PacMan
10-31-2010, 11:36 AM
I set out yesterday to give a couple of my alm. molds a muchly need cleaning.I give them a good scrubing with acentone and steel wool first of all (not the cavites) and then took them inside and put them in a pan of water with dawn dish soap.Intentions was to heat the water and give the cavites and vent lines a good scrubing with a stiff tooth brush.Set on stove to get hot.
Being older than i prefer i lost track doing somthing else.Directly my wife said that the pot of what ever i had on the stove was about to boil over.Not really thinking much about it i told here to turn it off for me.
After a bit i decided to do the scrub thing and my once shinny mold was a real dark grey color (cavities and all). I thought that wow this is not good.I took the steelwool and cleaner to the outside of the mold and the stain came off but i was worried about the cavites.
Leaving the cavities the dark ugly grey color i fired up the pot heated the mold and was hoping that the stain would come out. Well two hundred bullets later the stain is still there.
Now the good part. This mold had one cavity that was always hard to get to release the bullet without two to three good taps on the handles. Now they both fall out at the same time with one tap 80% of the time.
I have a lee 6 banger that requires a lot of taping/banging to get all of them out so i will try the same thing with it.
Now was the heavy cleaning the cure or the stain caused by boiling in dawn dish soap and water the cure?
More time is needed to tell.
Am i advocating you try this.Of course not.But if you have a mold that you have trouble with and want to try,it may help.
Dwight
Being older than i prefer i lost track doing somthing else.Directly my wife said that the pot of what ever i had on the stove was about to boil over.Not really thinking much about it i told here to turn it off for me.
After a bit i decided to do the scrub thing and my once shinny mold was a real dark grey color (cavities and all). I thought that wow this is not good.I took the steelwool and cleaner to the outside of the mold and the stain came off but i was worried about the cavites.
Leaving the cavities the dark ugly grey color i fired up the pot heated the mold and was hoping that the stain would come out. Well two hundred bullets later the stain is still there.
Now the good part. This mold had one cavity that was always hard to get to release the bullet without two to three good taps on the handles. Now they both fall out at the same time with one tap 80% of the time.
I have a lee 6 banger that requires a lot of taping/banging to get all of them out so i will try the same thing with it.
Now was the heavy cleaning the cure or the stain caused by boiling in dawn dish soap and water the cure?
More time is needed to tell.
Am i advocating you try this.Of course not.But if you have a mold that you have trouble with and want to try,it may help.
Dwight