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Post by bigboredad on Jun 11, 2019 10:32:01 GMT -5
DO NOT! O REPEAT DO NOT!!!!! Use harbor freight black they use aluminum oxide to give it the flat black. It will eat up your barrel. How do I know you ask! I used to pounds in my favorite .45 ap and now have a .45 ap shotgun it was a Ruger barrel. A really good friend ate up a Smith and Wesson 929 and rock island .40 barrel. So stay away from harbor freight black unless you have a rough barrel you need smoothed out. The black also changed my Lee sixer from .452 to .453+. It's bad juju.
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Post by 45MAN on Jun 11, 2019 11:28:29 GMT -5
DO NOT! O REPEAT DO NOT!!!!! Use harbor freight black they use aluminum oxide to give it the flat black. It will eat up your barrel. How do I know you ask! I used to pounds in my favorite .45 ap and now have a .45 ap shotgun it was a Ruger barrel. A really good friend ate up a Smith and Wesson 929 and rock island .40 barrel. So stay away from harbor freight black unless you have a rough barrel you need smoothed out. The black also changed my Lee sixer from .452 to .453+. It's bad juju. NOW THIS IS REALLY GOOD INFO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PROBABLY HAS SOME GUYS THAT HAVE USED HF BLACK GOING "OH S...!, WHAT HAVE I DONE?"
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Post by Lee Martin on Jun 11, 2019 21:34:15 GMT -5
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Post by deaconkc on Jun 11, 2019 23:20:32 GMT -5
Thank you! Went to HF yesterday and bought some Black. It is unopened so I guess I will try to exchange it for some white. I hope that is okay.
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COR
.375 Atomic
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Post by COR on Jun 12, 2019 5:41:52 GMT -5
In reality the white is the dominant color with the goal to achieve a “grey”.... its a teaspoon at best that is needed. Interesting regarding the barrel honing, Fermin’s been saying to do that anyway.
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lws
.30 Stingray
Spokane Valley, Washington
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Post by lws on Jun 12, 2019 7:29:16 GMT -5
DO NOT! O REPEAT DO NOT!!!!! Use harbor freight black they use aluminum oxide to give it the flat black. It will eat up your barrel. How do I know you ask! I used to pounds in my favorite .45 ap and now have a .45 ap shotgun it was a Ruger barrel. A really good friend ate up a Smith and Wesson 929 and rock island .40 barrel. So stay away from harbor freight black unless you have a rough barrel you need smoothed out. The black also changed my Lee sixer from .452 to .453+. It's bad juju. Well I have not shot any black coated bullets. So guess I will change where I buy my powder.
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Post by Rimfire69 on Jun 12, 2019 7:29:37 GMT -5
Exactly what I was thinking COR, this might be a clean way to fire lap.
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Post by bigboredad on Jun 12, 2019 10:35:44 GMT -5
DO NOT! O REPEAT DO NOT!!!!! Use harbor freight black they use aluminum oxide to give it the flat black. It will eat up your barrel. How do I know you ask! I used to pounds in my favorite .45 ap and now have a .45 ap shotgun it was a Ruger barrel. A really good friend ate up a Smith and Wesson 929 and rock island .40 barrel. So stay away from harbor freight black unless you have a rough barrel you need smoothed out. The black also changed my Lee sixer from .452 to .453+. It's bad juju. Well I have not shot any black coated bullets. So guess I will change where I buy my powder. Just keep an eye on what you are doing so it doesn't go to far. To be honest I have no idea how long it took to eat up the barrel. I could see the lands but never noticed how short they were getting even though my groups sucked. I just kept thinking it can't be the gun it's got to be me. Until I dropped a .451 bullet down the barrel and it fell completely thru
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Post by magnumwheelman on Jun 12, 2019 10:44:09 GMT -5
I also use Eastwoods powders & oven, & red seemed to work pretty good for a newbie to coating... not sure if its equal to HF or not though
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COR
.375 Atomic
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Post by COR on Jun 12, 2019 10:58:02 GMT -5
Well I have not shot any black coated bullets. So guess I will change where I buy my powder. Just keep an eye on what you are doing so it doesn't go to far. To be honest I have no idea how long it took to eat up the barrel. I could see the lands but never noticed how short they were getting even though my groups sucked. I just kept thinking it can't be the gun it's got to be me. Until I dropped a .451 bullet down the barrel and it fell completely thru Better get that AOW stamp
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Post by squigz on Jun 14, 2019 13:09:29 GMT -5
I stopped in my local store today and they didn't have any red. Just white, black and yellow.
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lws
.30 Stingray
Spokane Valley, Washington
Posts: 229
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Post by lws on Jun 14, 2019 15:56:32 GMT -5
Yellow & White both work.
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Post by dougader on Aug 30, 2020 18:47:39 GMT -5
Yellow & White both work. Harbor Freight opened here a couple years ago, but I didn't go in to the store until today. I recalled this thread and looked... only black and white powder @ $5.99/lb. Does the white work well enough? I was going to order some of the squirrel grey from Eastwood as it was on sale, but the shipping was as much as the powder. $23.29 for a pound of powder seemed awful steep.
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Ramar
.30 Stingray
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Post by Ramar on Aug 31, 2020 7:01:50 GMT -5
Amazon has Eastwood powders. Expensive compared to Harbor Freight, but many colors and free shipping.
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Post by x101airborne on Sept 7, 2020 15:35:04 GMT -5
Powder By The Pound is another site to look at. I am using Signal Orange right now for experimental loads to mark them as such. I will look in my stash to see if I have any HF Red. I was buying powders quite often years ago.
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