco]

The Harbor freight red always worked the best for me. Chech with local powder coat shops. I got some left over colors for free
Got to make some pink ones for the wife.

[BigBronco]

OP how ate you applying the powder. Wet or Dry?

[Swagman00]

OP how ate you applying the powder. Wet or Dry?

Dry tumble. Tried the Acetone first, laquer thinner second then tumble dry third.

The wet applications never worked out right all the time. It was always a roll of the dice as to how many of each batch came out decent or improperly coated...then melted down for another batch. I was wasting materials and time.

I won't go back to wet at all. Dry works perfect.

[bohoki]

i swirl around my dry lead in an ice cream bucket with the powder for about a minutes then pour them out on a basket i made from expanded steel stucco mesh then pop them in a toast-r-oven i got off craigslist that someone allowed a hot pocket to explode in

[BigBronco]

I came up with a cool way of tumbling. I got me some of them screw top plastic containers. Used an over chamfered -sharp as a punch to knock out the center of the lid. Installed a mandrel then chucked the whole system to a cordless drill for the coating tumble.

[Bumslie]

The cheap Harbor Freight stuff. I accidentally bought the matte black and found results terrible, so I picked up the white and did a 60W/40B mix. I really like the slightly speckled grey color.



Another bit of help was using a shake container with a metal interior lining to "charge" the bullets for powder adherence. The plastic containers didn't quite do it, but a Planters peanut can works wonders.

Upgrade to a better powder. It did wonders for me compared to harbor freight.

I bought mine from thepowdercoatstore.com

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[Swagman00]

Upgrade to a better powder. It did wonders for me compared to harbor freight.

I bought mine from thepowdercoatstore.com

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Hell, I nearly ordered from Eastwood or those guys initally. Then I thought that to just get my feet wet I'd aim for an inexpensive material first...so I went cheap with HF. Low buck = low risk.

I'll play with the nicer stuff later. My side gig isn't making the kind of money it did pre-covid.

[stilly]

My method is similar to others. Except I have moved all of my PC into individual bottles with squirt tops. I have plastic bottles with lids purchased from SMART N FINAL and I fill the bottle with about 1/3 airsoft bbs, squirt in about 2-3+ tables spoons of powder and then secure the lid, place in my tumbler with shoprags around it and let it tumble for 20 minutes. Use forceps to remove boolits, put them onto my nonstick silicon baking pad, bake them and move on...