Removing Moly from Bullets with Rice

M1A1ABRAMS said:

And why not shoot them with the Moly coating ?

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drakehammer said:

I'm allergic to it.

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Varmint Hunter said:

That sounds like an awful lot of work, but they certainly look moly-free to me.
I would think that a shorter tumble in walnut shells would work much faster and do a satisfactory job. Either way - good job.

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drakehammer said:

I am long winded far too often. It's simpler than I made it sound. It was basically a three-step process. Tumble-tumble-wash. You could be right though. I don't think that the bullets really "needed" to be tumbled a full 2.5 hours each time. That just happens to be how long I let them go before taking a look at the progress. Sure you could use shells or corn cob media, among other things. I used rice mainly because it was really cheap media destined for the trash.
I have 150 30 cal 200gr Moly coated Nosler Partitions yet to do as well. I think I will try the Bar Keeper's Friend method just for comparison. Funny thing is that I may never have to do this again after those are cleaned up.
Thank you!

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drakehammer said:

I'm allergic to it.

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drakehammer said:

I'm allergic to it.

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Varmint Hunter said:

That sounds like an awful lot of work, but they certainly look moly-free to me.
I would think that a shorter tumble in walnut shells would work much faster and do a satisfactory job. Either way - good job.

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drakehammer said:

Today I made my first attempt at removing the moly coating from two boxes (100 total) of 7mm 160gr CT Partition Gold bullets, and I think it worked out well.
What I did…
Tumbled 100 moly coated bullets & 1/2 of a 48oz bag of white, long grain rice in a small Harbor Freight vibratory tumbler for about 2.5 hours. Then I separated the bullets from the dirty rice and discarded the rice. This removed about 1/2 or maybe more of the moly from the bullets. Next, I wiped as much of the powdery residue from the tumbler bowl with paper towels and repeated the process, tumbling the bullets a second time with the remaining 1/2 bag of rice for another 2.5 hours. I separated the bullets from the dirty rice and discarded the rice once again. At this point the bullets were essentially clean, however I chose to wash the bullets two or three times by hand in hot water with plenty of Dawn. Based on the successive water color changes, I am confident the bullets are now Moly-free. I dried the bullets at 250°F for 1/2 hour and this is what they look like. Total cost was $3. Now I'm looking forward to loading them for my 7mm STW.

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Coyote Shadow Tracker said:

Why not just sell them instead of working to take the Moly off???

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