Mold Guide for H&G 8/10 Cavity Moulds

[rbwillnj]

Is anyone using H&G 8 or 10 Cavity moulds with a Lyman bottom pour pot? If so what have you engineered as a mould guide?

They say pictures are worth a thousand words.


Bruce Williams

[lightman]

Not just for H&G molds, but I have made a few mold guides for others. I have been pretty happy with using pieces of square tubing, either steel or aluminum, of the correct height. I drill and tap threads and mount them to the base plate. Then I cut a couple of pieces of flat bar for guide rails. Polished up or painted, they look pretty nice. You can do without the guide rails. Sorry, I don't have any pictures.

[skeettx]

I just stack up some one pound ingots

http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/MVC-027S19.JPG

Not me, but I do like his method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1bp8Cl3L8A


Mike

[rbwillnj]

skeettx


I like that too, especially the method for cutting the sprues. I'm sure it causes much less wear on the mold and sprue plate.

[Moonie]

Which Lyman bottom pour pot? I have the Mag25 with the guide from NOE, completely different pot with that guide.

[rbwillnj]

I have the previous version, but I have been thinking of getting the new one.