How to get your aluminum molds from this....
.....to this.....
.... to this... in just "one" word!
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How to get your aluminum molds from this....
.....to this.....
.... to this... in just "one" word!
There are so many calibers and bullet designs because there are so many different targets... the target is everything.
I'd rather keep my moulds to the original specification. It appears "easy off" eats at the cavity and doubles the length of the boolit. ¥$@#%€£!!!!
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I can't imagine any of mine ever getting that dirty, and a few of my 6 cav's have over 30,000 bullets through them.
Definitely two different molds and if any of mine ever got that bad I'd just chuck it.
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Not really that "dirty" just very heavily smoked. LEE recommends smoking the cavities, I don't care to. Thanks for the tip, I wonder how the Easy Off does on burnt on pin lube?
Ummmmm take a piece of aluminum foil make a cup spay in some easy off close the top ..........poof holey aluminum . No easy off on my aluminum anything. Did I mention the gases ?
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Eh, what's a little hydrogen matter, or pitted molds.Originally Posted by Harter66
Please ignore the spelling, "autocorrect" should be renamed.
Could we use this to enlarge undersize molds?
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Yup, either crazy heavily smoked or sprayed with graphite mold release. I won't be using that cleaning method, when dawn dish soap works just fine.
Once dirty, now clean.....
When we rebuilt the screw air compressors at work we used easy Off oven cleaner to remove the hard oil and grease deposits. It worked good there,better than solvent tanks and or the hot caustic soda tank. Easy off is hard on aluminum as is the caustic soda. On steel moulds it should be fine though. I use dawn dish soap and water with a tooth brush normally. On heavy deposits brake cleaner, or carb cleaner with a tooth brush.
Exactly.. Oven cleaner will be hard on aluminum.
I smoked my lee dies when I got them after checking for machining burs , etc.
A wipe off left them smoked but clean, they drop lead with no issues.
I can't imagine a mold looking that bad. My oldest mold is a Lyman (steel), used when i got it, and oxidized a hair, but not 1% as bad as those pics. It throws nice musket balls after a mild cleaning, smoke and wipe down.
And the heuristic algorithm gets stupider, not smarter...
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We used stuff like oven cleaner in the marines to get rifles as clean as they expected them to be. Yea it got em clean but it wasnt kind to the rifles. Imagine would mess up the low grade aluminum Lee uses pretty easy.
Easy-off is great for getting paint off glass. I don't think I would use it on Aluminum though.
R.D.M.
The Easy Off web site recommends not using on aluminum because it may pit or discolor.
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If they cast good boolits why clean them?
You said that is soot from smoking the molds. Did you try a piece of tissue paper to clean off the face of the mold and a cotton swab to clean out the cavity before breaking out the "Aluminum destroyer"?
Easy Off ingredients
Effects of Sodium Hydroxide on Aluminum <- that's 40% NaOH, Easy Off is only 5%, but it's still nasty
??? Why the sarcasm?
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