Powder coating bullet
- Thread starter philproulx
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Emerald coatings candy copper mixed with their glass clear works well. Took me a while to figure a good blend between the 2
elusiveshapesandforms
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it's a ''stain''' which is kind of absorbed by the lead,making the lead harder, and ''sealed'''.it help at avoiding ''vaporisation'''of the lead when the shot is fired,wont leaves any residue in the barrel,you must apply the product then cook the bullets for like 12 minutes depending the oven used.the process is quite straight forward,still,you need some experience with it VS your own oven to find the sweet spot in matter of cooking time.me,i'm at a point where i can triple coat my bullets.it won't add any thickness to the bullet.i bought 4KG of the old gold color,i'm good for the rest of my life.
if you want to see the finish product,look at the Xmetal ammunition,they uses hi tek in the red color.
Wrong.
Hi-tek is a polymer coating.
Not a stain
Does not get "absorbed"
Does not make the lead harder, but provides a hard covering
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- castlegar B.C.
How can you add 3 coats and not add diameter to your bullets. Hi tek added so much of a layer to the nose of my bullets they would no longer chamber. Powder coat is cheaper and works up to full rifle velocity.
vagrantviking
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I like the Emerald clear too.
Princess Auto blue and black worked okay too but it's easier to get great results with the clear.
Princess Auto blue and black worked okay too but it's easier to get great results with the clear.
elusiveshapesandforms
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seriously,seems like you NEVER worked with hi tek.either that,OR your process was flawed entirely.
elusiveshapesandforms
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no...and yes.it DOES get absorbed partially by the lead,otherwise it wouldn't hold on-in.and yes,it gets the bullets harder .not harder in the sens of a gain in BHN,but the surface of the bullet is certainly harder while the core stays with the original BHN....don't forget that,being ''cooked''' will add to the hardness...for a certain amount of time.annealing is effective on lead too to a certain extend. i way prefer hi tek than hard polymer coating because polymer coating is like a capsule,and most of the time it kind of create an imbalance of the bullet,the bullet being non centered in its capsule.
although hardness can be a little less, the speed you drive them at still decides what hardness you need
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- castlegar B.C.
Being cooked will soften your bullets unless you water quench them immediately after the oven. And adding 3 coats of anything will increase the diameter of your bullet. Even a very small gain in nose diameter with some of my bullets will cause the nose to run into the leade.
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- castlegar B.C.
I use 2 parts candy copper and 1 part clear. Really swirl it around before you add the bullets. shake off as much excess as you can or it will be blotchy. The candy colors from emerald flow very well however. Seems even if you get a big looking bare patch the clear has completely covered that area. You may have luck with a strait candy copper but adding a bit of clear makes everything seem to coat better. That is just my experience with it.
elusiveshapesandforms
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i don't believes anything.i have over ten years of experience with hi tek,and over 20 with casting....you,on the other hand,not sure.
Listen...the process, and the information I have, I get from the Australian inventor of hi tek himself, with whom I speak regularly through a certain website and via emails;
my projectiles have even been used by hi tek's American importer (along with projectiles from other casters) to analyze the differentials resulting from the product application process.
I've been working with this sauce since it's inception, so your ''opinion'' is just that, an ''opinion'' based on next to nothing compared to what I, and thousands of others have experimented with it over the YEARS. and I can safely say that 3 layers of hi tek does not even add 1thou to the thickness and circumference of the projectile.....the hammer test tells the story anyways.
