Just took delivery of a new Lee Two cavity mold for my 38-55 Sharps.
AS ALWAYS, LOL! I read the instructions before using, what an eye opener!!
For the First time they are telling people to not use LLA to lube bullet mold!
Can it be they've learned something at last or have they hired someone who actually casts boolits??
In either case the revised instructions are suggesting using beeswax ( of which I think not) or th use Permatex Anti-sieze lubricant on hinge pins and alignment pins.
Anti-sieze has been my long time preferred lube for molds as it has a huge temperature band in which it works without running all over the place and by that I mean straight into a cavity!
This must be a fairly new change as I bought a 401 SWC mold for my 40 S&W mid last year and it still had the old instructions in it.
Whatever the reason it's good to see a change for the better here, the instructions still have some bad ideas, such as hitting the sprue plate before the sprue puddle harden's ( what genius thought that one up??) but the new stuff is still welcome and has been a long time coming.
Hopefully I'll be surprised by other cool improvements: Like an actual QC dept? One can only hope and wait and see.
HM