Blammer
06-01-2010, 11:22 AM
Here is a consolidated report on the NOE mould I bought.
It's an RG2. I put the HP pins in it, cleaned it with some degreaser and scrubbed it lightly with a toothbrush then washed it off with hot water. (per degreaser instructions)
Heated up the pot and the mould and commenced to casting with it.
I found that if I have the mould open, then turn it so the spue plate is on the top then close it, then close the sprue plate I get great boolits that drop out easily when it's opened.
I closed the mould with the sprue on the bottom and the pins 'hung' down just a wee bit more and that little bit more made it difficult for the boolits to drop off of the pins.
After figuring this out, I proceeded to cast up 450 GOOD boolits! It rocked!
I cast a few first then picked them up with a pliers and dropped them into a bottle of water to cool them off. I then took the bottle and boolits outside, dumped them out and had some cool boolits I could measure. They both measured (one from each cavity) .453 by MAYBE .4535 if that. They were very good! Weighted 185gr using my WW alloy.
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g81/blammer8mm/Cast%20boolits/45ACP/DSCN8022.jpg
Here is all 450 of them.
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g81/blammer8mm/Cast%20boolits/45ACP/DSCN8024.jpg
I loaded up about 5 with some WW231.
I shot 3 for function, worked beautifully, they fed like they had eyes. :)
Now the fun part!
I set up 3, 1 gallon milk jugs of water about 10 feet away and shot a boolit into them. (yea got a bit wet. :) )
My kimber is an Ultra Carry with the 3" brl.
Recovered the below boolit in the second milk jug. First was split open pretty good and the second one had a big dent in the back.
Naw, I'm not interested in making my boolits mushroom nicely. They work fine for me.
Did I mention that the HP is bigger than the Speer flying ashtray? :D
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g81/blammer8mm/Cast%20boolits/45ACP/DSCN8033.jpg
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g81/blammer8mm/Cast%20boolits/45ACP/DSCN8032.jpg
It's an RG2. I put the HP pins in it, cleaned it with some degreaser and scrubbed it lightly with a toothbrush then washed it off with hot water. (per degreaser instructions)
Heated up the pot and the mould and commenced to casting with it.
I found that if I have the mould open, then turn it so the spue plate is on the top then close it, then close the sprue plate I get great boolits that drop out easily when it's opened.
I closed the mould with the sprue on the bottom and the pins 'hung' down just a wee bit more and that little bit more made it difficult for the boolits to drop off of the pins.
After figuring this out, I proceeded to cast up 450 GOOD boolits! It rocked!
I cast a few first then picked them up with a pliers and dropped them into a bottle of water to cool them off. I then took the bottle and boolits outside, dumped them out and had some cool boolits I could measure. They both measured (one from each cavity) .453 by MAYBE .4535 if that. They were very good! Weighted 185gr using my WW alloy.
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g81/blammer8mm/Cast%20boolits/45ACP/DSCN8022.jpg
Here is all 450 of them.
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g81/blammer8mm/Cast%20boolits/45ACP/DSCN8024.jpg
I loaded up about 5 with some WW231.
I shot 3 for function, worked beautifully, they fed like they had eyes. :)
Now the fun part!
I set up 3, 1 gallon milk jugs of water about 10 feet away and shot a boolit into them. (yea got a bit wet. :) )
My kimber is an Ultra Carry with the 3" brl.
Recovered the below boolit in the second milk jug. First was split open pretty good and the second one had a big dent in the back.
Naw, I'm not interested in making my boolits mushroom nicely. They work fine for me.
Did I mention that the HP is bigger than the Speer flying ashtray? :D
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g81/blammer8mm/Cast%20boolits/45ACP/DSCN8033.jpg
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g81/blammer8mm/Cast%20boolits/45ACP/DSCN8032.jpg