Ovens?

Bass Ackward

Active Member
I KNOW you guys aren’t heat treating bullets & melting plastic in the ovens that cook your food. I always water dropped. That was OK when I was really shooting, but now that things have slowed down, I find myself with several thousand bullets of air cooled hardness. So either I need to re-learn everything & buy stock in the Chore Boy company till I do. Or ..... I need to get me an oven to make them slugs .... usable again.

Would an air fryer work? The Ol’lady’s says it gets hot enough. It circulates the air, & it fits on a table top. I can’t do massive quantities at once cause the entrance is .... restricted in size compared to a real oven. I know this would work for lead. But iffin I’m gonna spend the money, might as well get one for plastic too. (Should I ever decide to make girly lookin slugs that is. :oops: )

So what are you using?
 

35 shooter

Well-Known Member
For ht cast bullets, I use a little $12.00 oven from a fred’s or dollar store.
I use an oven thermometer in it and it gets to 500*.

Yeah, I fly on the cheap when I can.
 

Rick

Moderator
Staff member
I use a convection oven I got from a restaurant supply place. It holds these three trays which each hold over 100 35 caliber bullets. Thought I had a picture of the oven also but couldn't find it.

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Ian

Notorious member
I use a Black & Decker countertop convection oven, came with a rotisserie attachment. Brand-new at wallochinamart for $40 on sale. You really need the convection feature and a cheap, analog oven thermometer at minimum. Made trays out of some sheet metal salvaged from the side of an old washing machine to sit on the wire racks. Covered the trays with Reynold's non-stick aluminum foil stretched out smooth and folded over the edges about an inch.
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
I use a cheap convection oven I got on sale at Menards. I use my PID on it.
Shelves are covered in 1/4” hardware cloth.
Convection is nice as it gives even heating. A PID is nice too
 

waco

Springfield, Oregon
I use cheap wire baskets found on Amazon to dump the Bullets into when baking. 63C65F15-DC52-4BCA-B93E-E34B58BF4C50.jpeg
 

Hawk

North Central Texas
I use a cheap small convention oven that I bought at a garage sale for $10.00.
Has two trays that I cover with aluminum non stick foil.
 

Rick H

Well-Known Member
Cheap Walmart convection oven...need a thermometer as the thermostat settings are not accurate on mine. I use the included tray and parchment paper. The non-stick aluminum foil sticks and gets torn up too fast for me.
 

358156 hp

At large, whereabouts unknown.
My convection oven came from the Goodwill for $14.00. I quickly found that it wouldn't hold consistent temps worth a lick, so I removed the thermostatic control & wired it on full-time for use with my PID. It also is used for curing Cerakote on smaller parts like AR receivers & trinket stuff. I use 1/8 in. steel plates instead of the flimsy trays it came with, and I use silicone baking mats instead of non-stick foil. I went to the steel plates when one of the original trays buckled under the weight of a full load of 280 gr. 44s. I copyrighted around 143 new swear words that day. The steel plates only cost me something like $12.00 each. Aluminum would have been three times that.
 

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
Yeah, when the 'non-stick aluminum foil' came up, my mind immediately jumped to silicone
baking sheets. When parchment came up, that sealed it for me, was going to recommend it....
but too late.

Since I do not heat treat bullet or powder coat, purely theoretical for me.

Bill
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
I use baking sheets from the dollar store, and put parchment paper on them for powder coating.
if I use the wire rack, I use a piece of hardware cloth I bent into a rack/pan shape and made bigger holes in.

I got a B&D convection oven at the discount outlet store and it's been working just fine.
I did splurge on a 7$ thermometer from the walmart, I watch it like a hawk, and moderate the temp knob as necessary, I also double check the timer with the clock on the wall behind the casting bench.
 

GRMPS

Active Member
I started with a free toaster oven, got really uneven heat, Bought a convection oven for apr $50 at Amazon and will never look back. Since then I got a large Oster 2 shelf convection oven at Goodwill for $20 and another large s shelf convection oven at the gospel mission store for $15.------OK don't ask me why cause I don't know why I need 3 countertop convection ovens:headbang:

99% of countertop ovens temperature settings ARE OFF some up to 70° I place 2 oven thermometers in the middle of bake shelf and adjust the dial until they read 400° (my $15 oven :)0
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this isn't the end of it, due to the design and location of the heat sensor, the oven internal temperature is affected by the surrounding temperature. When the surrounding temperature changes, re-check the oven setting.


One thing I found that really helps is to cover the bottom of the oven (between the heat coils) with a heat retaining media. I use ceramic BBQ briquettes, others use fire brick, lava rock --- anything to hold the heat and help the oven get back to operating temperature faster. I fell it also helps with even heating. I ran out of Briquettes will need to get another bag to finish covering the bottom.
 
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