Now I'm a dipper !

[Digger]

Perusing thru the local Craig's list and spotted something that caught my eye ...
made a phone call and the man said "come get it !"..
Don't really need it as I already have a Lee 20, bottom pour and a nice older lyman ten lb. bottom pour but at the price he stated ..... had to , could not ignore it.
Besides it is full of lead also .. if the lead is any good , will have to find out ...
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[dbosman]

Great score.

[USMC87]

Hey, Dipping your own is good, That Mag 20 looks excellent.

[Beagle333]

Awesome find! :coffeecom

I'm still waiting on my great find..... some estate sale of a treasure trove of molds, or a chance meeting with some old plumber who piled a train car full of old lead pipes in the woods behind his shed, or the retired printer who still has a basement full of lino.... or :popcorn:



(I'd settle for finding a lost (actual lead) WW in the WalMart parking lot):wink:

[Digger]

I did pay a certain amount ..... forty dollars , as I was looking thru the ads , another individual was posting , "wanted , lead bars , will pay $1.50 a pound".
figured if I take the lead out of it , roughly 18 lbs and sell it back to the to the the $1.50 man ...:drinks:

[Mk42gunner]

Now now, no reason to be greedy. Besides, you will probably regret selling the lead later.

Robert

[Digger]

Now now, no reason to be greedy. Besides, you will probably regret selling the lead later.

Robert
You are right there Gunner .... my bad ! ....:roll:

[TXGunNut]

Nice find. A couple of my Lyman moulds would be perfectly happy hanging out with that Lyman furnace. My Lee moulds are quite happy with my Lee bottom pour. Go figure.

[Digger]

Nice find. A couple of my Lyman moulds would be perfectly happy hanging out with that Lyman furnace. My Lee moulds are quite happy with my Lee bottom pour. Go figure.
Yeah , I wonder how Miha's brass molds will work with the dipping technique and have to figure out what brand of dipper or ladle to get ....

[Beagle333]

My MiHec brass mold likes dipping. I just use the Lyman dipper.
This one: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001OPLJUU/?tag=mh0b-20&hvadid=2278885593&ref=pd_sl_93gxd86zxp_e
http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt214/shutupandjump/cast%20boolits/2-16-13_zps5b9aff80.jpg
http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt214/shutupandjump/cast%20boolits/Picture019_zps61f8a684.jpg

[Digger]

Hey , how about that .. have the same mold from Miha ..;)
Been using it for quite a while now in my 586 , loves it ..
All my brass molds are his and the latest is the 30 sil hp I picked up a while back and kind of looking forward to see how it works , ladle vs bottom pour ....
Don't tell any one but it looks like I might be going "both ways" ...[smilie=1:

[Digger]

Wow ! .... heated this puppy up today to see how things work with the existing lead that is in it.
The melt was in the right temp range for lead but when I dropped the first ones with my dipper ....
they came out shiny as a mirror ! ( using a Miha 30 sil hp mold)
I have never had any melt drop like that , so I deduced it must be an extremely tin rich alloy that was in the pot in the first place.
I have dipped out about 10 or 12 pounds into 1/2 pound ingots and will save for future alloy mixing .
Was on my way back from Washington , got off the plane in Reno and my usual stop by Sheels or Sportsman Warehouse and guess what Sportsman had on the shelf ... a RCBS lead dipper , that made my week end but the shelves look even more bare with no primers or powder to speak of ..
digger