donS
04-18-2009, 01:34 PM
I have for years used a lee 10# bottom pour pot. Well I started to pour bigger Boolits so I replaced my old pot with a lee 20#bottom pour.
Now I want to get my old pot back.
On the small lee I could see the pour spout and sort of guid the mold to it and flip the lever and I would have a Boolit.
On the new lee the pour spout is way back You have to guess and the shape is not suited to fit in the sprue plate so there is no feel to when it is located in the sprue plate.
Am i stupid? What am I doing wrong This thing is not user friendly. The suposed mold guide also seems like a poor effort for that purpose.
I also have recently read that you should not locate off of the spru plate but hold the mold some distance below and just direct the stream of lead into the mold. How many do this? how do you locate the mold?
How do the casters among you do this? I am really interisted in others method and solutions.
share with me and other casters the result of your experience.
Don S
Now I want to get my old pot back.
On the small lee I could see the pour spout and sort of guid the mold to it and flip the lever and I would have a Boolit.
On the new lee the pour spout is way back You have to guess and the shape is not suited to fit in the sprue plate so there is no feel to when it is located in the sprue plate.
Am i stupid? What am I doing wrong This thing is not user friendly. The suposed mold guide also seems like a poor effort for that purpose.
I also have recently read that you should not locate off of the spru plate but hold the mold some distance below and just direct the stream of lead into the mold. How many do this? how do you locate the mold?
How do the casters among you do this? I am really interisted in others method and solutions.
share with me and other casters the result of your experience.
Don S