I couldn't get S&B to work with HF red, used the gun instead. Bake in PID controlled oven. Now I use Smoke's red, S&B, cool on a hot plate with ceramic floor tile as heat spreader. The hot plate starts cold, stays at flow temp for a long time. Then I have a cover to place on it for curing bake. I use BBS, not a lot of powder. Swirl for couple minutes (sometimes hold with baking gloves if humidity is high), then a popcorn 'shuffle' up and down, swirl some more. Pick out with hemostats and drop into 45acp holder with 'holes' drilled out. popcorn 'shuffle' for us old guys, forward & backward vertical plane rotary motion. Gets powder airborn without banging up the bullets too much. Impact must work as many have used vibratory tumblers. I don't do more than ~75 rifle bullets at a time. Pick out the good ones, do the bad ones second time. The AS BBs wear out or get smashed as when I change to a new batch, many are really small.
I've also tumble lubed with a light coat of BLL (no solvent) on some that I thought were light coated, worked fine. If you use solvent in the BLL it will degrade the PC. It keeps the residue in the barrel to minimum.
I've also tumble lubed with a light coat of BLL (no solvent) on some that I thought were light coated, worked fine. If you use solvent in the BLL it will degrade the PC. It keeps the residue in the barrel to minimum.
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