Foto Joe
01-17-2015, 12:36 PM
Recently I switched over from 2-hole Lee molds to the 6-hole versions and quickly found out that those 6-hole molds get too hot quickly if you just start ripping along. To counter that, yesterday I put a new 429-200RF six cavity back together after prepping it out of the box and then grabbed my 311041 two cavity to use along with it. While the six cav was getting it's first few pours and working out the wrinkles the Lyman was parked on top of the pot warming up. Once I got a good cast with the Lee I filled it again, set it down and poured the Lyman and just started running the two molds letting each cool while I dumped and refilled the other.
Here's where the epiphany comes in: Although the Lee stayed hot enough to drop frosted boolits it didn't over heat and start smearing sprues. The Lyman was dropping beautiful shiny boolits that I wasn't really paying too close attention to figuring that I'd just cull them out when I was done which as it turned out there were only about three that went back into the pot. Apparently I've been casting a bit too fast for quite some time, slowing down produced some really nice 30 caliber boolits and kept me from sitting there staring at an aluminum six cavity mold waiting for it to cool down.
I guess the moral to the story is: Try to learn something new every day.
Here's where the epiphany comes in: Although the Lee stayed hot enough to drop frosted boolits it didn't over heat and start smearing sprues. The Lyman was dropping beautiful shiny boolits that I wasn't really paying too close attention to figuring that I'd just cull them out when I was done which as it turned out there were only about three that went back into the pot. Apparently I've been casting a bit too fast for quite some time, slowing down produced some really nice 30 caliber boolits and kept me from sitting there staring at an aluminum six cavity mold waiting for it to cool down.
I guess the moral to the story is: Try to learn something new every day.