Hi there, I'm still relativelynew to casting but I've done tons of reading and lurking here on the forum. So far I've been learning on lee 2-cav molds. Results have been ok considering I'm still in the learning process. It takes me a while to dial in my timing/mold temp etc, but once I get going I've made some usable boolits. So For my birthday I bought myself a lee 6-cav for my 45acp (I know I'm a big spender) that I've been shooting much more. It seemed like I just couldn't get dialed in. I was running the lead a little hot to keep the mold up to temp since I wasn't getting filled in lube grooves. Then by the time I was getting nice fill the boolits were really frosted. Frustrated I slowly brought the temp lower slowly and FINALLY thought I got to were they were filling out good enough and coming out relatively smooth and shiny. Then snap... the cam lever for the sprue plate broke off. I never forced it or felt heavy resistance, and I did follow the directions given with the molds. After all the effort I ended up with maybe 10 serviceable boolits, though they are far from examples of fine casting skills haha. I just shook my head in disbelief, and turned off the pot and called it a day. I had my other molds at the ready, but I just didnt have the clear head to fire them up. Sigh... I've got a lot of learning to do.I know a couple areas where i could have improved. For one I probably needed some tin in the alloy, which was COWW mix with a little range scrap in there. I think this may have helped with the fill out at lower temps? I just had to tell someone who cared. My lady stopped listening at "You stupid sprue plate... *%$$@&"
-Sam