burrs on Lee mold

[rhill]

I have a new Lee 9mm 6 cavity mold, complete with a rough base area on 2 of the cavities. This is a bevel base mold. Is there a way to smooth these out that the average moron can handle? The boolits hang up when the mold is opened, gets annoying. I am not sure how to do this without ruining the boolit base. Thanks for any help I can get. Next time I will just buy a NOE and be done, I was just trying to be cheap this time. Lesson learned.

[country gent]

You can disasemble the mould dowwn to the blocks. Clamp together on the pins and lightly polish the tops of the blocks with a piece of fine wet dry sand paper 400 grit to 600 grit backed on a hard flat sirface. Coat the tops of the blocks with a black magic marker. use water or a very light oil on the paper working blocks in a figure 8 pattern. check to see progress. when ll the ink is gone they are normally done. Also check the bottom of the sprue plate as a rough plate can cause this also.

[rhill]

Thanks country gent! Great idea. I have a heavy piece of glass I can use to polish on. You may be right about the sprue plate. I did not notice the roughness on the blocks until after I cast some with the mold. I will check out sprue plate tomorrow, may have to polish it a bit too. I can always count on the smart folks here for some good help! One more solution to a problem to file away in the back of my pea brain. Thanks again!