After 3 years I still use powders from his first shipment. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Powder coating is basically taking a polymer-based powder and applying to the bullet, then through baking will create a very dense coating. Use of a spray gun is called I was watching my friend fiddling with the many local powders available to him (which he had to buy), spending so much time cleaning bullets and jars after his unsuccessful tests. A toaster oven was purchased for $20 at a local store, with a coupon and a discount. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.

It helped me, so I could at least finish that problematic batch.MP MOLDS is also making moulds with dia just for powder coating. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. Pressure is what distorts a cast bullet and ruins accuracy. He started to test different powders from big companies and he made a list of powders which worked with DT method. Suggestions for oven temperature settings and baking time vary. (or 15 if preheated) Set to 400F/200C.Take them out of the oven and allow them to cool. In this case, the material is lead-alloy bullets that give up electrons when brought into contact with polyethylene.Some handloaders who powder coat bullets attempt to increase static electricity by adding plastic Airsoft BBs or copper-coated BBs to powder. (smaller ones like .223 would be 100, larger ones like 45 ACP 230’s might only be 30 at a time).Add 1 teaspoon of powder for the first load if you have new BB’s and container. I gently rolled the bullets into a strainer positioned over a pail and lightly jiggled the strainer to drain excess powder. Some of the NOE 453-210-RF bullets were shot from a .45 Auto into a stack of dry newspapers, and most of the coating remained on the shanks of the recovered bullets. I’ll spend that time powder coating rifle bullets for hunting and target shooting so I don’t have to peer through a screen of smoke. You can also blow excess powder with breath.I pick my rifle bullets with tweezers and sometimes pistol bullets with nitrile glove. The clear plastic allowed me to see when bullets where suitably covered, but the bags eventually split and leaked powder.This adhesion of powder to bullets relies on electricity, just like the powder coating gun. High humidity can turn your perfect coatings into “what the hell is wrong”. I’ve read everything from 400 degrees for 20 minutes to 300 degrees at half that time. I use this method, because it worked so well from the very first try. The paint does not crack or peel off when sizing bullets. From there the bullets were slowly rolled into a pan lined with nonstick aluminum foil. After shaking bullets,A toaster oven is the most common heat source for melting powder onto bullets. Diameter increased to .311 inch with one coat of powder.The finish on the bullets was slippery, and the bullets easily pushed in and out of a .309-inch sizer die. One solution was to take Smoke’s powders from their sealed container and after 3 years they worked as new.To reduce humidity problems I have been PC indoors, in my basement. An awful lot (if not the majority) of people now powder coat their cast bullets. If you see there is no powder left at the bottom, and the coverage is not good enough, add a bit more powder and repeat swirling and shaking.Pick up bullets one at a time with tweezers or nitrile glove.

An inexpensive oven comes in handy.The shiny finish shows that the powder has melted and cured on these 7mm bullets.Two coats of Harbor Freight red put a thick coat of paint on bullets cast from an LBT-358-200 FN mould. It will not remove powder when picking coated bullets. Or just take everything (plastic container, bullets, powder) into air conditioned room and leave it there for 2 hours or even more. Polyester powders are the most common. The oven rack holds an 8.5-inch square pan with some room to spare.

A slight space between bullets prevents them from sticking together and eliminates rough spots from forming where they touched.Powder coating is a fairly clean process. Among them was a gentleman with nickname Smoke4320.

But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.This website uses cookies to improve your experience. Because they look so cool, I’ll even keep on hand some .30-30 and .45 Auto ammunition loaded with powder-coated bullets.These bullets were cast from an NOE 453-210-RF mould.