mozeppa
09-13-2014, 07:28 PM
thought i'd give it a try today.
read some instructions about my pid.
fired up my pot ...via the pid (wonderful tool!)
fired up my hot plate.
put in 4 plugs of wheel weights.
put my 9mm 125 gn. & 44 mag. 200 gn. molds on the hot plate.
and waited!
when the pid said "start now!" i did!...(well ...actually it said nothing but it "read" 720 degrees fah....good nuf fer me! )
had wrinkly boolits from the get go...figgered the mold wern't hot nuf ...and it wasn't.
added 3 feet of solder to 10 pounds wheel weights.
after a while i got the purdiest 9mm boolits ...but not the 44 mag..........mold still wasn't hot nuf.
then all at once the 44 mags got purdy too!
made 434 9mm and 105 44 mags all looking like these.
with bhn at 12 ish.
they have little mold lines and some sprue leftovers....how do i get rid of these prior to powder coating?
should i tumble them in sand blast silica to remove the burrs?
these also have very filled out square bases....how do i remove the burrs here?
do the make a boolit base beveling tool?
or do i need to buy molds with beveled bases?
heres my pix of of my handi-work.
read some instructions about my pid.
fired up my pot ...via the pid (wonderful tool!)
fired up my hot plate.
put in 4 plugs of wheel weights.
put my 9mm 125 gn. & 44 mag. 200 gn. molds on the hot plate.
and waited!
when the pid said "start now!" i did!...(well ...actually it said nothing but it "read" 720 degrees fah....good nuf fer me! )
had wrinkly boolits from the get go...figgered the mold wern't hot nuf ...and it wasn't.
added 3 feet of solder to 10 pounds wheel weights.
after a while i got the purdiest 9mm boolits ...but not the 44 mag..........mold still wasn't hot nuf.
then all at once the 44 mags got purdy too!
made 434 9mm and 105 44 mags all looking like these.
with bhn at 12 ish.
they have little mold lines and some sprue leftovers....how do i get rid of these prior to powder coating?
should i tumble them in sand blast silica to remove the burrs?
these also have very filled out square bases....how do i remove the burrs here?
do the make a boolit base beveling tool?
or do i need to buy molds with beveled bases?
heres my pix of of my handi-work.