Powder Coating Cast Bullets With Harbor Freight White

I just gotta tell you. I've been watching your videos for about a month now and you are the most informative ammo reloader/caster that I've ever seen. You have given me a ton of helpful advice and if it wasn't for you, I'd probably have messed up so many times. Thank you for your help and I'm grateful for you.

I know this is an old video but it helped me more than any other I have watched.thanks again and God bless.

Finally giving powder coating a shot. Wish me luck!

Thanks for the great video. Was a lot of info I needed. Thank you !!!

Awesome info FC45LC I just did harbor freight white and got the same marble look on my 9mm cast bullets 1 coating and it looks good and was I wondering about the coating too and your videos are vary helpful thank you

I’ve mixed colors, Red and White to make pink and although it’s not perfect my wife loves the bullets! 😎

Good video as always.

Thanks for the video. i looked it up while i was standing in the harbor freight paint isle. I think im still going to go with smoke's powder, but I learned a lot from this video.

hey thanks for doing this videos very informative and educational

I continue to learn from you, thanks. Instead of second coat of white I am try black on top of the white, and see what happens.

Thanks... useful as usual

I tried this with my tumbler unsuccessfully with throwing bullets and powder from the tumbler. Good thing I was working outside. An alternative wet method that worked well was in a cylindrical container with a handful of bullets, 1/2 teaspoon of Harbor Freight powder and 2 CCs of acetone then shake until coated. The acetone dries quickly then bake as you normally do. This did good with the black and have not tried the white yet.

I used the white coating and left them tumbling 90 minutes and got that light coating. I baked them @ 400 degrees. I loaded them into the brass and will head to range for 100 yard test. .45 LC in Rossi Rifle , 252 & 255 grain Bullets.

I mix about 1/3 black and 2/3 white. Makes a really nice looking antique looking gray colored bullet.

I watched another channel where the guy was powder coating - he laid the bullets flat in a tray to bake and then when they came out, he dropped them into a bucket of water. It worked great - none stuck together.... after they dried, he lubed them a little and ran them up through a Lee sizer die.

I coated several hundred 9mm (Lee 120 gr TC) With the Harbor Freight white and got this exact same result. Even though they look thinly coated I experienced no leading at just under 1,000 FPS. Your mileage may vary.

Thanks LC for the video. You gave it a good test. I would still buy the white because leading is what we're looking for to lower your leading and any coating at all will help with that. If one is after good looking bullets then they can use the red. The black I'm told works well, but people say that color has abrasive in it and that's bad, don't know if that's true or not ! Thanks again 😃

Hey FortuneCookie45LC, sorry for the potentionally dumb question, but I shoot a lot of 45-70 thru my Trapdoor & Rolling block. I cast my own bullets (20 to 1 Ratio, tin & lead), then I run them thru my Lubrisizer using SPG lube. Do you recommend trying to powder coat some 45-70 bullets like mine? Is it feasible? Or is it worth it to try? I was watching your video and it made me think about my Black Powder rifles. Of course you know, shooting black powder rifles causing a lot of fouling inside the barrel, so I thought "Powder Coating" might decrease some of the fouling. My other thought was, if you powder coat black powder bullets can you still lube them? Or, is there no more need to lube them? Your thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks

Steve- Does relative humidity have an impact on the dry adhesion amount?

yes!