Quote from: DonC on February 26, 2023, 01:56:11 PMWhat does BAKED Pledge mean?Just what it says, Don C:You put about 150 pellets in a metallic "basket" one of those that are used to hold clips in desks. Then you incline the basket and take three short squirts of Pledge onto the "empty" side of the basket.Now you swish around the pellets trying to NOT get any liquid into the skirts.Once they are all well covered in "goo", you put the metallic basket into a toaster oven (NOT the kitchen, one. There are $5 units at most "dollar stores").You bake them for 2-3 minutes (2 minutes for 150 pellets from cold oven, 3 minutes for 3 baskets or 500 pellets).You take out the baskets with pliers, swish them around one more time and let them cool down.You now have Baked Pledge lubed pellets.It takes less time to read this instructions than doing it once you have all the elements and have some practice.It's real easy and I have found that it is even more productive than T-9 for lead pellets in the 740-800 fps region.;-)Keep well and shoot straight!HM
What does BAKED Pledge mean?
What temperature setting? If you're only doing two minutes from cold oven, it sounds like you could just about do this with SWMBO's blow dryer. Just don't tell her I said so...
Do you have a crony to validate your hypothesis?-Y
Yes, but if a dry fire and air moving past the pellet skirt before engaging in pellet skirt, velocities should be less. Perhaps MUCH less if you are getting piston slam.Can you flair the skirt to fit the breach lede better? In one of HM's early blog posts he talks about which pellets seal with their heads and which seal with their skirt. No sexist comments please. -Y
Very interesting! If the lubed pellets are temperature sensitive, they are a no-go to me, given that I shoot my guns in widely varying temps.I don't have access to either Pledge or T9, so can't check for myself.
I am wondering about the pledge and temperature. I tried to shoot on Sunday, but it ended up being too windy, but I did get some chrony numbers. Previously with what Hector termed "applied pledge" I was getting around 835-845. Tried pledged pellets that had been baked and was starting at around 805, with velocity climbing each shot, until it got into the 830 fps range. Then took a break, fired another string and it started again at 805 and climbed. There are 2 variables here, one is that the pledge on the pellets from Sunday were baked Pledge, the other was that the temperature was 36 degrees, and the higher numbers were taken on a day when it was 48 and the other day it was 50. So either baking the pellets somehow made them slower or the temperature was affecting it, which I think is likely since as the gun warmed up, velocity increased, and after I took a break and gun cooled down, velocity dropped again. Velocities were also more stable when temps were near 50 degrees. So I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed similar situation.
I switched over to Krytox 206 a while ago, seems to be longer lasting than moly grease. If the gun needs to be warmed up before its consistent, that won't work out too well. This things actual purpose is to keep the red squirrels from eating my garage, so I need to be able to grab it out of the closet and place an accurate shot. It was not meant to be a "recreational " gun at all, but it was just so pleasant to shoot, and experiment with that I have ended up shooting it for fun. My question ended up leading to more questions. As with a lot of shooting related things I will have to find out what it does in my gun, in my situation, with my weather. We'll see if they work out, the lubed pellets are an experiment to me at this point.