RugerFan
03-05-2006, 11:22 PM
I was reading a book I have (Cast Bullets and Silhouettes by Carlton Shy, Jr.) and came across an interesting tip entitled “Making a Difficult Mould Work”. I hadn’t heard of this method before, so I thought I’d pass it along:
“Every once in a while you get a mould that regardless of what you do will not produce decent bullets. This is the mould where the base won’t fill out, or the nose is goofed up, or some other minor trouble occurs all the time. So you have tried everything – recleaning, all degrees of heat for your casting metal, lightly smoked the mould blocks. When all else failed, get the molds warm –not hot, just warm. Of course they should be clean and dry. Take a cotton tipped swab and using touch-up blue, like in bluing a gun, and blue the interior of the moulds. Many a mould has been saved by this trick. Don’t ask why it works, nobody seems to have a reasonable answer, but it does work over 90% of the time.”
“Every once in a while you get a mould that regardless of what you do will not produce decent bullets. This is the mould where the base won’t fill out, or the nose is goofed up, or some other minor trouble occurs all the time. So you have tried everything – recleaning, all degrees of heat for your casting metal, lightly smoked the mould blocks. When all else failed, get the molds warm –not hot, just warm. Of course they should be clean and dry. Take a cotton tipped swab and using touch-up blue, like in bluing a gun, and blue the interior of the moulds. Many a mould has been saved by this trick. Don’t ask why it works, nobody seems to have a reasonable answer, but it does work over 90% of the time.”