Bullet Corp (BCB) Coating Process (NOT OFFICIAL)

Alright folks, this is basically part one. This is the mix and all the solvents for Bullet Corp. Here is the powder and then all the solvents. I've added a couple or at least one here that they don't use. I'm just testing, you know, it actually works pretty well, which you'll see here in the other parts, but they have three possible, they have mibk, which is once all that, it's not here because this company is out of South Africa and I know you can . Get mibk here in the US, but I only have a minimal fine and we like big box stores.

Lowe's Menards Home Depot here in the United States and I just haven't been able to find it there, so you can find me. You can see Sunnyside. Mek, you can find it at Menards, one of their solutions uses 100 percent that or the other uses acetone with its denatured alcohol or that is denatured alpha alcohol at 95 90 96 what they say in their instructions, so I found two possible solutions, one of them. sunny side, I would have tried it and stayed away from it. I just put it here for reference but the reason is because it has 50 ethyl alcohol and 50 methyl alcohol and it worked fine but during the crush test after it hardened.

It crumbled a little. I haven't fired the

bullet

s yet, so I don't know exactly how they work, but it just crumbled a little. The transfer test and acetone worked fine, so no problem. Then I bought this on Amazon. This thing is really pure. Ethyl alcohol 95 denatured with other things, but contains absolutely no water. That's one of the things this

coating

is. You don't want moisture because that can cause flaking. This is according to the customer service people that the bcb will cause peeling so you should stay away from that and then the last thing to know if you are going to use the mek you want 100 all I can say is this works, It works fine, it's 100 mek.

I don't use the substitutes you can find at other big box stores. um just because I may not have 100 mk, well I don't because it's a substitute and I'll just stay. with the real stuff, but it really smells bad and I don't know, I won't say it's toxic, but it just smells bad, so I've been doing more on the acetone side with the denatured alcohol and I've had a lot of good results, have you seen the pictures, shiny

bullet

s, I like shiny bullets, but that doesn't really matter since the bullets go down in range, you just want results without smoke and a clean barrel, so I've been doing a lot of testing on that and I haven't tried this ethyl alcohol.

I have a blend that I'm going to try, but what I'm really trying is trying to make it easier for people here in the United States. Is this alcohol iso? It's 99.9 percent very easy to find. You can find it on Amazon. You can find it in your store anywhere and it has no problem mixing it. I have had good results so far. I just haven't shot it. However, the next thing I do is shoot it and see, but a 50 50 acetone mix or even turning up the ISO will give you nice bright bullets, but one thing I noticed, which you see in another video, is that it takes a long time to shake it compared to if you increase the alcohol concentration, but it gets nice bullets, I'll tell you, so we'll do a quick um um on how to mix your program on how to mix this. stuff, it's really easy, I just found these on Amazon, they just mix together, they're real, you know, disposable, so, real quick on this, okay, and I found these glass jars, there's all kinds of stuff, there's suggestions in the instructions, but I like these.

To be able to work with glass jars, they are easy, seal and don't spill at all, so I use them again. I like the three coat instructions they have. I use 15 grams per milliliter and three coats. This is how Can you use 18 grams per milliliter of

coating

and do two coats? That works well too and you can look at their instructions online, so basically I put the 15 grams here, close enough, it doesn't have to be exactly. perfect put this in the glass jar and then what I do depends on what solution if I want I can use if I want to use the mek I just put it up to 100 milliliters um mk or if I'm going to do the DNA you know what the solution is yeah it was acetone 50 50 or acetone and isopropyl or ethyl alcohol or whatever, but in this case I'm going to go ahead and try it.

I'm just trying different solutions, so I'm trying to improve. the amount of isopropyl alcohol and less acetone and I'm actually going to go get my other bottle to make it easier to pour instead of these ones because they're a pain so I'm going to try the blue 70 milliliter one so one mix 70 30 70 milliliters of iso, this is again, make sure it's pure 99.9, so it's 70 milliliters of iso and then I take it to 100 milliliters, this is acetone, so it's 100 milliliters of 15 per 100, pour it in and make sure it's tight and the instructions say to shake it well and make sure it sits for at least an hour so it dissolves before you use it and that's it thanks okay hello everyone this is Bullet Corp.

