JonB_in_Glencoe
02-05-2014, 11:09 AM
The old style Lee 410-195-SWC was notoriously undersized. I had bought an old style one a few years ago, I don't recall how thin/small it was, but it was too thin/small for my liking, I was a newbie then and didn't document things like that. Anyway, to show how notorious they were, a fellow member I sold it too, actually advertised in the WTB section for 'specifically' one of the undersized ones.
ANYWAY, like many other Lee molds built with the New style blocks and the New CNC machining methods...are being made to much better sizes. I'm glad to report the same with this one.
using 94-3-3 with that alloy at 680º, and the mold fairly hot, the boolits are dropping at .412 and 198gr.
Now to be fair, most of the new Lee molds I've bought lately drop the boolits freely, but this one must had had some burrs I couldn't see as the boolits stuck in the cavities quite badly. One "leementing" session and the boolits are falling right out. When these lightweight Lee 2 cav. molds work, they are just a joy to cast with.
http://i640.photobucket.com/albums/uu127/JonB_in_Glencoe/Lee410195SWC_zps62346f3d.jpg (http://s640.photobucket.com/user/JonB_in_Glencoe/media/Lee410195SWC_zps62346f3d.jpg.html)
ANYWAY, like many other Lee molds built with the New style blocks and the New CNC machining methods...are being made to much better sizes. I'm glad to report the same with this one.
using 94-3-3 with that alloy at 680º, and the mold fairly hot, the boolits are dropping at .412 and 198gr.
Now to be fair, most of the new Lee molds I've bought lately drop the boolits freely, but this one must had had some burrs I couldn't see as the boolits stuck in the cavities quite badly. One "leementing" session and the boolits are falling right out. When these lightweight Lee 2 cav. molds work, they are just a joy to cast with.
http://i640.photobucket.com/albums/uu127/JonB_in_Glencoe/Lee410195SWC_zps62346f3d.jpg (http://s640.photobucket.com/user/JonB_in_Glencoe/media/Lee410195SWC_zps62346f3d.jpg.html)