Problem separting small bullets from ceramic media

[Clark]

My Lyman moly kit works great for bigger bullets.
http://www.grafs.com/grafs/search/product/150578

But .224" bullets fall through the .280 ~ .320" slots in the separator.

The ceramic media is .180" in diameter.

Does anyone have a source for a mail order separator the will work better?

TIA

 

[rcmodel]

Go to Wally-world and buy a hand strainer in the housewares dept.
One of the wire mesh ones should work if you find the right one.

I made my separator out of a wood frame covered with hardware cloth hail-screen. It would work too.


rcmodel

 

[mc223]

I use a Wally World flour seive. The kind with the crank handle. Works great.

 

[bsd650]

Check Out Midway if your looking for mail order company

Just purchased one from Midway USA and it has worked great. They have all different types and sizes.

www.midwayusa.com

 

[mc223]

I just reread you original post and now have become curious. What is the purpose of the ceramic media and what shape is it? Do you just put moly in the tumbler bowl with bullets and the media and let-er-rip?
I ask because I have been coating bullets for years and use a much different method.

 

[Clark]

The ceramic media is white cylinders.
After one use, they are black cylinders.

http://www.lockstock.com/prodinfo.asp?number=L7631381

 

[mc223]

I use regular "BBs", and separate with a magnet.
With the abrasive quality of even the finest ceramics, it seems that applying moly then rubbing it off in the same operation is a futile endeaver. Maybe it doesn't work that way at all.

 

[Clark]

mc223,
I have another problem, my bowl and media are contaminated from lead tipped bullets. I ordered another bowl and media, and ordered some steel media too.

Are your BBs from Lyman or your BB gun?

 

[45ACPUSER]

Hey,
Go to straight impact moly coating. Go to your local pharmacy and ask for for some 60dram bottles. Then put the bullets in the bottles seal the bottles with duct tape and run for two hrs. This works well with 22-30 cal bullets....I throw in small dillon vibratory cleaner and run with old media...Take bullets out throw in original box and just use exam gloves for seating the bullets.

For larger calibers I have a Thumblers Model B, and 1# can from Hodgdon fits in there and once the container is season it takes very little Moly to to coat the bullets. No need for seperate bowls, and it is way cleaner......

 

[Clark]

45ACPUSER wrote:

Hey,
Go to straight impact moly coating. Go to your local pharmacy and ask for for some 60dram bottles. Then put the bullets in the bottles seal the bottles with duct tape and run for two hrs. This works well with 22-30 cal bullets....I throw in small dillon vibratory cleaner and run with old media...Take bullets out throw in original box and just use exam gloves for seating the bullets.

For larger calibers I have a Thumblers Model B, and 1# can from Hodgdon fits in there and once the container is season it takes very little Moly to to coat the bullets. No need for seperate bowls, and it is way cleaner......

Ok, I found a 3.5" long 1" dia thick walled, open mouth bottle used for slide guitar in the 60's.

I put 13 bullets in there; 140 gr .270 accubonds.
I taped it up with duck tape, and threw it in the little Lyman 600 tumbler.
Three hours later, 12 of them were perfectly coated.
Kind of a light gray powder coat, not the black shiny finish the same moly powder does with ceramic media.

Where did you learn THAT trick?

 

[mc223]

clark, i used to use a similar method using clean small plastic wide mouth peanut butter jars. you can get a lot more bullets in.
My "BBs" are Dasie(sp).

I still think the Thumlers Tumblers are the very best way to moly coat.

 

[45ACPUSER]

The pill bottle method is old! The bullets look like Hornady moly coated bullets, because the moly powder is still on them...

If you want (wear cheap face mask) pour the bullets into a big bath towel and roll the bullets around and you will have darker looking bullet! Do this outside.........this is all I do but some times just dump the bullets into the box the came from...

If you want to wax those cleaned up bullets, then get another bath towel
and get it wet with some carnuba car wax then run the bullets through that towel and drop onto and another clean towel and polish them...

PB jars too big for vibratory cleaners! Gotta use a rotary.....

 

[mc223]

PB jars too big for vibratory cleaners!

Work just fine in my Dillon. Oops, forgot. Everybody doesn't have a Dillon.

 

[Clark]

OK, I tried the pill bottle, and it worked great until the new equipment arrived.
Thank you 45acpuser.

I just tried the BBs and they coated the (250) 6mm 65 gr Vmax bullets in 5 minutes.
Thank you mc223.

I have not separated them yet, but I have a large magnet from a jet engine starter generator that is groping for a use.

 

[Clark]

I put BBs in the vibrator instead of ceramic media.
I put a very powerful cylindrical magnet in a plastic jug.
I wrapped rope and tape around the side of jug, so BBs only stick to the bottom.
I tied a rope to the magnet.

When I pour the BBs and coated bullets on a cardboard tray, I can pass the jug over the mix and pick up the BBs.

I then put the jug over another tray and pull on the rope to the magnet.
The BBs fall in the second tray, as they can't follow the magnet past the tape and rope on the side.

I can separate BBs from small bullets in a minute.


End of the problem, thank you MC223.

 

[mc223]

Yer welcome. Glad it works for ya.

 

[Fly320s]

Clark, very ingenious.

A little help, please.

What is the reason to moly coat FMJ rifle bullets?

 

[Clark]

I shoot rodents.
If I drive 2,000 miles round trip, the hunting is bad at 10 shots per hour.

The hunting is good at 100 shots per hour.
Shooting a .223 at 100 shots per hour, all day long, with just a break for lunch, without bore cleaning or waiting for the barrel to cool down, is what I would like to do.

I have been doing that with moly coated bullets that are at 3500 fps or less.