Yance
09-28-2006, 11:17 PM
OK, somebody out there has one of these and knows what it is. I'd sure like to know. At least none of my smarta$$ "friends" are on here so I don't have to read "It's a bullet mould dummy" or the like. <G>
Anyway, this one was in a bunch of casting/loading equipment I bought today including an original SAECO M-24 pot, a little 5 lb (looks to be 5 lb) Potter bottom pour pot (looks like a baby SAECO), a couple of old (orange metal cornered cardboard box) Lyman 4 cav moulds, a 2 cavity Geo, Hensley 200 gr SWC 45 ACP, a Star sizer/luber and a Star Universal loader with three complete toolheads, plus several thousand rounds of .38 and .45 brass, plus some miscellanious brass and bullets.
Anyway, back to the BIG mould. It's a 148 gr button nose wadcutter. 5X2 setup on three blocks that open kinda like a butterfly knife. Those are brass inserts fitted and the cavities are cut into the brass. Vent lines are cut directly from the "corners" and form a crosshatch pattern through the body of the mould. Lotta engineering went into this one. Notice the "cooling fins" at the front of the lower handle in photo #3. There are no numbers or name anywhere on the blocks, and only a tiny stylized "S" with a banner through it in a circle over "Made in USA". The thing weighs over 5 lbs and I can't wait to see just how much heat it puts off when I get it up to casting temp. I can see having both 10 lb pots going, letting one come back up to temp while draining the other.
Enough yapping, here's some pics.
Anyway, this one was in a bunch of casting/loading equipment I bought today including an original SAECO M-24 pot, a little 5 lb (looks to be 5 lb) Potter bottom pour pot (looks like a baby SAECO), a couple of old (orange metal cornered cardboard box) Lyman 4 cav moulds, a 2 cavity Geo, Hensley 200 gr SWC 45 ACP, a Star sizer/luber and a Star Universal loader with three complete toolheads, plus several thousand rounds of .38 and .45 brass, plus some miscellanious brass and bullets.
Anyway, back to the BIG mould. It's a 148 gr button nose wadcutter. 5X2 setup on three blocks that open kinda like a butterfly knife. Those are brass inserts fitted and the cavities are cut into the brass. Vent lines are cut directly from the "corners" and form a crosshatch pattern through the body of the mould. Lotta engineering went into this one. Notice the "cooling fins" at the front of the lower handle in photo #3. There are no numbers or name anywhere on the blocks, and only a tiny stylized "S" with a banner through it in a circle over "Made in USA". The thing weighs over 5 lbs and I can't wait to see just how much heat it puts off when I get it up to casting temp. I can see having both 10 lb pots going, letting one come back up to temp while draining the other.
Enough yapping, here's some pics.