Vern Humphrey
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That was discussed elsewhere. Powder Coating works at least as well as lube, and is much cheaper and easier to apply. You need a plastic bowl (butter tub or whipped topping container), a toaster over (about $20 at Wal Mart) and a pack of nitrile gloves. You can buy powder coating cheaply -- typically under $10.00 a pound, and a pound will last a long time. On a per-round basis, it's cheaper than bullet lube -- and a lot less messy.Do I have to buy a new press, like the Lyman, 400 I believe the model was? It had a lube warmer on it ??
Put the bullets in the plastic tub, add powder coating and shake-shake-shake. The powder will adhere by static electricity (you can enhance the effect by stroking the bowl with a wool glove, or adding air soft BBs). Pick the coated bullets out and put them in the pre-heated toaster oven and bake for 20 minutes at 400 degrees.
Since powder coating comes in many colors, I color-code bullets. For a batch of .45 bullets, for example, I will coat some of them green (for 14,000 PSI loads for the Colt SAA), some yellow (for 19,000 psi loads from my Colt New Service) and some red (for 32,000 psi loads for my Ruger Blackhawk.)