jeff423
02-01-2009, 11:19 PM
After taking some time to accumulate the equipment I started casting this afternoon.
Equipment: Lee bottom pour and WW ingots. Lee dual cavity .41 and Saeco 4 cavity .357
It went very well with good bullets after about the second pour.
I didn't have problems with wrinkled bullets at first because I had the lead and the mold too hot. I was getting frosting. I dialed down the temp and then started some getting filling problems.
Questions:
Does it matter how far the top of the mold is from the spout?
How fast should the lead flow, and does this have an effect on mold filling? It seemed that I was pouring too fast (for me) because sometimes the lead would overflow and block the next cavity. I slowed the flow down to the point that I got a sprue about the size of a shirt button on top of each cavity. How much sprue should I have?
In a multicavity mold do you start and stop the pour for each cavity or just keep it open and pull the mold along?
I was fairly pleased - I got a higher # of usable bullets (but frosted) than I thought i would have.
TIA,
Jeff
Equipment: Lee bottom pour and WW ingots. Lee dual cavity .41 and Saeco 4 cavity .357
It went very well with good bullets after about the second pour.
I didn't have problems with wrinkled bullets at first because I had the lead and the mold too hot. I was getting frosting. I dialed down the temp and then started some getting filling problems.
Questions:
Does it matter how far the top of the mold is from the spout?
How fast should the lead flow, and does this have an effect on mold filling? It seemed that I was pouring too fast (for me) because sometimes the lead would overflow and block the next cavity. I slowed the flow down to the point that I got a sprue about the size of a shirt button on top of each cavity. How much sprue should I have?
In a multicavity mold do you start and stop the pour for each cavity or just keep it open and pull the mold along?
I was fairly pleased - I got a higher # of usable bullets (but frosted) than I thought i would have.
TIA,
Jeff