OOC: How are you determining that oven is at 400° ?I use an old used toaster oven to bake my bullets.... As for the
temperature mentioned above. I bake my bullets at 400 degrees.
OOC: How are you determining that oven is at 400° ?I use an old used toaster oven to bake my bullets.... As for the
temperature mentioned above. I bake my bullets at 400 degrees.
So it IS, in fact, a polyester resin powder (and not a nitrocellulose lacquer powder, which is very brittle) like all the other stuff we all use from Smoke and other sources.
Glad you discovered that. It should work with the right application techniques (it's engineered for ESPC as all powders are, but most poly resin powders will shake-n-bake) and correct baking time and temps. I think the lacquer misnomer came from the company's trademark on the package.
On the subject of OVENS:
I was referring to MY OWN PERSONAL use of my ESPC guns to coat other things than teeny weeny little boolits. Believe it or not there are/were some on here that use their kitchen cookstove oven to bake boolits in! I hope they stopped long ago. I have been doing this since 2013 and have seen & heard just about everything possible with trying to coat boolits!
Remember - the baking time is relative. You should use a pre-heated ACCURATE oven at 400F (check with a good oven thermometer, not the dial on the front). Bake for the allotted time AFTER the powder turns shiny on the boolits. Let them air cool a bit before dumping them in your container to avoid divots. You should have perfect boolits time after time.
But I recommend you buy your powders from Smoke on here. He tests all of them B4 ever offering them to us for sale. 100% good stuff!
Good luck on your future PC'ing adventures!!!!!!!!
I found some cast 40-170TC cast bullets that weren't powder coated. I shook them for 3 minutes and instead of pouring them out onto a screen, I carefully picked the bullets on and placed them on a sheet of non-stick aluminum foil. The bullets were baked at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. They looked like the bullet in the middle. I then allowed the bullets to cool until they were warm to the touch and then shook half of them for another coat of PC. The second batch was cooled and then powder coated for a second coat. The result was the same and they looked like the bullet on the right. Again, they were carefully picked up and placed on a sheet of non-stick aluminum foil. The bullet on the left is two coats of paint but I ran the bullets across a wire screen to remove excess powder. The bullet on the right is slightly better. I'm wondering if a HF PC gun will eliminate the discoloration and leave a nice even and smooth surface? Can I mail a teaspoon of this PC to test for me?
Last edited by BJung; 05-01-2022 at 12:51 AM. Reason: adding a photo
I will. It's the best way to get rid of them.
+1 for smokes powders. Great price and colors look great.
I am not picky and doing a large batch on a screen type pan has no issues for me.
I’m not going for crazy accurate either. 9mm target rounds
I tried powder coating again today. I seriously considered purchasing an Eastwood Powder Sprayer but decided to try using the vibrator/tumbler. I had concerns that I couldn't clean the powder paint out but i was wrong. Soap and water had removed the residue well. Before, I used the shake and bake method and it was tiring and tedious. Slightly more than halve of my paints needed two coats because the paint baked on with blotches. Using my tumbler and running it for 20 minutes, a fine powder was left on the bullets. I baked them and the first coats came out like these. The silver is actually a clear coat. The other is gold. And while thin, it's not blotchy.
Last edited by BJung; 05-31-2022 at 01:21 AM.
Very nice. Glad you tried it again.
FWIW, you can put a separate container (plastic) inside the tumbler to hold the bullets and powder. Means no mess to clean up.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |