Ammunition & Hand Loading > Cartridge and Shotshell reloading
Powder Coating Lead Bullets
unfy:
So far, some notes:
Safety, blah blah blah. Powder coat powder aint good for ya, grab some cheap face masks or better yet a proper gas mask / respirator. Some latex/nylon/nitrile gloves are also a requirement. Use in a ventilated area. When ya cure/bake the stuff, it'll smoke a little (not a lot), and it'll be fumey. Do so outdoors or in well ventilated shop etc.
a) I didn't pick a bullet that had a fillet issue when I sized it (only sized one, was in a rush). I don't think it'd necessarily strip it off -- the PC is kinda like... well.. slightly rubbery plasticy paint after it's done. Super fine sand paper would prolly get it off without much issue. I'll go through and size and load them tonight and will report how sizing handles things.
b) taking a sheet of metal and screwing / soldering / whatever bolts or sheet metal heads to it would prolly do fine for getting bullets lifted up off of the 'ground' so that the fillet doesn't form. this was discussed a lot in the CB thread, dunno if anyone actually did it. Real simple to do though.
c) spacing might have been fine... there are some that I didn't get a super duper great job on the coating perfectly... but again, i suck at rattle cans so that was to be expected. I'll assume 1 inch centers will do just fine.
d) with the pictures above, yes i did powder coat some normally-would-reject bullets as well. was low on cast stuff so just went with it.
e) it's like painting with heavy smoke or with a powdered sugar gun. you'll want a 3-4 sided bit of cardboard / project board to help keep overspray contained.
f) 20psi worked wonderfully i think, do note: total newb
g) i gave the lead an acetone bath and thorough dry time before doing this to remove any finger oil
h) this was down right easy to do... and not that time consuming. bigger oven for more curing at once is prolly gonna be in my future much later... and getting some time in actual PC spraying will improve quality of coats etc.
unfy:
--- Quote from: GreyGeek on March 29, 2013, 06:47:41 PM ---TOR (The Onion Ring) isn't as secure as people think. I used to run TOR but after researching its insecurities, and the fact that government can control the admin at the exit server, I decided it wasn't worth the hassle.
--- End quote ---
This is undoubtedly a discussion for another thread... but for two cents:
The Silk Road busts weren't accomplished due to problems with TOR - they were done via old fashion police work and social engineering.
Also, Silk Road operates (or operated? i dunno if it's still up or not) entirely within the TOR network, it doesn't use exit nodes. There are plenty of tor-only sites.
Many of the issues discussed concerning TOR sites or breaks in them etc are the work of other faulty software, not TOR itself. This would be idiots that take a link found in TOR and open them in a normal browser, or security holes in browsers/pdfs/etc blah blah blah.
I think the only useful attack against TOR related stuff that I've seen is in relation to packet size / finger printing of common stuff. Kinda like the wireless encryption breaking stuffs (a common packet repeated enough lets ya break it eventually... ie: you can identify what it's contents are with near certainty due to how common the packet is like a connection open / SYN, then work out the key from there).
Lastly, there's always freenet if ya don't like TOR :).
unfy:
Oh yeah, wanted to post a note.
Federal law has some guidelines on ammo that aint allowed. A jacket that comprises more than 25% by weight of the bullet, steel (or certain other metal) cores, and things that are basically designed to defeat body armor.
Rifle rounds don't have similar limitations... and my old man joked about getting a 30-06 or 303 round with a tungsten core in it.... I never made such a thing, but it shouldn't be too hard to make heh.
Annnnnywayyy...
PC bullets don't defeat body armor or anything like that. They do have lower friction stuff according to the CB thread - people were reading higher chrony values out of PC bullets compared to lubed lead bullets under same charge. They also showed a PC bullet strike against a metal plate... it didn't do anything fancy or penetrate or anything like that.
So... PC bullets don't run afoul of the federal hand gun bullet limitations.
Just an FYI ;)
unfy:
Hurry up Dangerous, I wanna hear your take on it :).
I'll be going to walmart tonight to pick up some ultra cheap baking sheets to attempt my nose-down jig.... and then casting a bunch of bullets when I get home so that I can continue experimenting tomorrow.
And yes, tomorrow I'll be going to the BH to test fire these things :).
unfy:
First batch loaded.... I must admit it looked weird doing it and it looks weird in the tray :)
175-185gr of wheel weight lead, powder coated, 6.0gr of unique.
Loaded to jacketed pressures just cause I wanna beat the hell out of it ;)
And now a series of pictures for BK. In each series (separated by lines) -- First pic = before sizing. Second pic = after sizing.
Didn't knock anything off really.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version