Moly coating plastic tip bullets

[clowdis]

I'm thinking about moly coating some ELDM bullets and wondered if anyone has done this before and if it ruins the plastic tips? I tried some A-max's years ago and found about 1/3 of the tips in the bowl after moly coating. With the scarcity of bullets these days I'd hate to ruin a batch.

 

[Ron Blain]

Well I can share this much with you. Been years since I was into moly coating bullets but using a vibratory tumbler I tried moly coating hundreds of Nosler 50 grain #39522 Ballistic Tip and Nosler 55 grain #39526 Ballistic Tip bullets and both did just fine. The ballistic tips suffered no damage at all. They really did not shoot any better in my 1:12 bolt gun but certainly no worse either. I would toss a few hundred in the tumbler with a teaspoon of moly and let them go a few hours, then just place them in a towel and get rid of the excess moly. Again, the tips were not damaged at all.

Ron

 

[clowdis]

Thanks Ron. I was hoping that they improved the tip design.

 

[Ron Blain]

Most welcome and the ones I did were likely 25 ~ 30 years ago.

Ron

 

[ricco1949]

I've moly'd 1000's of 40 V-Maxes, 500 at a time, in a vibratory with no damage to the tips.

 

[The boogalorian]

I have coated the eldm’s using the wet method without any issues.

 

[ronemus]

I recently coated several batches of 285 gr .338 ELD-M bullets with no issues. I use the dry vibratory method with Lee ceramic media.

 

[boltfluter]

I've moly'd 1000's of 40 V-Maxes, 500 at a time, in a vibratory with no damage to the tips.

Me too! Never a problem to date.

Paul