We’ve probably all done it

[Tazman1602]

…OK so it’s been a while since I cast. My typical routine is to cast several hundred if not more then size, lube and shoot for a year or more.

Recently I’ve aquired a new Uberti Sharps 45-70 and found I only had a few dozen BRP 420gr hollow point left so I fired up the lead pot — I had a new Miha 400gr Keith style mold I wanted to try. Heated up the hot plate and got to casting —- YUCK! Cold mold, wrinkly bullets ARRRGGH! Keep throwing them.

At last I started throwing really nice bullets, dumped the mold and thought “DANG that one is niicccc Aaaaaahhhhh!

I am now drinking coffee with my left hand for a week……as thumb and forefinger of righty are blistered…

Keep casting!

Art

[Thumbcocker]

Been there done that.

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[Hossfly]

Yea my new motto is every thing is hot all the time.

[Wheelguns 1961]

I was casting in my garage when my neighbor came over for a visit. He is a shooter and hunter, but he doesn’t reload or cast. He had never seen anybody cast bullets. Well, he started to reach in my box to pick one up, when I quickly stopped him. I said they are very hot. He thanked me.

[Biggin]

Yeah it's like blacksmithing or welding just cuz it ain't glowing mean it ain't hot. Guilty as well.

[Biggin]

Dang phone! Don't mean it ain't hot.

[Dusty Bannister]

A good friend of mine used to teach Metals at a High School nearby. One of the students may not have been paying attention but was watching another student cut off a piece of angle iron for a project. The first kid picked it up and immediately dropped it. Teacher asked if it was hot? Kid said, no, just does not take me long to look at it. That is what he told me, but I think it is a story.

[txbirdman]

Yep. That’s why I cast in mechanic’s gloves.

[charlie b]

ROFLMAO. I still get reminded of what hot is every now and then.

First I remember was as a little kid (6yo??). Mom had finished cooking on the electric oven. I knew that red meant hot but I just wondered what black was like, so, planted my hand on the still hot burner. The burners must have cooled a bit cause I just raised one blister.

[Three44s]

That joke is used by our ranch hand and I. If there is something hot around and he gets in range of it, I warn him, “It won’t take you long to look at that one”.

We both get a chuckle as he brought that joke to me!

Three44s

[G W Wade]

Funny thing is when you grab that hot one your natural reaction is the squeeze harder cause you think it's slipping. Too late GW

[Winger Ed.]

Now days, I don't take off my heavy gloves until I'm done and push away from the bench.

[country gent]

I used to tell Dad No matter how pretty they are they are still hot.

[Minerat]

Do you know the even green PC'ed boolits right out of the oven are hot. and if the PC is still fluid it is even hotter.

[Baltimoreed]

My .45 pc’s don’t stay hot for long as when they come out of the oven they get dropped into a 5 gal water cooler jug about half full of water. Cools them right off. Never gotten burned bad, knock on wood.

[45workhorse]

Nope, never ever done that before

in high school we would make aluminum casting of different things. Well pouring the molds you would get a little splatter on the ground I would wait till they were good and cool, pick up a piece and lay it on someone's hand/arm while they are watching, they would still jump like I just burned them.

[Stephen Cohen]

normally cast at a purpose built table with rolled up edges so no danger of lead running down my lap, so I though, I dropped a 230gr .452 cast and it bounced into my lap, now all would have been good but I closed my legs to catch it. Missed the important bits but I still carry the mark above the knees. Regards Stephen

[tazman]

That is one of the reasons I water quench from the mold.

[buckwheatpaul]

…OK so it’s been a while since I cast. My typical routine is to cast several hundred if not more then size, lube and shoot for a year or more.

Recently I’ve aquired a new Uberti Sharps 45-70 and found I only had a few dozen BRP 420gr hollow point left so I fired up the lead pot — I had a new Miha 400gr Keith style mold I wanted to try. Heated up the hot plate and got to casting —- YUCK! Cold mold, wrinkly bullets ARRRGGH! Keep throwing them.

At last I started throwing really nice bullets, dumped the mold and thought “DANG that one is niicccc Aaaaaahhhhh!

I am now drinking coffee with my left hand for a week……as thumb and forefinger of righty are blistered…

Keep casting!

Art

Been there done that.....I learned a long time ago to wear welding gloves....glad you are going to be ok....a year or so ago someone rerun a post on safety and casting boolits.....like you it has been a while since I cast so .... at least at my age I need to review those safety...get well brother and have a wonderful and blessed Christmas!

[pworley1]

Lead is like glass. You can't tell how hot it is by looking at it.