Question about PBC.

L6steel

L6steel

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How do you guys apply it?
I used the shaker method and it didn't seem very efficient, lots of waste.
Is there a better way?
 
Michael, I use a big plastic pepper shaker, so that I can get plenty of the powder on the hot blade, fast. I hold the knife over a piece of tin foil, so that the waste can be captured and put back in the shaker.
 
Ahhhh, I never thunkt to catch the stuff that fell by the wayside Robert, thanks!!!
I think my shaker is too small as well, just an old garlic bottle. The holes are pretty good size but it still doesn't dump fast enough.
I'll have to find me one of those big shakers and maybe drill the holes out.
Do you apply the stuff in the shop or outside?
I thought it was real toxic if inhaled.
 
I use a spice jar that has about 1/4" holes and apply over a pop case bottom. One thing I found that works for me is to heat the blade to about a blue color with a propane torch rather than my high temp oven -- much easier to get a good thick coat on without over heating the thin edges.
I think the stuff is great -- sure takes the work out of post HT clean up. :thumbup:
 
I had this glass shaker you see usually filled with red pepper flakes in the italian pizza joints. I have no idea where it came from, but one day I found it while rummaging around the umpteen-million plastic tubs full of near-useless brac-a-brac occupying a large percentage of our garage. That thing worked very well, and I used an old roasting pan I found at the dump to catch the fallen wayside of PCB goodness.

One day, Captain Nemo (dog) came into the shop and as I jigged to the side to avoid his gargantuan black mass, my ample bottom had bumped the rickety Craftsman workbench (my beloved brother's going-away present) housing my Paragon furnace, Krups toaster oven, and other miscellaneous HT parahernalia, and dashe dit to the hard concrete floor - smashing it into tiny grey powdery glassy fragments.

My chagrin to the loss of said glass shaker was beyond measure. Lo, though it were glass, the holes in the silvery chromed cap were deemed to be, "just right" therefore pretty darn good for the dispensing of the aforementioned PBC powdered greyness. I was inconsolable.

Then did my weary eyes behold Linda, wife of marriage, and love of my life! She did appear to me as holding from yon grocery store kitchen section a vessel that appeared to be all shiny as if in a dream, nay, as if to be entirely stainless steel! It were as such a giant stainless steel salt shaker the likes of which my lowly country arse has not encountered on this weary globe. The holes, though a wee small, were so plentiful that the PCB were to dispense from them as such woudl be a storm of sand in the desert!

I took this vessel, and filled within its confines the sacred PCB, and catching the fallen remains in a roasting vessel, all was good and well with the world.

And we slept, for the knowing that mine steel was scale-free was comforting to my soul. :thumbup:
 
I been brushing it on but am going to try dipping it into a long pece of pipe,one end sealed, one open. full of dry PBC.
I'll let you know.
Take Care
TJ
 
I just drilled the right sized holes in the lid of the PBC container and made one big shaker...

I catch the excess in a pan.
 
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