Ammunition & Hand Loading > Cartridge and Shotshell reloading
Powder Coating Lead Bullets
unfy:
It's 22:30 ... my neighbors will be asleep and I'd rather not run my air compressor in the dead of night in an apartment (kinda rude). So tonight will be mostly construction, and possibly bullet casting ;). Spare bullets for the copper plating experiments is getting a little low... need to cast a bunch more heh.
I'll undoubtedly aluminum foil it up and load some and take'em to the range ASAP. Who knows, with pistols the bottom might not matter at all. Of course, this all assumes that I *don't* get the rig built tonight heh.
bkoenig:
Honestly, I wonder even with rifles if an uncoated bottom would help with accuracy. It might let the bullet bump up to bore size.
bkoenig:
--- Quote from: Hank on March 28, 2013, 09:21:03 PM ---You guys got me interested in boolit casting...perhaps a morning boolit casting jam session, followed by a noon time BBQ get together? I wanna learn.
I keep a old stove in my small detached garage for the wife to do her canning. Lots of oven space and I have thought about a powder coat set up before...hmm
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Where do you live? A group casting session followed by BBQ sounds interesting.
Except usually when I organize something like this everyone just ends up standing around the garage drinking beer and not doing any actual work.
unfy:
We've got Lincoln, Omaha, Nebraska City.
A triangle heh.
unfy:
The small toaster oven i picked up can handle a tray of about 7.5 inches by 9.75 inches.
At one inch spacing on centers (i have no idea if that's enough ?), this tray will handle 80 bullets at a time and leaves about half an inch between boolits.
I'll prototype it on aluminum foil first to see how it coats at that distance.
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