AusVarmint

I am going to give this moly crap a whirl in the new POP-gun. Curious as to what kits or how you are going about doing it. Trying to save myself sometime decreasing the learning curve!

Is moly the best coating?

Cheers
AI

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If you want to give me a call AI I will talk you through the best process.

Ball bearings in a screw on lid type plastic container propelled by a holden wiper motor and 12v transformer

KY

Kenny wrote:Ball bearings in a screw on lid type plastic container propelled by a holden wiper motor and 12v transformer

KY

Thats what I have been hearing too.... Magna wiper motors are not to bad either! I think I will go this way. I was just goign to get a Lyman moly kit to put on my Lyman tumber...

Cheers
AI

Or save yourself the screwing about and buy bullets that are already coated. Only a couple of bucks extra per 100. Coating them yourself is a messy process I'd rather pay somebody else to deal with.

Ok here I go again.
Just for you AI !
I use WS2 powder is similar to Moly, but I got it from the chaps on the 204ruger forum.
The other guys are right, any screw on lid container will work just add some impact material (ball bearings) work fine, but I use No.4 shot taken from a shotty shell. Only use a teaspoon of Moly in the container as a little goes a long way.

I put mine in the tumbler on top of the crushed walnut and just let it jiggle around in there for a few hours. Make sure you have the jar lid on tight, don’t ask me how I know !
Don’t let them vibrate around for too long as the bullets can get stippled from the impacted media.

Once the bullets have a good coating, take them out and roll them round on a clean towel to polish them up, it takes a while to get the excess material off and you might have to transfer to another towel to get the best results.

I use a disposable rubber glove when loading the bullets to avoid getting black fingers and try to avoid touching them too much.

I often think that the moly would be stripped off the bullet in the first 2 inches of barrel, but haven’t come up with a method to prove it. So I add some moly powder to white spirit mix it up and patch it onto the barrel before shooting. Kind of coats the entire barrel, before running moly bullets up it.

Anyway it hasn’t done any harm and the cleaning after a big session is easier.

Buy the Lyman kit it works just fine. The trick to good moly is in the process you follow not how you tumble the cases around.

AI,

Now if you bought that lathe you once talked about you could do what I do...get yourself a H322 bottle...the one with the steel cap and remove the polystyrene seal underneath it...stick 500 bullets in with 1/4 teaspoon of moly and stick it in your 3 jaw chuck...set your rpm to about 125 and run for 2hrs....perfect shiny molly coated bullets.

If you didn't buy it so you could buy another rifle then you dont know what your missing....you can put some bullets and steel balls with some moly in a plastic container and put them in your vibrating tumbler and it will do a good job...you can buy a shit load of ball bearings at the bearing shop to suit bicycles....I think they are about 3/16 to a 1/4 inch.

Steve

The Magna wiper motor and a Thumbler's Tumbler have worked well for years, but recently have changed to a Lyman 1200 and moly kit.

If you must use ball bearings, try steel shot in #2 size.

Remember that the bullet maker went to a lot of trouble to make perfect bullets - he did not intend that they be bashed around for a couple of hours in quarter inch bearings.