hBN Alternate Process

[spclark]

I just stumbled upon something quite intriguing, compared to how I've been coating bullets with hBN powder for the past few years:

http://www.caswellplating.com/electroplating-anodizing/nickel-plating-kits/ptfe-boron-nitride-kits/boron-nitride-electroless-plating-kit-1-5-gal.html

This seems to be a far more effective way to achieve what we're after while also being far more complicated than doing moly-coating via the NECO process.

Not to mention the equipment needed and array of chemicals.

I'd be curious if this process might be akin to what D. Tubb may have 'discovered' due to its likely applications in the oilfield equipment industry?

 

[BoydAllen]

Do you really want to shoot nickel plated bullets down your rifle's bore?

 

[bdale]

I don't think that's the same as the cosmetic grade of HBN shooters are using

 

[spclark]

Do you really want to shoot nickel plated bullets down your rifle's bore?

No Boyd, but what I'm wondering about is whether there are more effective ways than 'impact-plating' hBN onto bullet jackets.

The process described for this kit sounds like the hBN particles get embedded in a nickel-bearing matrix on the order of 0.0002" deep.

 

[BoydAllen]

I agree with the proposition of looking for better and more efficient ways of doing anything, but having done some reading about early bullets that had cupronickel jackets, and the great trouble associated with removing the resultant fouling from rifle bores, I would never consider any thickness of nickel on a bullet.