Johnw...ski
09-26-2008, 03:40 PM
Included in my order from Midsouth yesterday was a Lee 20 lb. casting pot with out the bottom pour feature and a RCBS ladle that cost almost as much as the pot.
I made a bracket to accept my thermometer just like the one I made for my Lee 10 lb. bottom pour pot and proceded to melt some alloy that is approximately 30 to 1. This was my first attempt at casting with a ladle, the first 5 or 6 boolits had slightly rounded edges and then it all came together, nice shiny well filled out boolits. The production is about the same as the bottom pour maybe a little faster
when you consider all the boolits that go back into the pot when bottom pouring.
The rare boolits I threw back today were mostly because I didn't wait long enough while filling the mold causing a small void in the base.
I took 10 boolits into the house and weighed them, 9 were with in + or - 2/10 gr.
and one was 1 gr. less than the rest. This will certainly help the quality of my boolits.
You guys have been preaching the benefits of using a ladle, and I am a believer.
Thanks,
John
I made a bracket to accept my thermometer just like the one I made for my Lee 10 lb. bottom pour pot and proceded to melt some alloy that is approximately 30 to 1. This was my first attempt at casting with a ladle, the first 5 or 6 boolits had slightly rounded edges and then it all came together, nice shiny well filled out boolits. The production is about the same as the bottom pour maybe a little faster
when you consider all the boolits that go back into the pot when bottom pouring.
The rare boolits I threw back today were mostly because I didn't wait long enough while filling the mold causing a small void in the base.
I took 10 boolits into the house and weighed them, 9 were with in + or - 2/10 gr.
and one was 1 gr. less than the rest. This will certainly help the quality of my boolits.
You guys have been preaching the benefits of using a ladle, and I am a believer.
Thanks,
John