Lee 6 Cavity Mold Fix Needed

[cabezaverde]

Raining today.

Started casting with one of my Lee 6 cavity molds. After about an hour, one of the guide pins fell out.

Any fix or a trip back to Lee?

[briang]

Just guessing here, maybe some high temp loctite. It would probably be a temporary fix though.

[462]

I don't have a Lee 6-cavity, but is it possible to drill and tap and install an 8X32 set screw, at a right angle to the pin?

[mtgrs737]

See if you can stake it in, if not then maybe I would send it back to Lee so that they can be aware of the problem.

[cabezaverde]

I put Loctitie on it. We will see how that holds up.

[Springfield]

Loctite won't work at that temperature. I just push mine in just a bit and stake them all before I even use them the first time. Most all of them loosen with use, some sooner than others.

[runfiverun]

some judicious use of j.b. weld in a roughed up area could well fix it.

[imashooter2]

When it happened to me, I stippled the pin that would sit inside the block with a center punch leaving ~.1 inch on the end clean to aid in starting it back in the hole straight. Then I pressed the pin back into the block with a bench vise. Many thousands cast since with no further issue.