I guess the video series would be, of course. additional instructions step one which is washing the bullets you want to have this with any coating you want to have a nice clean bullet these are the 130 grain ones I think these are the noe bullets they are not fresh out they have been through a couple of days since I dropped them. but of course you want to have them as clean as possible so the instructions say to wash them in acetone. I did this with a high tech coating, not so much with the powder coating when I did it, but I got a bucket. um these little buckets are pretty nice, they have a relief valve for a cheeky tone because it builds up pressure in here, so um, I just go over a couple things with acetone, something to dry it out.

I've done it before with microfiber towels. I built a little mesh to throw the bullets in and let it dry there because it dries quickly with the acetone and then something to throw the bullets in and reuse the acetone because you can reuse it over and over instead of making it new. acetone, I figured it out, so I got about five pounds of bullets here, um, this is what I use, this is normal, so about 350, sorry, 250 I think in 130 grains, um bullets, so just follow the

process

here, I throw them in and you shake. I take a couple of minutes to cover the pretty covered bullets and you can already see it's building pressure, but I fan it out a little bit and I slowly turn it around here for a few minutes and I close it and I know I don't want to see this so We'll be back in a few minutes after it's done.

Okay guys, it's done, like I said, be careful with the acetone and the pressure builds up, so you may burp from time to time, but. The bullets are pretty clean. I thought this is the easiest way with a little strainer to get the bales out. I did it with my hands to get the bullets out before they got too messy and I threw them in here, but something to grab it on the opposite side, nice clean bullets and throw them in and then like I said, I just recycle this until it gets too dirty and I spread them out until they are dry and once they are dry they are ready to be coated. but nice pretty clean bullets okay guys we've got the wash bullets all ready to go so this is the coding part of the swirl or mixing part of the

process

part three of the video series and I guess step two, call it one.

From things, I always protect my hands because this could get dirty. This bucket I have works very well. I bought it at Lowe's. It costs about three dollars for five quart buckets, so it works great. I have the mix here. This is one I'm trying. Today it's 15 grams per 100, a little higher in alcohol content than acetone, just something different. My baking sheet is ready to go here and throw the bullets. You see the swirl method here. I have my measurement for the 10. milliliters, which is about two-thirds of a teaspoon, you'll see one of the things I'll talk about because there might be a little bit of noise here first is the swirl.

The nice thing about this compared to the high tech I've noticed is that you will know exactly when this flashes and is ready to go. You'll see that as I spin it really hard, the bullets will be on the side of the bucket and then you'll also see them start to get closer. in the middle is when they're ready and that's when I discard them and they're ready to go so we'll go ahead and do that and I'll show you the process so one thing is making sure the mix. it's really mixed really well, put in 10 milliliters for the 5. so spread it out nice, spread it out there now you can see how all the bullets are coated nice and shiny and wet, that's how they're supposed to look. instead of any kind of matte I guess or something, it's not good you see, it's actually a bit tiring, it took a long time, the first coat seems to do that and I think it's a lot due to the iso or the alcohol and the acetone mixture, the mek doesn't flash much faster, but I thought you got a little bit of a workout there, but you could definitely tell that when the bullets hit the middle, it flashed, it was ready to go and now that's it.

What you have to do is let them dry for about one to five minutes and we'll come back with a quick video showing that they're full and dry, so basically dry to the touch that they're actually starting to dry quite a bit already. a lot now, but we'll come back and talk about drying and baking here in the next part. Well, welcome back, friends where we are. I understand that this is step four of the process for the final bcb process, which is baking this. In the first layer, we just did the swirl, which, you know, took a long time because that was the 70 percent alcohol, like I said before in the first part, it really depends on, you have so many options with this in the different types. of solvents.

What do you use from the mek acetone alcohol ethyl alcohol and if you use the mek it actually blinks a lot faster, but I think it took me almost two minutes to turn and my arms are getting tired, but it's a good exercise, but I'll tell you. although when you use the alcohol it really gives it a nice shine and they actually dried well to the touch which you saw in the video, they were sticky to the touch but they are completely dry after five minutes, no problems so I'm ready to bake, so this is my setup for that.

