PatMarlin
11-05-2006, 06:09 PM
I gotta confess I had my most favorable casting session ever today with my new 6 banger group buy molds!... [smilie=w:
We've got a KickaPoo combination here folks! Everyone of these molds dropped like (to quote a famous cast booliteer) Mazatlan Cliff Diver! Every one was on and over spec in diameter. With the combination of Bullshop Dan's plate lube, holy cow... I thought I'd never say this but "Step Aside Veral"... :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Here's another remarkable thing...
I was concerned about heavy boolits and the 6 bang mold with RanchDog's RD TLC-460-RFB but guess what???... it was the easiest and nicest caster out of the bunch! Seems like the bigger the boolit, the better the cast. Haven't had time to try Cat's 360gr .461 yet.
They all cast outstanding bollits... Cat's Keith Series 45, and the .357. Chargar's 311407, and RanchDog's heavy beast. Now I rate the performance of my Cast Boolit/Lee molds to be the best of the best, and until now only LBT held that rank in my book.. :Fire:
For those new to 6 bangers (and I was cept for the fat-30), here's exactly what I did to get a great cast session:
Unwrapped the molds and set them all in a big stainless steel frypan, with Dawn detergent, and water and softly boiled them for 20 minutes. Pulled each piece out and rinsed under the faucet with hot water. Dried on the wood stove.
Before installing handles I held each half over a propane flame to smoke the cavities good. Not sooty, just darkened. This preheated the mold, so then I took a Q-tip with Bullshop Plate lube, and lubed the bottom side of the spruce and hinge first!, then the alignment pins, then wiped the excess off of the spruce plate with a new Q-tip. Then and only then I used the excess Q-tip to lightly and carefully wipe down the top of the mold, without getting any into the cavities. This was a real faint, dry wipe. Didn't even need to get right next to the cavity, just got close.
Pre-heated the mold, and with hot WW lead they dropped like butter, most all on the very first cast. Fill out was awesome. I later added a little more Plate lube to the underside of the spruce plate and hinge only. Not a smear in the bunch!!
The combination of skill and knowledge on this forum is unprecedented IMO.
Did I forget to say I really like these molds?... :bigsmyl2:
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We've got a KickaPoo combination here folks! Everyone of these molds dropped like (to quote a famous cast booliteer) Mazatlan Cliff Diver! Every one was on and over spec in diameter. With the combination of Bullshop Dan's plate lube, holy cow... I thought I'd never say this but "Step Aside Veral"... :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Here's another remarkable thing...
I was concerned about heavy boolits and the 6 bang mold with RanchDog's RD TLC-460-RFB but guess what???... it was the easiest and nicest caster out of the bunch! Seems like the bigger the boolit, the better the cast. Haven't had time to try Cat's 360gr .461 yet.
They all cast outstanding bollits... Cat's Keith Series 45, and the .357. Chargar's 311407, and RanchDog's heavy beast. Now I rate the performance of my Cast Boolit/Lee molds to be the best of the best, and until now only LBT held that rank in my book.. :Fire:
For those new to 6 bangers (and I was cept for the fat-30), here's exactly what I did to get a great cast session:
Unwrapped the molds and set them all in a big stainless steel frypan, with Dawn detergent, and water and softly boiled them for 20 minutes. Pulled each piece out and rinsed under the faucet with hot water. Dried on the wood stove.
Before installing handles I held each half over a propane flame to smoke the cavities good. Not sooty, just darkened. This preheated the mold, so then I took a Q-tip with Bullshop Plate lube, and lubed the bottom side of the spruce and hinge first!, then the alignment pins, then wiped the excess off of the spruce plate with a new Q-tip. Then and only then I used the excess Q-tip to lightly and carefully wipe down the top of the mold, without getting any into the cavities. This was a real faint, dry wipe. Didn't even need to get right next to the cavity, just got close.
Pre-heated the mold, and with hot WW lead they dropped like butter, most all on the very first cast. Fill out was awesome. I later added a little more Plate lube to the underside of the spruce plate and hinge only. Not a smear in the bunch!!
The combination of skill and knowledge on this forum is unprecedented IMO.
Did I forget to say I really like these molds?... :bigsmyl2:
...