i'm yet another casting newby...( i tookt pitchures)

[mozeppa]

thought i'd give it a try today.
read some instructions about my pid.

fired up my pot ...via the pid (wonderful tool!)
fired up my hot plate.
put in 4 plugs of wheel weights.
put my 9mm 125 gn. & 44 mag. 200 gn. molds on the hot plate.

and waited!
when the pid said "start now!" i did!...(well ...actually it said nothing but it "read" 720 degrees fah....good nuf fer me! )

had wrinkly boolits from the get go...figgered the mold wern't hot nuf ...and it wasn't.

added 3 feet of solder to 10 pounds wheel weights.

after a while i got the purdiest 9mm boolits ...but not the 44 mag..........mold still wasn't hot nuf.
then all at once the 44 mags got purdy too!

made 434 9mm and 105 44 mags all looking like these.
with bhn at 12 ish.

they have little mold lines and some sprue leftovers....how do i get rid of these prior to powder coating?
should i tumble them in sand blast silica to remove the burrs?

these also have very filled out square bases....how do i remove the burrs here?

do the make a boolit base beveling tool?

or do i need to buy molds with beveled bases?

heres my pix of of my handi-work.

[RED333]

No worries about the mold lines, resizing will fix that, the noise wont hurt.
Flash on the base, well might have the spure plate to tight.
I tried tumbling some boolits once, did not work well, I remelted them.
Seems the media got stuck in the lead, did not want to run them in my barrel.
You do not need a bevel base, there are bevel base molds, if you are
worring about getting them into the case just bell the mouth.

[runfiverun]

rcbs's champhering tool for their case master makes a good champhering tool for boolits.
NOE also makes one, but i''m not sure how big a boolit it works on.
I dunno why you want rounded bases [shrug]
the sprue bumps can be removed by opening the mold sooner it will cut that bump off otherwise the sizer usually removes it.

[44man]

Thumb nail for base flash. Try adjusting the plate.

[Yodogsandman]

Unless you shoot at 100 yards and over, those bases will make no difference. Choot em up!