I have my small saucepans. I put together five full pounds of 130-grain bullets with no problems. This is the little black and decker oven that I put a pig handler in. I bake. at 195 the instructions say between 180 and 190 you want to bake mma bake for 10 minutes with the ally between 180 and 190 degrees once the alloy is up to temperature so 10 minutes once it's up to temperature so the oven reaches temperature. and then I put the bullets in the bullets. Now you only have to do this process once to try to figure out exactly how long because you can't just put the bullets in and keep going for 10 minutes because the alloy has to harden.

I went up to temperature first so I asked customer service how to know exactly how long and this is what they told me in the process so what you will need and again you only have to do this once and find out. the exact time to bake I have some tongs, some acetone to do a transfer test and then some to cool, so basically after about 12 minutes here, I quickly go in with the tongs, take a bale, cool it, dry very quick do an acetone test and the next minute I'll go ahead and do the same thing and once I get zero transfer that's how long it bakes here and I found baking in this 15 minutes is perfect once I set it to 15 minutes with no transfer, the crush test is perfect and they are ready to go, they talk about the instructions about overbaking, that's true, but from what I understand, you can't overbake and ruin the coating, it's just they will darken like high tech but one thing I found when you take them out sometimes like in bronze they look brown and I thought oh my gosh disappointed I overbaked them and burned them but they're not actually brown when you take them out and they cool down and actually when they harden they change color again and they look really beautiful after a couple of hours so they actually transform and change color so anyway.

I'm going to go and throw them in and we'll come back in about 12 minutes and I'll show you what I do to drop them in the water, the acetone test and we'll do it and we'll figure out the exact timing and Again, you only have to do this once, it's okay, we're at 12 minutes, so let's go ahead and take out a bullet. Okay, cool it real quick, we'll dry it. Pour a little acetone. Now this is just a transfer test. Same as high tech, it cools down very quickly and I put it like that because in case there's something on your hands you don't want to see any transfer so you can see it's at 12 minutes getting some transfer this is very light , so it's definitely not ready at 12 minutes, so it's not ready, so I'm going to throw that in again and then wait another minute or two.

Do this at 14 minutes, okay, 14 minutes, I'll go ahead and have another one a little bit.warm see if there's any transfer this time and I guess there still will be some because we're doing it at 15 minutes definitely not as much this time so we're almost done we're at 16 minutes now because I think it's the alcohol but the new mix completely 15 minutes didn't work. I was still getting some transfer so we'll see what happens. I'm talking to the BCB customer service people again, they said a lot of pigment in these things can still have very light transfer as long as nothing comes out of the bullets , so the transfer is very light.

I already call it done, we are going to make a great success. Try it but 16 minutes will work for me nothing comes out of the bullet so I'll go ahead and take them out like I said they almost look brown but when they cool after a couple of hours they actually turn pretty, brown in color. So that's layer one. Let's back up a little bit and I'll show you the mixture that we're going to put in layer two and since it's 15 grams per 100 milliliters instead of 18 or 20, I usually put a third layer in there as well. so we'll be back in a few minutes, okay guys, we're back for coat number two, um, this is all dry, you saw the transfer test, just a little bit of transfer, I don't like the transfer at all, although I said that, the BCB people said you can get a little bit of transfer because there's a lot of pigment in these things, so I'll probably bake these a little longer next time and get zero transfer on the second coat, but I'll see what happens, so coat number two is exactly the same process as the first.

One thing I forgot to mention in the first code is that you saw that the bucket was clean. I asked the question. These guys probably got tired of me because I've asked them so many questions. Do you know you saw the clean bucket here? When do you need to clean your bucket? I also had the same question with high tech and was told you basically don't do it. Say that. They've made thousands and thousands and thousands of bales before having to clean it, so I only had a clean bucket to start with, but for the batches I've made, I still use the same bucket without cleaning it, so that answers that question.

