i am from northeast ohio and have a casting company and we too are using the hi tek coating which we buy through donnie at bayou. i took a trip down to his shop last july and spent some time with him right before we purchased our casting machines. once we got the coating down and the cook times...
there is also a casting company in northeast ohio that is coating with hi-tek coating. a lot of idpa and uspa shooters are using this product because of the clean barrel, and way less smoke during rapid fire stages. LNL bullet Casting