brimic
08-18-2005, 08:57 AM
I heard it through the grapevine that the father of my wife's friend (the lady who lives next door to me) works for Lee. He also does repair work on my wife's car so the otehr day when he came over to pick up her car that needed some engine work, I struck up a conversation with him.
It turns out that he's one of two guys that makes the tooling for and cuts the moulds for Lee.He said he has to wear a jeweler's loupe to see and cut the fine details on the cutting tool, and when the moulds are made, the aluminum block is put on a bridgeport mill, all the cavities are cut one by one, then the other half of the mould is cut the same way.
He also repairs moulds that are sent back by customers for repairs. From what he told me, the biggest problem is with people not lubing the moulds properly where the moulds get scratched up under the sprue plate and that it was absolutely necessary to lube the surface with a little bit of stick lube.
He's an avid shooter and reloader, but he doesn't do any bullet casting other than for testing moulds at his workplace. Next time I talk to him, probably later this week, I'll give him the url to this website, he might be interested in it.
It turns out that he's one of two guys that makes the tooling for and cuts the moulds for Lee.He said he has to wear a jeweler's loupe to see and cut the fine details on the cutting tool, and when the moulds are made, the aluminum block is put on a bridgeport mill, all the cavities are cut one by one, then the other half of the mould is cut the same way.
He also repairs moulds that are sent back by customers for repairs. From what he told me, the biggest problem is with people not lubing the moulds properly where the moulds get scratched up under the sprue plate and that it was absolutely necessary to lube the surface with a little bit of stick lube.
He's an avid shooter and reloader, but he doesn't do any bullet casting other than for testing moulds at his workplace. Next time I talk to him, probably later this week, I'll give him the url to this website, he might be interested in it.