I am stirll loading those coated bullets from that experiment. The crap still keeps building up on the seating stem. I look forward to when they are all gone.
That powder coating looks nice, but I tend to load and shoot 1000 rounds at a go, and powder coating looks a bit slow and tedious.
So far I've done 2 batches. I think PC works good but so far, for me production is no where close to fast. I would not want to sit down and do 1000 the way I'm going it now.
I had a similar issue with a bunch of 45 RN I powder coated. Talked to my Binlaw about the problem and he suggested to turn up the heat in the oven by 35C over what I did the job with originally and it should clear up the problem.
He runs a powder coating shop as a primary income source and knows what he's talking about.
It would be much easier to run a test batch through the oven again, at a higher temperature than originally used to find out and wouldn't take much time.
Batch #1 the 400F parchment paper was kinda dark. Before I did batch #2, I picked up a $10 Home Hardware oven thermometer. The 375F setting on the old Toaster Oven I used for Batch #1 was actually 425F.
I've been wondering does more 'mass'/bullets require longer the cooking time?
It can be slow if you are anal and do silly crap like stand all your bullets up spaced out perfectly. Mine get dumped from the ice cream pail onto steel mesh then a quick shake over the pail to remove the excess and then into the oven for 20 minutes. I can do several thousand in a couple hours.
Don't let them pile on top of each other and don't worry about the small spots that end up not covered because of sticking to the mesh or another bullet. You just need a seal to prevent gasses slipping past. Anything beyond that is aesthetic. Coating with PC is super easy if you don't make it hard like some seem compelled to do.
Looking to speed up my production, reading thru more posts, I read your using 1/4" mesh. I've got some 1/4" mesh, I'm going to give it a go with Batch #3.
Straight bullets in the shake? Some suggest adding plastic beads to the shake? Batch #1 & #2 I added plastic beads to the shake.
Went to the Club Wed. morning and shot a bunch of Batch #2, 38Spl loads, in my S&W 686. I cleaned the revolver when I got home, no sign of Tool Blue any where.
I neglected to say in my previous post, I did a deep clean of the Marlin 1894 357mag/38Spl after shooting Batch #1 and seen no sign of Tool Blue after shooting 357mag rounds.
One of these days when I'm not so busy
, I want to dig out the chrono and do a 'With PC' - 'With out PC' speed comparison.
