I've been experimenting with dry graphite film, specifically NAPA's "DGF 123" for several months and am quite impressed with it. At first I just used it on top of the mold blocks and on both sides of the sprue plate instead of a soft pencil or graphite stick (available in art supply stores). Lately though, I've been spraying the mold cavities themselves, mostly to determine whether it works better than smoking them with a wooden match. I'm happy to report that it's fast, effective and can be applied to a hot or cold mold. E.g., I have several molds that can take as many as 1 doz. casts, sometimes more, before they drop perfect bullets. Re-smoking them helps, but dry graphite film cures them at once. Just the other day I was casting with my Buckshot-designed 8mm Lee mold and found small areas of poor fill-out on the nose in spite of correct temperature and a smoked (and resmoked) cavity. Spraying the hot cavity with DGF 123 cured the problem. As a final example. I traded TXBirdman for a new RCBS mold and figured after degreasing it, I'd try it on both [unsmoked] cavities, which I did. Voila! It dropped perfect bullets with no sticking at all. So far as I can tell, it doesn't wear off the cavities with use, but the sprue plate and mold top surfaces are a different story. I'm also hoping that it inhibits rust on iron molds as well. The NAPA brand comes in an alcohol carrier so it dries quickly. Almost forgot: I coat my lead dipper (ladle) and top & inner surfaces of my Lee furnace with it after I clean them to control the build-up of oxides. It works to a degree, more on the dipper than the inner lining of the furnace.