gray wolf
03-10-2014, 09:19 PM
I couldn't stand the boredom any longer so today it was 30* and sunny ( it was gosh darn cold )
But it has been very cold here in Maine so today seem like a good day.
I looked outside at the snow covered ground and Julie looked at me and shook her head horizontally as to say:
NO! your not going to cast ? I shook my head vertically as to say yes I am.
She said your 72 years old and your going to stand out in this cold ? I said I am 22 you just can't count.
I C-clamped a 2X2 piece of ply wood to the deck rail and put card board around the part of the Lee 20 pound pot to keep the cold out and let the thermostat read correctly
and not go into thermal runaway ( it didn't help )
I had to keep pulling the plug every time the pot temp tried to get above 725* A bit of a trick but doable.
I was able to cast 250 very nice 357 bullets in about 45 Minutes.
The point of all this is I got to try the new mold lube that BTROJ recommended in this thread.
Well it worked VERY well, No lead on top of the Iron mold, no lead on top of a brass mold. And just the smallest hint of a smear ( very little wiped off with a rag ) on the bottom of the sprue plate around the holes.
I like it, I put the oil in a syringe and put a few ( 3 or 4 drops on a 2"X2" piece of old T-shirt and just rubbed the parts of the mold to be lubed, You could hardly see it was there. ( don't over do it )
The bottle I got was about 8OZ. I think, and I expect to will it to some luck person that survives this old geezer.
Thank you Sir for some good advise. The Lube is mentioned in a sticky called Mold lube.
It's worth a look see.
Gray wolf
But it has been very cold here in Maine so today seem like a good day.
I looked outside at the snow covered ground and Julie looked at me and shook her head horizontally as to say:
NO! your not going to cast ? I shook my head vertically as to say yes I am.
She said your 72 years old and your going to stand out in this cold ? I said I am 22 you just can't count.
I C-clamped a 2X2 piece of ply wood to the deck rail and put card board around the part of the Lee 20 pound pot to keep the cold out and let the thermostat read correctly
and not go into thermal runaway ( it didn't help )
I had to keep pulling the plug every time the pot temp tried to get above 725* A bit of a trick but doable.
I was able to cast 250 very nice 357 bullets in about 45 Minutes.
The point of all this is I got to try the new mold lube that BTROJ recommended in this thread.
Well it worked VERY well, No lead on top of the Iron mold, no lead on top of a brass mold. And just the smallest hint of a smear ( very little wiped off with a rag ) on the bottom of the sprue plate around the holes.
I like it, I put the oil in a syringe and put a few ( 3 or 4 drops on a 2"X2" piece of old T-shirt and just rubbed the parts of the mold to be lubed, You could hardly see it was there. ( don't over do it )
The bottle I got was about 8OZ. I think, and I expect to will it to some luck person that survives this old geezer.
Thank you Sir for some good advise. The Lube is mentioned in a sticky called Mold lube.
It's worth a look see.
Gray wolf