Powder coating cast lead help.

Make a container out of ABS 3 or 4 inch pipe with a cap on they ends, use air soft BB’s shake well. The trick is to create lots of static electricity, ABS pipe does just that, read about it on the Cast Boollit forum haven’t looked back since
 
B said:
I'm very curious what you think of the method.
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One of the nice things about shake and bake is that there are no volatile organic compounds to flash off. Relatively non toxic.

not using acetone is one less headache/mess/cost(in my opinion), I purchased a powder coating gun, the easiest/best way to do it

The better the quality of the powder you use the better the coverage.

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yomomma said:
I purchased a powder coating gun, the easiest/best way to do it
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Just out of curiousity how do you coat the entire bullet with a powder coat gun since part of the bullet has to be touching the surface it is resting on and therefore can't get coated. Standing them up on their base would be the easiest for powder coating but that would leave the base uncoated and I would think that is one part of the bullet you definitely want coated.
 
ted_dent said:
Just out of curiousity how do you coat the entire bullet with a powder coat gun since part of the bullet has to be touching the surface it is resting on and therefore can't get coated. Standing them up on their base would be the easiest for powder coating but that would leave the base uncoated and I would think that is one part of the bullet you definitely want coated.
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In reference to rifle bullets and gas checks. I still tumble the few hand gun bullets I do

Same as

 
yomomma said:
In reference to rifle bullets and gas checks. I still tumble the few hand gun bullets I do

Same as

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Does the tinfoil stick to the bullets when you remove them. The very first batch of bullets I powder coated I placed on tinfoil because I didn't have parchment paper and they all ended up with a nice tinfoil base on the bullets.
 
ted_dent said:
Just out of curiousity how do you coat the entire bullet with a powder coat gun since part of the bullet has to be touching the surface it is resting on and therefore can't get coated. Standing them up on their base would be the easiest for powder coating but that would leave the base uncoated and I would think that is one part of the bullet you definitely want coated.
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I have found it immaterial if the bases are coated or not. Leading comes from gas erosion on the side-walls, not the base. I can see no difference in accuracy between clean-based slugs or shake-n-bake or the ones I have gun-coated nose down that have a base covering (I'm speaking "rifle slugs here not handgun")...as long as the finished product has an acceptable weight tolerance (mine is within 2 gr.) and has been sized to a uniform size, either way seems to work in my testing.

as for "gun coating" the bases, it can be quite easily done if preferred. Perforated cookie sheets are available from "Dollar Store" for $1.25 each that will allow you to insert slugs "nose-down" and just coat the shank & base. These sheets are alum. and conduct the electricity needed very well & the holes are easily customized to fit different bullet noses with a tapered punch. Takes about 15 min. to size a sheet ( I use a drill press with the travel limiter set to expand at a certain distance traveled) For 10 or 12 bucks I have enough to accommodate any mold design/size that I have at the moment.
 
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