buyobuyo
01-23-2011, 08:40 PM
discover an ancient chinese secret to perfect boolits? :lol:
Just got done casting another batch of boolits from my Mihec 125-HP. I started out as usual with the mold guide on my pot set with about a 1/4" to 3/8" gap between the sprue plate and spout, and I was experience the same problems as before with the rear cavity having poor base fill out about every 4th poor. After a while, I noticed that the fill out problem seemed to occur if the stream didn't go down the center of the sprue hole. I cast like this for a while longer trying to keep the hole center under the spout. However, it messed up my rhythm, and the boolits started sticking to the pins.
Then I decided to try pouring with the sprue hole against the spout, and instantly I was getting prefect fill out. [smilie=w: It also results in minimal sprue because the pot acts as the sprue puddle during the pour and the bullets can be dropped almost immediately after pouring, so you can cast faster. :lovebooli
Does anyone else do this?
Just got done casting another batch of boolits from my Mihec 125-HP. I started out as usual with the mold guide on my pot set with about a 1/4" to 3/8" gap between the sprue plate and spout, and I was experience the same problems as before with the rear cavity having poor base fill out about every 4th poor. After a while, I noticed that the fill out problem seemed to occur if the stream didn't go down the center of the sprue hole. I cast like this for a while longer trying to keep the hole center under the spout. However, it messed up my rhythm, and the boolits started sticking to the pins.
Then I decided to try pouring with the sprue hole against the spout, and instantly I was getting prefect fill out. [smilie=w: It also results in minimal sprue because the pot acts as the sprue puddle during the pour and the bullets can be dropped almost immediately after pouring, so you can cast faster. :lovebooli
Does anyone else do this?