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<blockquote data-quote="Pdvdh" data-source="post: 1125875" data-attributes="member: 4191"><p>If you use lead pellets, it would be a good idea to wash your hands carefully after handling your bullets. Lead is toxic and spreading lead laden dust around where children could contact it wouldn't be a healthy practice.</p><p></p><p>Anyone vibratory or rotary tumbling with lead pellets? If so, do they turn the interior of your plastic container the color of lead??? I vibratory tumbled some .35 caliber Hornady Interlock bullets for a guy and these bullets had exposed lead tips. Like pointed soft points. Vibratory tumbling these bullets with HBN powder turned the inside of my white plastic container a nasty dark, lead color. </p><p></p><p>I toweled off the bullets with a white towel and cleaned up the interior of my plastic container. I then placed these bullets back into my white container again with some more HBN powder, vibratory tumbled them a second time, and the same thing happened again. I think the exposed lead tips on the Hornady bullets is the source of the dark dust/staining. So if that's the case, does vibratory or rotary tumbling with lead pellets turn the HBN powder the color of lead? Maybe shotgun pellets are much harder than the lead in these Hornady bullets, so perhaps chilled lead shotshell pellets don't shed lead dust to the HBN powder... </p><p></p><p>I've vibratory tumbled a lot of other bullets, and some with exposed lead tips, but this is the first time my white plastic container looked like lead dust had been puked into it. When I dumped the coated bullets into a white towel, the towel was discolored also, so the lead stained the HBN powder, which stains everything it touches. Quite the ugly looking mess.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pdvdh, post: 1125875, member: 4191"] If you use lead pellets, it would be a good idea to wash your hands carefully after handling your bullets. Lead is toxic and spreading lead laden dust around where children could contact it wouldn't be a healthy practice. Anyone vibratory or rotary tumbling with lead pellets? If so, do they turn the interior of your plastic container the color of lead??? I vibratory tumbled some .35 caliber Hornady Interlock bullets for a guy and these bullets had exposed lead tips. Like pointed soft points. Vibratory tumbling these bullets with HBN powder turned the inside of my white plastic container a nasty dark, lead color. I toweled off the bullets with a white towel and cleaned up the interior of my plastic container. I then placed these bullets back into my white container again with some more HBN powder, vibratory tumbled them a second time, and the same thing happened again. I think the exposed lead tips on the Hornady bullets is the source of the dark dust/staining. So if that's the case, does vibratory or rotary tumbling with lead pellets turn the HBN powder the color of lead? Maybe shotgun pellets are much harder than the lead in these Hornady bullets, so perhaps chilled lead shotshell pellets don't shed lead dust to the HBN powder... I've vibratory tumbled a lot of other bullets, and some with exposed lead tips, but this is the first time my white plastic container looked like lead dust had been puked into it. When I dumped the coated bullets into a white towel, the towel was discolored also, so the lead stained the HBN powder, which stains everything it touches. Quite the ugly looking mess. [/QUOTE]
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