cally abraded and polished away cor- rosion and it wicked surface oils away from bullets. This process did not work well on
Barnes bullets and it did not work at all on Speer bullets. Those brands seem to have some sort of wax coating that is just too hard and too tenacious to be removed in this manner. At best, this process was slow and
awkward. It required a separate tumbler with clean medium. I had to change the medium after each few batches. It was impossible to tell when the bullets were actually clean enough for proper plating and it was impossible to know when the corncob needed to be replaced. This trial and error approach all too often resulted in error! I rapidly tired of plating the same batch of bullets twice. Later, I tried cleaning bullets with
carburetor cleaner before tumbling in corncob medium. This seemed to help, especially with Speer and Barnes bullets. Nevertheless, bullets sometimes failed to properly plate and this additional step also complicated the process. I later found that adding rubbing alcohol to the cleaning medium seemed to help but
the bullet-cleaning process had become entirely too complicated — all I wanted to do was moly-plate bullets! Then I read a piece in Precision
Shooting by a contributor who had discovered that simply soaking bullets for five to ten minutes in undiluted concentrated Dawn dishwashing liquid, followed by thorough rinsing in clean hot water, solved the problem of getting bullets clean – I will forever be grateful to that author. I already had learned the hard way
to dispense with the hardened steel shot that had been part of Johnston’s process. Inevitably, no matter what I did to try to prevent this, the shot periodically rusted and fouled the process. It turns out that the shot simply is unnecessary. The detergent emulsifi ed any hy-
drocarbons, allowing the rinse water to carry those away. The tiny amount of chlorine in the product micro-etched the surface of each bullet, which removed corrosion (copper and zinc oxides) and otherwise primed the surface for supe- rior moly plating. This bullet cleaning method obviously is better; it provides superior results with much less invest-
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maximum load development for the K- Hornet that day, the delay associated with plating so many separate batches was untenable. So, as an expedient, I selected visually distinct bullets and plated batches containing 200 each of three or four types per batch (depending upon cumulative batch weight). This ap- proach allowed me to fi nish in one very long day what otherwise would have taken about four days to fi nish. After plating each batch and after
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