My powder coating method

[JWFilips]

Brad
Is that the screen you bake them on also?
I may have missed that

 

[Brad]

Yes it is. I just wired some 1/4” mesh to the baking racks that came with the oven.
Works well enough so I leave it alone.

 

[JWFilips]

Thanks

 

[Tomme boy]

Same way I do it. I use the baskets from Bed Bath an Beyond too. But I use them to just sift the extra powder off the bullets. I also have a Stainless steel food strainer like this. Not the actual one but like it.

https://www.amazon.com/Strainer-Sta...keywords=food+strainer&qid=1589264465&sr=8-53

I dump the bullets out of the container and sift the powder into a throw away aluminum pan under the strainer. I then dump them onto a pan that came with my oven with parchment paper so they don't stick to the pan. I use compressed air to clean the strainer if I go to a different color.

 

[Glaciers]

Shake N bake. No bb’s, dumped into basket. Eastwood super gloss clear. View attachment 14789

Waco your bullets pictured look good. The Coating doesn't look thick. What kind of growth in diameter are you getting? I'm Able to deal with install checks and pre size, then coat, then size again. That part is working good, but the nose gains .002 to .003 which is a problem.

 

[Brad]

Mine grow .002 pretty reliably. For most handgun bullets that isn’t an issue but for many rifle bullets it changes that nose enough to possibly be an issue.
PC is not a good way to go for bore riders that already have a good nose fit.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

I feel ya need more powder Brad. But if its good for you so be it.

Here is my process. As I say I shoulda turned camera on for swirling. But its same as you do. The more contact your bullet can get to the plastic the better charge of static is built up. "Shaking" sos et do that "swirling" does.

Hope it helps.

CW

 

[Brad]

I generally get better coverage but the humid air taught me.
The powder I am using seems to have pretty large flakes so it looks bad before baking but seems to really flow well.
I have some silver aluminum powder that covers far better before baking and seems to look very similar after baking.

The dark grey powder has a pretty good gloss to it and I think Ian is right that higher gloss seems to work better for us.

 

[Brad]

I coated about 600 bullets in a total of 4 bakes. Took me maybe 30 min in the garage. I spent far more time waiting for the 35 min bake than anything.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

This powder coats better than many. Its a Dupont beige color.

Humidity dosent play a part in my coverage when I have a good coating color but absolutely styfels a poor coating color. I still cast and powder coat in the rain and heat of the summer. I just choose "good" colors.

All powders and even all colors from good manufacturers are NOT CREATED EQUAL!!!

You need to experiment. You can make a mediocre powder quite good mixing with a real Good powder. But sometimes ya get real strange happenings. Like for Example a poorly coating Yellow and a good coating Blue. Mixed together you see a green. As you would expect! But shank n bake bullets and magically they come out BLUE!!! Cause even tho mixed its not a fluid mix so only blue particles adhered to the static charged bullets. Crazy stuff!!!

CW

 

[Sandspider500]

I stand em up. I've found that a $2 Walmart non stick baking pan works better than foil or parchment paper.

 

[Tomme boy]

Smokes Kawasaki green as I call it, covers the best for the powders I have tried. The temp or humidity does not effect it at all for me. I left some of it out in a pan for 3 months in the basement and it covered just as well as the powder that is sealed up.

I just got some Traffic Purple, it covers OK at best. I noticed that after 4 tubs of bullets the other day it was starting to get really thin. Almost as bad as HF Red trying to tumble. I think I need to find another jar to shake them in. It is labeled as a 5 like my 3 other tubs but it feels really thin and soft. I think Aldi's is getting in whatever they can for their food stuff.

 

[Ian]

Kawasaki Green from PBTP does very well for me too. The cure schedule is 350⁰F for 10 minutes at PMT.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Haha. Yup thats a favorite!! I actually just ordered another pound couple Days ago!

CW

 

[Ian]

I need to order another pound as well, I've used below half the jar. Haven't wasted but maybe a pinch of it, either. The ASBB shake-pick-place-bake method wastes virtually none. That's a LOT of bullets, probably 8-9 thousand so far coated in that color and half of them shot already between the BLKs and .45 ACPs. My go-to, impress my friends color is still Sky Blue by PBTP, it's about the color of the "post reply" button on this forum and similar to one of the Ford engine paint colors from the 70s. Polyester TGIC 100% gloss from any reputable source in the medium to light blues seems to be a guaranteed winner.

 

[Brad]

Jim and Walter have me about convinced to get some clear. I like having bullets that look like bullets.

 

[Ole_270]

Ran close to 500 45-255rf through the oven this afternoon in a steady rain, all it's done for the last 3 days. I used a grey color that Randy Rat sold on the other site a few years ago. Not sure what it is, but it goes on pretty good, fairly thick. I ran a test batch just to see if it would work in the rain, humidity was high enough that the floor of the shop was wet. Test batch looked good, so I went ahead and got a decent supply set aside. That and a gloss black that I got from pbtp are the only ones I've tried. Having a hard time getting myself to order the brighter colors, but as Ian said, the yellow green and medium blues seem to be about foolproof. Need to order some clear one of these days.

 

[Ian]

My bullets look like Skittles but nobody makes fun of how they shoot.

 

[fiver]

I run that same grey Randy had and occasionally bump it with some HF red.

 

[Brad]

My bullets look like Skittles but nobody makes fun of how they shoot.

I don’t think original Skittles have blue?