I Envy Your Freedom! Please Help

[SHOOTER IN EXILE]

I have been a shooter since I was a kid. Only sport I practice. So it is evident that reloading have always been a must. Now I live in a country where shooters are looked upon as enemies of the regime. For thirty years it was relatively easy to get reloading components but now it is different. It might sound crazy or a mad man's dream. In my garage and on the kitchen table I have managed to provide myself with resizing dies from steel tubings, bullet molds from brass padlocks, bullet jackets from hardware store copper tubings, 380 ACP and 22 L.R. fired cases.
Recently on a trip to Miami, I purchased a two cavities Lyman bullet mold for my 7.57 Mauser rifle and also a two cavities 357 mold to cast bullets for 38 spl and 357 mag. plus the dies for both calibers. I don't have a proper melting pot nor a proper dipper, so I'm trying to manage with an iron pot and a dipper made from scrap and a camper's gas burner. The alloy is 10 percent solder's tin and 90 percent wheel weight.
I'm working on the 7.57 bullets and haven't managed to get a single satisfactory bullet. All are wrinkled in the nose area. I'm not sure if heating the mold would wrap it after the trouble I took to have it introduced through the customs. You could imagine the frustration after more than a hundred intents, getting the shiny but wrinkled casts.

Please, any information or suggestion is valuable to me.
Only two questions: Is altering the proportion of the alloy a solution? the other: Are the venting elements of the mold those tiny lines on the inner side of the molds and when and how should they be altered to improve the casting results?

I know it sounds crazy although I'm sure that if you have experienced a situation similar to shooters and mine You would understand. Getting reloading and bullet casting equipments is next to impossible.

I thank You in advance and a lot of thanks To Cast Boolits for giving me the oportunity. If possible I would like C.B. manager how to collaborate. I'm the newest member as far as I know.

[floodgate]

SHOOTER IN EXILE:

I'm very afraid you have given us a glimpse of the future here; we certainly admire your persistence!

Is there any way one of us could slip you a Lyman or RCBS dipper? It sounds like - in addition to maybe too low a casting temperature - you could use a bit more head pressure from a full dipper. You could probably get by with half or less the amount of solder you are using; 2% or so by weight of tin is enough to insure proper fillout. A very tiny bevel (a couple of thousandths at 45*) along the inner top edge of the blocks may help also with the venting and metal flow.

Keep us posted, and ask any questions you need to!

Floodgate

[Lead melter]

I'm with floodgate. Anything I can do to help, contribute, or assist is okay with me. Let us know how we can legally ship you some stuff and I'm sure a bunch would chip in.

[Pepe Ray]

A craftsman such as you can readily form a good dipper. Seek out, from restaurant or other food pantries suppliers, a stainless steel ladle. A soup ladle would be too large probably 1 cup or 250 mL. Perhaps it would be called a gravy ladle. My metrics is crude. I'd estimate about 100 ml volume would work.
A pouring lip/mouth should be bent into the bowl by squeezing it closed. You'd need to put some insulation on the handle. Perhaps wooden strips riveted on.
I commend you your efforts. We pray for your success. If you can get to Miami, why would you return?
Pepe Ray