clodhopper
08-02-2008, 10:42 PM
Strolling through a local pawn shop I spied two four cavity molds with handels. the moulds are similar and one handel is stamped Hensley & Gibbs. No other identyfieing marks. I am not familar with H&G products but these are diffrent from Lyman, or RCBS moulds.
One is 38 wadcutter like lyman #358459, the other is semi wadcutter with long slim truncated cone kinda like Lyman #356402 but longer plus a crimp groove.
Maybe paid to much. 50 bucks for the two. Spent a couple hours working on the sprue plate screws. One new screw and some tap and die cleanup of threads.
Still have some rust and lead stuck to them.
Going to fire up the pot tomorrow, warm them up and wipe the lead off the sprue plate, top of the blocks and the splattered faces. Put some bullplate lube on them, then see if some good boolits come out.
One is 38 wadcutter like lyman #358459, the other is semi wadcutter with long slim truncated cone kinda like Lyman #356402 but longer plus a crimp groove.
Maybe paid to much. 50 bucks for the two. Spent a couple hours working on the sprue plate screws. One new screw and some tap and die cleanup of threads.
Still have some rust and lead stuck to them.
Going to fire up the pot tomorrow, warm them up and wipe the lead off the sprue plate, top of the blocks and the splattered faces. Put some bullplate lube on them, then see if some good boolits come out.