BBerguson
Official Pennsyltuckian
Hello Everyone,
My first post here...
I just watched one of the videos posted by one of the members here and noticed he complained about the drips from the bottom of the pot. I have a great solution for that but I’m going to back up to tell you how I got here...
I just recently started powder coating my cast bullets. I bought a two pack of silicone baking sheets to use but had to cut about 5 inches off the sheet for it to fit in my toaster oven. After continuously removing the lead from the base under my casting pot one day it finally dawned on me to use the 5inch piece of silicone sheet under the pot to catch the lead. The pot still drips but now I can remove it with zero fuss and super fast. Literally brush it out of the way or slide the sheet to an undripped on area. Now my casting sessions are much less swearing sessions.
About the paint. I bought a pound of Ford blue from Eastwood and the bullets turned out flawless with it. Can’t say I’m a fan of the color though so I was getting a little low and restocked with some different colors (Eastwood). I purchased a pound of gloss black and periwinkle gray. It was the cheapest they had and well, I’m cheap. I quickly found the black wasn’t as “powderly” as the ford blue and it “clumped” on the bullets. So, I mixed it with the blue (also with the periwinkle gray) 1 part black to 2 parts of the other. Now the paint is a better consistency with no clumping and black and blue made for stunning looking bullets. Black and gray look good but not as nice as the black/blue.
Anyways, I cast and painted a lot of bullets but have only shot a few so the jury is still out on theIr performance.
So, with all that said, silicone baking sheet under the post saves a lot of frustration.
Bryan
My first post here...
I just watched one of the videos posted by one of the members here and noticed he complained about the drips from the bottom of the pot. I have a great solution for that but I’m going to back up to tell you how I got here...
I just recently started powder coating my cast bullets. I bought a two pack of silicone baking sheets to use but had to cut about 5 inches off the sheet for it to fit in my toaster oven. After continuously removing the lead from the base under my casting pot one day it finally dawned on me to use the 5inch piece of silicone sheet under the pot to catch the lead. The pot still drips but now I can remove it with zero fuss and super fast. Literally brush it out of the way or slide the sheet to an undripped on area. Now my casting sessions are much less swearing sessions.
About the paint. I bought a pound of Ford blue from Eastwood and the bullets turned out flawless with it. Can’t say I’m a fan of the color though so I was getting a little low and restocked with some different colors (Eastwood). I purchased a pound of gloss black and periwinkle gray. It was the cheapest they had and well, I’m cheap. I quickly found the black wasn’t as “powderly” as the ford blue and it “clumped” on the bullets. So, I mixed it with the blue (also with the periwinkle gray) 1 part black to 2 parts of the other. Now the paint is a better consistency with no clumping and black and blue made for stunning looking bullets. Black and gray look good but not as nice as the black/blue.
Anyways, I cast and painted a lot of bullets but have only shot a few so the jury is still out on theIr performance.
So, with all that said, silicone baking sheet under the post saves a lot of frustration.
Bryan
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