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Jeff H

NW Ohio
HOLD THE PHONE!

DO NOT buy the cheap silicone mats I linked to above!

At less than 300F they smoke like crazy and get all weird!!! "Wonky," as the wife would say.



EDIT: By the way, that piece of parchment I was gloating about,.... it was all l curled up this morning from humidity in the shop over night.:oops:
 
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Mitty38

Mitty38

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Don't buy cheap parchment paper either.

Got some from Dollar tree,a buck a roll. It was rated at 400 degrees my coat bakes at 400 degrees.Ended up scraping paper off of quite a, few. Like 700 of so bases. Powder still flowed good on the bottom and did not soak in or anything. Just the paper stuck, enough to be an issue.

My other stuff was rated 450 never had and issue.
 
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fiver

fiver

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well i can assure you wax paper don't work unless you like making paper gas checks, which might be real helpful if you want to use a powder that tends to stick and etch into the powder coat.
 
Rick H

Rick H

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I use parchment paper although I bought some of the silicone mini ice trays to try. I use a flat piece of 1/8" aluminum as a tray and use paper clips to hold the parchment at the corners. It cures the curling problem. I have over a dozen heats on the current sheet. The stuff looks horrible, all brown and discolored, but still works as advertised
 
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D Crockett

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I would like to thank each and ever one that has helped me with this project. thanks to you all I got my first 2nd and 3rd sets of powder coating bullets done today. going to load some of them up in the morning and got to the range on Thursday for some testing . looking forward to that.now I have to figure out how to get some lube off some bullets that I did last year . I tried boiling water but they still have a thin coat of wax still on them. any one have a idea on that problem???? D Crockett
 
Brad

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
My method of cleaning lubed bullets involves a pot of molten lead. Think of the lube as a kind of flux.
I would rather melt them back down that try to clean them of lube.
This from a guy with 2 five gallon buckets of lubed bullets to melt down. Lots of smoke in my future.
 
fiver

fiver

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you can try some mineral spirits or acetone.
i know mineral spirits will remove lanolin and the like no problem.
 
Joshua

Joshua

Taco Aficionado/Salish Sea Pirate/Part-Time Dragon
I always seem to have a gallon or two of old gasoline from last season. Sometimes it’s 50:1 two stroke mix, or just regular old 10% ethanol. A soak in that stuff followed with a rinse in denatured alcohol will degrease/dewax just about anything.

Side note: Bicycle racers who use melted paraffin as a chain lube use gasoline as the solvent when they clean their chains.
 
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D Crockett

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Happy New Year everyone. I did a batch of pc last night on some 44's that I had some had a nice heavy coat of paint on them . some had a lighter coat on them . my question is are the lighter coated ones ok to shoot ??? D Crockett
 
fiver

fiver

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should be just fine.
all your doing is making a barrier between the lead and the barrel, same principle as alox.
 
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D Crockett

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ok another question. can you take a bunch of different colors of powder coate paint and mix them all in one jar and get the same hard coat on your bullets ????? D Crockett
 
Mitty38

Mitty38

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Yes and no.
There are different types and bake temps- times.
As long as they are the same type with the same recommended bake time and temp......ish Go for it.

Other then that.....Crap shoot.

I have mixed leftovers before usually come out with ugly speckled egg looking stuff but coated and shot fine.
 
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CWLONGSHOT

CWLONGSHOT

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D Crockett said:
ok another question. can you take a bunch of different colors of powder coate paint and mix them all in one jar and get the same hard coat on your bullets ????? D Crockett
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SURE CAN!!! But get too many and ya will just get grey blah.
Emmitt is also correct but I have t had it be a problem.

sSomething also really strange. Even tho the powder is all mixed. Only "good" coating powders stick. So for example if you mix a great coating orange then ya mix a crappy coating green in same bottle and then S&B some bullets... They will very probably come out ORANGE!!
AND the hue of that orange will change with each batch as the better coating aspects of each power are "used up".

CW
 
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D Crockett

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next question instead of using hard lead to cast my bullets. can I use soft lead like roof flashing to cast my bullets. I have about 1/2 ton of soft lead but only about 400 lbs of hard lead.D Crockett soft bullets would be used for target shooting ???? after I powder coat them . D Crockett
 
CWLONGSHOT

CWLONGSHOT

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Absolutely softer bullets work Exceptionally well with powder coating.


Here is a chat I was recently asked on to answer powder coating questions. Maybe it can help you too.

CW
 
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