Core bonding plate

[ohnomrbillk]

I remember a thread where someone made a plate out of perhaps aluminum.

It was designed to sit in the bottom of a Lee pot.

There where holes drilled in it to hold jackets upright.

It was made to bond numerous cores at once.

It had a bolt for a handle in the center of the disk so you could lower it into a pot and remove when ready.

I’d really like to find the thread because it had a great picture, but I’m not having much luck. A point in the right direction would be most appreciated.

[clodhopper]

I posted that. The process left me with loose cores. Possibly 2015.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...ing-22lr-brass

[Time Killer]

I have bonded using a lee pot. I can not say how it works with 22lr jackets as I have not done enough testing with those yet. I can say that conversion of 9mm brass then melting the cores in a lee pot for my 357, 358 and 450 bushmaster has worked great. My results showed occasional core separation in the 358 (35 Remington and 358 Yeti)and 450 bushmaster when tested at approximately 10 feet and shot into plastic mulch. The results were consistent with my test utilizing hot core factory bullets as they showed occasional separation at that distance in the same media. This method was done by placing the converted brass in the bottom of a lee ladle pot and melting the cores in the brass not direct pore from a bottom pour pot.

[clodhopper]

Thinking about it later, the idea was conceived of having pound or two of lead in the pot for better transfer of heat. But never tried it.
The heating was so slow, the flux was all dead, dry, and black before the lead melted.
Washing the flux off in the tumbler with lemishine, and dawn revealed lots of loose cores.

[rancher1913]

I picked up some corbin core bond and was going to try it but got to thinking, after you bond the core, you still have to point form and that squeezes the lead. seamed like a waste of time so i never experimented with it.

[clodhopper]

I have been successful using Corbin core bond, but would prefer doing batches vs the heat one at a time with a torch of the corbin method.