GREENCOUNTYPETE
03-03-2011, 01:34 PM
sunday night i melted up a batch of lead , i had been doing more reading and found in the lee book the recomendation of adding tin that even 1% tin was enough to fill out a mold
a little digging in the basment and i found some lead free sodder so mostly tin i had maybe 8 inches of it and tossed it all in the pot hoping that would be enough, well it must have been
my first attempt had left very uggly boolits mold was to cold
the second had gotten better and left decent but not perfect looking boolits soem with a few wrinkles i had figured out how to keep the mold hot enough but not quit the crisp clean shiny boolits i see here
3rd cast with the addtion of tin , left 100 very nice fully filled out wrinkle free crisp clean edged boolits and 4 rejects varried issues , but i think most were opened before cool enough
now this was a 50 cal Lee R.E.A.L single cavity mold i was borrowing i returned it and brought the owner a bag of boolits for letting me borrow his mold
being muzzle stuffers sizing isn't a concern as they fit down the bore maybe a little tough to start but otherwise fine
now i have my eye on the Lee TL430-240SWC
if i can pour nice air cooled 250 gr .50cal i should be fine pouring 240gr 44cal and water dropping them
a little digging in the basment and i found some lead free sodder so mostly tin i had maybe 8 inches of it and tossed it all in the pot hoping that would be enough, well it must have been
my first attempt had left very uggly boolits mold was to cold
the second had gotten better and left decent but not perfect looking boolits soem with a few wrinkles i had figured out how to keep the mold hot enough but not quit the crisp clean shiny boolits i see here
3rd cast with the addtion of tin , left 100 very nice fully filled out wrinkle free crisp clean edged boolits and 4 rejects varried issues , but i think most were opened before cool enough
now this was a 50 cal Lee R.E.A.L single cavity mold i was borrowing i returned it and brought the owner a bag of boolits for letting me borrow his mold
being muzzle stuffers sizing isn't a concern as they fit down the bore maybe a little tough to start but otherwise fine
now i have my eye on the Lee TL430-240SWC
if i can pour nice air cooled 250 gr .50cal i should be fine pouring 240gr 44cal and water dropping them