Last week I got my 23 and 24 Lee Mold. One a 50 mini mold and the other a 35 200 gr rifle boolit mold. I took my carbide scribe and went over all the edges and got my gun cleaner in spray can and sprayed the molds and scrubbed gently with old tooth brush. Fired up the pot and laid the molds face down on edge of pot and when mold was very warm took some Bens Red lube over all the places the instructions point out. Started casting with the 35 mold and nothing went right. Both boolits had horrible wrinkles so I took a QTip dipped in Kroil and swirled the head into each cavity as I normally do in this situation. Did not make differance and in cavity started sticking like a real bugger. Now, I am faced with a decision to swear at the whole mold and post a thread about how stupid Lee 's molds are or take my experience a little further. In the past I found with Lee's molds if you cast fast and get the boolits frosty looking from heat the molds start working like magic. So I start casting as fast as I can and it is not a pretty site until the boolits start looking frosty all of a sudden the wrinkles are gone and the boolits are literally popping out of the cavities as fast as I can open them with no tapping. Again did I expect any thing different to happen? No because all of my Lee molds seemed like they season after you get them frosty hot the first time. I do not have to get the mold hot like that again unless I want frosty looking boolits or some non lead wheel weights got into the melt and then I simply get the pot really hot and cast thru the mess and all turns out back to normal again. I am posting this for the recent casters getting into this fun hobby that when you run into something like this with a aluminum mold don't cuss just turn up the heat. I never returned a Lee mold. Maybe I have some out of round but I am to dumb to know and some need a little help with the pins if you get the mold real hot but all in all I am very happy with Lee products!!