If anyone mentions it so again just mix this up make sure it's nice and mixed and I'm going to do the same thing with five pounds of bullets here 130 grain and I did if I said before these are the mp bullets 130 grains. so 10 milliliters garnet and this is going to take a while because this is 70 alcohol so I can see the bullets there, they fall towards the middle and look how nice and shiny they don't stick, that's what you want them wet, you want them shiny, that is a perfect layer. The second coat is applied, so we'll let them dry.

You see how long, I don't think it probably took that long on that second layer for the swirl, maybe it did, but again, that's what the alcohol and acetone mixture, if you use the mek, it definitely doesn't take that long to turn and it flashes a lot faster, but again, you can differentiate yourself from, I don't know, high tech, you can tell right away. when it's ready to be poured, you saw the bullets came out of the side, they went to the middle, they're ready, they're ready to be poured, so we're going to let them dry and we're going to bake them well.

Welcome back guys, this is the final video on the Bullet Corp coding process. We're pretty good, we're done. This is the final result of the third coat, nice and shiny. This is the mixture of acetone and alcohol, 15 milliliters, 15 grams per 100 milliliters so you can see, it came out very nice. I love the results, very pretty and the coat is very pretty so I'll go ahead and review to show you one that has the size there. I'll go ahead and size one 357, that's what I measure mine for my guns too, okay, that size comes out great, it doesn't move, no problems, now we'll do an acetone test.

It took about 15 16, actually, about 16 minutes on the final coat and you can't get any transfer. Look here, it's supposed to pass about 30 seconds very lightly through the acetone and once it cooled it didn't have any problems, so you can see there's no transfer, nothing really good comes out, it doesn't take anything away from the bullet. , so it's very good. this is the crush test now, but this is the second layer crush test. We don't really show that process on the second layer because, well, the crush test after or the third layer because you've seen it, but the crush test is really good at that, so we'll do a crush test with the third layer here and hopefully we're good, it should look good, nothing is coming off, so I like it, so on the coating this.

What I do? I think I've already talked about that, but I weigh about five pounds. For this, these are 130 grain bullets at 7,000 grains per pound, so we're talking about about 270 bullets per batch, so it's really not that bad. I batch at 270, so it goes pretty fast. I'll just go over some advantages of this, which I think at least the advantages are that there is no smoke or lighting. You saw the video I posted earlier. These were shot through my cz Shadow to release the barrel after 300+ rounds, there was absolutely no illumination. All I did was go over a patch with some number nine jumps, a quick run and then a clean dry patch, there was no brush on all of that and the barrel was spotless, there was no guide, there was nothing at all.

The other thing, I think at least it's easy to code versus process versus high tech. I personally had some problems with high technology. I know a lot of people love it. and I think it's very easy to do, but if you looked at this process, it's very simple, you don't have to worry as much about how much coating you apply, you can coat it, it's actually not that difficult, you twist it and throw it away. It dries very quickly and baking is not a problem, so the other thing I like about this, at least about the powder coating, which I also love, is that the coating is very consistent with the powder coating that I found. you get thin layers, you get thick layers and when you're trying to get a good overall consistency or overall length of the cartridge when you're seating the bullet a lot of times you get a thick area on the bullet and when you're seating the bullet it goes, you know the length of the cartridge It's either too short or too long and with this the coating is very consistent across the board, just as it is high tech, and the last thing is if you look at these, they are very shiny.

A lot less marks than when it comes to powder coating that I just saw, especially the shake and bake method with powder coating, you're going to get a lot of marks on them, at least in my experience, if you put the bullets in. powder coating which takes a long time, you don't get any marks of course, but in my opinion that does take a long time. The downsides to this are that it takes a lot longer because you are doing layering compared to powder coating than shake and bake. method you can do with a coating, just throw it in a bucket with a coating of powder, get a good static and pour it into a pan like this and bake it for 20 minutes at 400 and that's it, you have a coating and that's it. much simpler that way so yes it will take longer the other downside you have some pretty nasty chemicals you're playing with so it's a little bit better it's more expensive than powder coating so those are some of the disadvantages. but I think it's worth it with a lot of this, you get a lot of pros, I think they outweigh the cons, it codes a lot better and I really like it a lot, so definitely leave some comments below and questions, if you have them let me know, thanks.