Powder coated CAS bullets??

Mustang Gregg · February 03, 2014, 05:56:58 PM

Howdy, Pards!

Anyone following the "power coated" bullets saga on the SASS Wire?
Have any of you all powder coated the their bullets yet? Results?

Much obliged,
Mustang Gregg

Delmonico · February 03, 2014, 08:55:35 PM

What kind of powder? I've used Lee Liquid lube and coated them with powdered mica for about 25 years ager they were dry.

Mustang Gregg · February 03, 2014, 09:56:14 PM

Del:

It's powder coating.

You know the system that is usually for car parts, etc.
It is powder that is electrostatically sprayed to the bullet (or part) and baked at 400 degrees for a hard "paint".
From the examples they have shown on the internet, they are making jelly bean colored bullets.

Mustang

Delmonico · February 04, 2014, 07:37:21 AM

Well that seems rather dumb to me as well as a waste of money.

Deadeye Don · February 04, 2014, 09:36:12 AM

Are you talking about these?

http://www.snscasting.com/coated-bullets-1/

Sir Charles deMouton-Black · February 04, 2014, 11:51:22 AM

Quote from: Delmonico on February 04, 2014, 07:37:21 AM
Well that seems rather dumb to me as well as a waste of money.

Ten cents a pop!

I cast for the cost of my time and some electricity.

rickk · February 04, 2014, 11:56:06 AM

The magical stuff is made by J&M Specialty Products. No where could I find what the stuff actually is. It isn't "powder coat", at least not the powder coat in the most common sense of the word (epoxy) as that would be a horrible bullet lube.

It sure does look like what my bullets look like when I tumble lube them with Lee lube.

Delmonico, sometimes I also run them thru motor mica as well to make them less sticky.

Rick

Mustang Gregg · February 06, 2014, 06:37:42 AM

It is a poly-something. I'll edit this post when I find out what. Poly-expensive for now.
It replaces the cast bullet lube and stays on the bullet when sized.
We found that it is SASS legal.

I don't reckon that we'll see it around these parts for awhile.

Mustang

Edit: Sorry, I didn't find out what "poly" it is. I have a truck buried in a snowdrift. I'll look later.

Delmonico · February 06, 2014, 10:07:59 AM

Quote from: Mustang Gregg on February 06, 2014, 06:37:42 AM

Edit: Sorry, I didn't find out what "poly" it is. I have a truck buried in a snowdrift. I'll look later.

Well it's most likely under one of them drifts.

Sir Charles deMouton-Black · February 06, 2014, 11:17:58 AM

I once knew a guy who found that his MG had been re-parked on top of a pile of snow by the base engineers snow clearance team.

Mustang Gregg · February 06, 2014, 09:03:56 PM

We had a guy at work park his Dodge Neon POS at the end of the maintenance ramp (against orders) for about 6 months.
Well the snow removal guys started dumping snow on top of it. The mound became about 15+ feet tall and turned to an ice cube.
In the spring, he finally go around to getting it towed off.

Mustang

Gripmaker · February 24, 2014, 10:16:43 PM

This coating could be some sort of molybdenum disulfide dirivitive. I have some .430 bullets on hand coated with moly and that stuff makes a great alternative lube. I did some work for my brother-in-law who owns a powder-coating business in Iowa and have handled the stuff...it would make a horrible if not impossible bullet lube. Gotta be something else.