Ammunition & Hand Loading > Cartridge and Shotshell reloading
Powder Coating Lead Bullets
unfy:
Well... lazy susan assembled. Should do as needed <3.
Got something of a tray finished. My original goal ... well.. yeah, not gonna be built with these materials or tools.
I'll note that there might be some concern, I dunno. Basically... the walmart cookie sheet is a thin steel. Thus, the holes aint perfect and since the thin sheet metal is a bit wibbly.... getting uniform cut off point will be a no-go.
I dunno if the lil bit of PC difference from bullet to bullet will make a difference or not.
edit:
lead's fairly soft, i wonder if shallow and really thin thumb tacks / brads / whatever in the nose of a bullet are possible ? here lead, time to go fiddle.
basically, i wouldn't care about the lip/filet on the nose...
edit again:
ok, yeah, not that soft :D
These TC bullets do stand on their nose fairly decently though. I might have to buy a file to keep specifically with the lead pot to rub bullet noses on if they aint flat.
NENick:
Unfy, if you want to drill the holes and get the nails, I can weld up the design mentioned above.
unfy:
The tray and lazy susan. The ground clamp goes to the base of the lazy susan, and 'just cause I can just to be sure' - alligator clip the tray to the top of the lazy susan.
The cheap cardboard box and stuff 'paint hood' heh.
How the bullets came out:
For bkoenig: I did another 'sitting on foil' batch as well. Got the PC a bit thicker and the filet problem was more pronounced. Peeling off stuff worked decently for big stuff, and indeed sizing die did knock off quite a bit. I've got a small ring of powder coat at the base of sizing punch.
bkoenig:
Looking good.
I'm going to try some rifle bullets when I get set up.
unfy:
Went to the range today ... put 21 base-coated bullets through. Leading looks to be less than the nose coated, no failure to feed issues, and they're pretty good accuracy wise. I'll get pics together when I get home tonight.
I do have ideas on getting a complete coat done, more on that later too
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