Two brand new molds in my inventory, a NOE 311-115 and a Lee TL356-124-2R 6 banger. Sprayed both with carb cleaner then took the hot water, dishsoap and a tooth brush to them. So far I dont think Ive got the NOE up to casting temp yet....still dropping wrinkled boolits, cant open the sprue by hand...time to pull out the hot plate.
The Lee 6 banger is a dream (for me that is). I figured a 6 banger would be a pain for a novice caster...Once I got the feel of the bottom drip pot filling the mold, and got the mold up to temp, she started dropping boolits faster than anything and that cam makes cutting the sprue a breeze...Im hooked.
So far all the boolits Ive made have ended up back in the pot...just casting to get the feel of it and heat and cool both molds as per the NOE instructions. After this I will be back out there for the third run...
Hopefully I will have a nice shiny pile of 30 Carbine and 9mm boolits by the end of the night...for the small boolits, time to give up on the 2 bangers for me.