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<blockquote data-quote="Calvin45" data-source="post: 1639890" data-attributes="member: 109862"><p>I did read up a bunch more from different threads and YouTube vids. I now have a couple hundred projectiles treated with it. I'm on an extremely limited budget so I wanted to use what I had available if possible. The consensus seemed to be that steel bbs were the ideal tumbling media. I didn't go out and buy any, I cut open a bunch of the cheaper Winchester steel 12 gauge shells I had and probably won't ever use (I've decided waterfowl hunting isn't for me) to acquire the bbs. I washed them first as bbs in shotshells are often kinda greasy. I ensured the projectiles were clean as well, shaking them around in some water with dish soap, rinsing, oven drying, sure not to touch them directly with my hands. Don't know if that matters but can't hurt. At first it was not ideal. The powder clumped/caked real thick and upon scraping it off the bullets themselves didn't seem different...no impact plating happening. I discovered that when they say use sparingly they're not kidding. I didn't think I had put that much in the container with them but it was way too much. So I wiped those initial projectiles down to remove excess coating, and tumbled again (vibratory tumbler, pill jar). Much better, still not great results though. My final solution was to heat the projectiles to 250 Fahrenheit in an oven and then get them tumbling, applied a bit of new powder to the jar. Did this for all the others too, heat them up, tumble. The dimensions of my jar were such that it it spun slowly within the tumbler in a rotary manner as well. I did research the melting point of the plastic jar of course.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calvin45, post: 1639890, member: 109862"] I did read up a bunch more from different threads and YouTube vids. I now have a couple hundred projectiles treated with it. I’m on an extremely limited budget so I wanted to use what I had available if possible. The consensus seemed to be that steel bbs were the ideal tumbling media. I didn’t go out and buy any, I cut open a bunch of the cheaper Winchester steel 12 gauge shells I had and probably won’t ever use (I’ve decided waterfowl hunting isn’t for me) to acquire the bbs. I washed them first as bbs in shotshells are often kinda greasy. I ensured the projectiles were clean as well, shaking them around in some water with dish soap, rinsing, oven drying, sure not to touch them directly with my hands. Don’t know if that matters but can’t hurt. At first it was not ideal. The powder clumped/caked real thick and upon scraping it off the bullets themselves didn’t seem different...no impact plating happening. I discovered that when they say use sparingly they’re not kidding. I didn’t think I had put that much in the container with them but it was way too much. So I wiped those initial projectiles down to remove excess coating, and tumbled again (vibratory tumbler, pill jar). Much better, still not great results though. My final solution was to heat the projectiles to 250 Fahrenheit in an oven and then get them tumbling, applied a bit of new powder to the jar. Did this for all the others too, heat them up, tumble. The dimensions of my jar were such that it it spun slowly within the tumbler in a rotary manner as well. I did research the melting point of the plastic jar of course. [/QUOTE]
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