Ammunition & Hand Loading > Cartridge and Shotshell reloading
Powder Coating Lead Bullets
unfy:
--- Quote from: DangerousDrummer on May 11, 2013, 11:39:24 AM ---The high speed are going to have to be pretty precise for accuracy. My 285 gn came out sideways at higher speeds.
I think we should not call these bullets "powder coated" anymore. Instead let's call them "Jihadi Lipsticks" just to piss everyone off. Just sayin... After all it is not illegal to be politically incorrect... yet.
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I still giggle at the pic ya posted under thread of same name ;).
Was it BKOENIG or BRADKROLL that was supposed to be experimenting with this by now ? Mmmmm ????
Anyhoo, I'm about to go play with hollow point mold.
GOSH DARNIT! I forgot some matches. Haven't smoked the mold yet. RAWR. (doing this at work).
This means I gotta put everything inside the door here at work, go to wally world, buy some stinkin matches... come back to work, dig everything back out... etc. At least I haven't turned on the pot yet \o/
bkoenig:
--- Quote from: unfy on May 10, 2013, 04:21:42 PM ---
BKOENIG ... have you gotten to fiddle with this yet ? Surely tax season is over by now ?
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Haven't had a chance yet...got taxes paid, but now it's trade show season at work and planting season on the farm, plus a few weddings and other miscellaneous obligations. I haven't had a free weekend in ages and the weeknights have been just as busy.
SS_N_NE:
--- Quote from: unfy on May 11, 2013, 02:03:46 PM ---I forgot some matches. Haven't smoked the mold yet.
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Disposable butane lighters (or similar) work as well to smoke mold cavities. Less messing around.
DangerousDrummer:
--- Quote from: SS_N_NE on May 11, 2013, 08:17:35 PM ---Disposable butane lighters (or similar) work as well to smoke mold cavities. Less messing around.
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I use a map gas torch without any O2, it really smokes it good, almost too good as I had it so thick in one spot you could see it very slightly deformed on the bullet nose on the 420s. I think it is amazing that something as light as smoke, can stay in the mold in spite of something as heavy as lead. Must have something to do with molecular size and not molecular weight.
I also preheat my mold with a propane torch. Not too much on the AL but pretty hot on the steel.
unfy:
Ran to wally world, 97 cent box of matches did just fine heh.
I've been tempted to start using stand alone electric burners to heat molds... but the lead pot seems to do just fine. Perhaps it's not as exacting, but it's free and works just fine.
I'm not entirely sure how the soot works... just know that it does. I'd have to guess it nestles in nicer ... so... molecular size is probable. Then again, is it the soot itself or some kind of liquid-ish-fume that does the lubrication ?
Never really considered a lighter... didn't seem to put out much smoke so discounted it immediately. Will have to give it a try if I have a lighter handy next time need to do it.
Some folks claim ya don't need to smoke your molds... particularly with hollow point molds. I dunno... it's easy to do and seems to work great... so... whatever. I'll continue to smoke'em :)
bkoenig: grrrrr :P. Understandable, but grrrrrr
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