OK, that makes some sense. Are you not sizing after powder coating?
Powder coating for handgun rounds - tutorial
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OK, that makes some sense. Are you not sizing after powder coating?
I'll generally run a bunch through a .358 sizer to check final size and if no problems I call it good. When I got in a rush for a few batches and cooked the bullets on their sides I had to size them all since I got a bit of flow or rough spots where bullets touched when the powder heated up. Now I just use forceps and place them all standing.
I have just got in the habit of taking the time to size them after cooking no matter what. I feel that a perfect .358 all the time had contributed to great accuracy in these and I am willing to spend the extra 30 minutes a thousand to accomplish this
I use Hi-Tek bullet coating. It is a little more work, powdered coating is mixed with acetone, the bullets are coated at a mix of 7.5 ml to 250 bullets. Let dry , cook in toaster oven for 10 min at 400 degrees (off the top of my head ). Recoat same, then size them.
This is being used big timein Australia, the US and couldn'tbe imported as used to be in liquid form. They have recently sell it in powdered for just add acetone. I am importing g it from Australia.
I will send some pictures in a minute.
This is being used big timein Australia, the US and couldn'tbe imported as used to be in liquid form. They have recently sell it in powdered for just add acetone. I am importing g it from Australia.
I will send some pictures in a minute.
I have a Magma sizer so this actually takes longer than to lube and size. I figure if I can't do them in one coat it's not worth the effort except when maybe lead free is needed, I have never had big leading issues. That said I am doing them in one coat with just the powder. I found that adding acetone just made a sticky mess, I came up with that on my own not knowing others were doing it. I did a bunch with various epoxies and that seemed to cover in one coat as well. Just bought some corneal tweezers from LV that have points facing each other, very fine points, this way when they rotate to be base down there should be no loss or coating when I drop them on my cookie sheet, have not actually used them yet, you know about great ideas!!
Forgot to mention that my powder comes from 365 Powder in Canada. It is also free of some chemical that I forget the name of right now. Probably best to avoid it or we will be replacing lead with other stuff that may be worse.
Forgot to mention that my powder comes from 365 Powder in Canada. It is also free of some chemical that I forget the name of right now. Probably best to avoid it or we will be replacing lead with other stuff that may be worse.
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I'm genuinely curious how well this works pushing rounds faster. I guess one upside is that no one is going to worry about aluminum gas checks if you powdercoat the round. On the other hand though, I'm seeing this stuff as cheap as 7$ a lb from powder 365 which means 16,000 tips coated for that much powder ( based off your earlier .5 oz to 500 ratio ).
