Bobby Ironsights
05-17-2009, 08:32 PM
Well, I bought a buckshot mold in #000, in hopes of feeding my ten gauges cheaper from an ebay seller, skiesunlimited; during the winter. So, yesterdays snowfall has already melted and it looks like the rest of the month of May will be nice and sunny and warm up here in Northern Ontario, so I finally started casting with my new mold, (and a few other molds too).
This mold casted fast, after getting up to temperature, and I was as pleased as punch with it, until about 5 or 6 casts before it broke, when it started getting more and more difficult to open. I checked if there was any little fragment of lead in the joint, but there was no visible reason why. I thought maybe I just had to break it in, and it would loosen up again after awhile. I had to give it a little jerk to get it to open, and then it just broke. There doesn’t seem to be any sort of void or casting flaw. I really don’t know what happened, but I’m really disappointed. I thought about high temperature epoxying it back into place, but the center ring is still solidly stuck into place on the pivot pin.What is shown is all I got from the mold, before failure. So very sad!
This was much faster than casting them one at a time with my lyman mold, that’s for sure. I'm gonna write skiesunlimited, and see what he says.
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h314/BobbyIronsights/bummold.jpg
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h314/BobbyIronsights/bummold2.jpg
This mold casted fast, after getting up to temperature, and I was as pleased as punch with it, until about 5 or 6 casts before it broke, when it started getting more and more difficult to open. I checked if there was any little fragment of lead in the joint, but there was no visible reason why. I thought maybe I just had to break it in, and it would loosen up again after awhile. I had to give it a little jerk to get it to open, and then it just broke. There doesn’t seem to be any sort of void or casting flaw. I really don’t know what happened, but I’m really disappointed. I thought about high temperature epoxying it back into place, but the center ring is still solidly stuck into place on the pivot pin.What is shown is all I got from the mold, before failure. So very sad!
This was much faster than casting them one at a time with my lyman mold, that’s for sure. I'm gonna write skiesunlimited, and see what he says.
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h314/BobbyIronsights/bummold.jpg
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h314/BobbyIronsights/bummold2.jpg