The rules and the game changed....

[venomballistics]

I believe the parchment paper would insulate the bullets from the needed ground; powder is positive charge, bullets negative charge, powder sticks = electrostatic process. Otherwise anything that would spray powder would work.

I have used large, 8" tweezers, hemostats, and long nose pliers to remove bullets from the tub, and tried with less success nitrile gloves.

you would think so, but that is not the case.
ES deposit is capacitive.
most folks slightly familiar with electricity think in terms of resistive loads, like light bulbs, motors, heaters and the like, where theres a flow of electricity.

electrostatic, disassembled gives you elecrto, having to do with electron charge, and static, ... not in motion.
the charge just has to be there and it works.
a layer of parchment does not stop the charge.
two layers of powdercoat and parchment starts to get flaky as the capacitance drops rather low.
if you have problems, youve probably have more powdercoat layers than lead.

 

[MWC2068]

I dry tumble coat with the black bb's also, I dump the tumbled bb's and boolits in a colander to separate the powder back into a 5 gal. bucket, and then pour remaining boolits and bb's threw 3/8 expanded metal or hardware cloth. The bb's go threw the boolits stay then I pour the boolits on to some 1/4 hardware cloth trays that I made to fit my toaster oven and bake. Boolits may be laying down and standing up, but I have found it doesn't make any differance there may be a few marks on the boolits but big deal, I'm not making art, I'm making boolits to shoot and they seem to be doing fine for that purpose, that's just my take on the matter which may not suit any or all others.

 

[scott1970]

Loaded my first batch of bright red .357s.

 

[mikld]

you would think so, but that is not the case.
ES deposit is capacitive.
most folks slightly familiar with electricity think in terms of resistive loads, like light bulbs, motors, heaters and the like, where theres a flow of electricity.

electrostatic, disassembled gives you elecrto, having to do with electron charge, and static, ... not in motion.
the charge just has to be there and it works.
a layer of parchment does not stop the charge.
two layers of powdercoat and parchment starts to get flaky as the capacitance drops rather low.
if you have problems, youve probably have more powdercoat layers than lead.

Hmmm, then why is it necessary to have a ground for the parts when electrostatic coating?

 

[venomballistics]

Hmmm, then why is it necessary to have a ground for the parts when electrostatic coating?

Potential difference.

Ponder lightning for a moment.
Static charge builds until it breaks over the dielectric presented by the air.

Where air is every bit as much of an insulator as say, parchment, the lightning still knows how to get to ground, though it sees ground through a brick wall.

Essentially, the atmosphere, ground and cloud form a capacitor where the dielectric is the air. When the voltage exceeds the dielectrics ability to stop it. That charge blows through the insulator.
Meanwhile, as the charge builds to that point, the difference still causes attraction.

When powder coating, similar things are at play.
Operating voltage is in the ballpark of 10000 volts, which can overcome most dielectric bariors.

End result is, it works just as I'm telling you.
The bullets take a coat despite being on a dielectric film.
10Kv is too much for the parchment to stop.