View Full Version : 434-250 is HERE...:-) :-) :-)
Willbird
08-04-2005, 04:37 PM
Dougie's new lathe is FAST I guess, it has been less than 4 weeks since they recieved the order and $$
I will cast a few tomorrow to verify there is not some error, and get to shipping them out to the lucky owners...............there are extras...........
Bill
Bigscot
08-04-2005, 07:23 PM
I might be interested in one of the extras. Could you post a pic of the mould and the finished boolit?
BS
TCLouis
08-04-2005, 07:33 PM
Thanx for your efforts.
Seems like the "easier" molds are quicker.
May be the new CNC machine at Lee also!
buck1
08-04-2005, 11:19 PM
[QUOTE=TCLouis]Thanx for your efforts. QUOTE]
The same from me also!!!!!!! ....Buck
Willbird
08-05-2005, 12:12 AM
BigScott I will do that tomorrow, there are drawings on the bullet on the thread about it in group buy's
Bill
Willbird
08-05-2005, 03:59 PM
I cleaned my copy of the 434-250 mold with dawn dish detergeant a toothbrush, and hot water, I removed the sprue plate and stoned off it's underside, and lightly stoned the top of the mold blocks, I re-assembled with dabs of Lee liquid alox on the moving bits. I smoked the cavities with a butane lighter.
I heated the rcbs pro-melt and starting making bullets. after about 6 throws we were making good bullets, I cast 100 or so.
They measure .4320 to .4335 with .0005-.001 out of round, 10 samples pulled at random weighed 248 to 248.5 grains.
Knowing Lee I figuired the dia was going to run smaller than the .434 we specced out.
I did shoot a few and accuracy at 50 yards was 2-3 inches right out of the box, that is the best my Redhawk has ever shot with cast bullets.
We are getting the molds ready to ship now
Bill
drinks
08-05-2005, 10:08 PM
Bill;
Looks fine, nice big base band so I will not have any problems turning for a gas check.
Thanks again for letting me in at the last minute.
Don
drinks
08-05-2005, 10:10 PM
Bill;
Were the different diameters from different cavities, or did you check them that way?
Don
Willbird
08-05-2005, 10:14 PM
I did not sort them for cavity no.
Bill
Buckshot
08-07-2005, 07:44 AM
..............Willbird, if your alloy was WW and someone wanted a fatter slug, all they'd have to do would be to add 5lbs or so of lino (to a 20lb pot) to fatten a slug that diameter up to a bit over .434 from the .4335" measurement.
.............Buckshot
45 2.1
08-07-2005, 09:43 AM
I see something else that was changed. Dougie put a three degree draft on the meplat, that wasn't spec'd like that. It was supposed to be a flat nose! I wish "that guy" would cut them as spec'd!!!
Bass Ackward
08-07-2005, 12:31 PM
I see something else that was changed. Dougie put a three degree draft on the meplat, that wasn't spec'd like that. It was supposed to be a flat nose! I wish "that guy" would cut them as spec'd!!!
Bob,
I wondered about that.
Willbird
08-07-2005, 04:04 PM
Well most folks thought the .434 was too big (and I built in the extra thou just in case Dougie made them small), so I was willing to set with that, but on the 314-120 we are lining up, if they come out that much under print they are going back to Lee.
Bill
buck1
08-07-2005, 07:42 PM
Bob,
I wondered about that.
I thought it was the camera angle. ...Buck
Willbird
08-07-2005, 08:01 PM
Well I knew there would be some draft there, did not take a bullet to work and run it across the optical comparator to measure it.
Bill
buck1
08-07-2005, 09:54 PM
Silght angle or not, It sure looks gooooood TO ME !!!!!! :) .....BUCK
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