This is officialy my second week of casting. I started last week with a little lee furnace, lee molds and a table spoon and I was getting great looking boolits at a resonable pace. It was a pain trying to pour lead from a spoon into that tiny hole. I went to the store today to get a real ladel and ended up buying a bottom pour furnace for like $20 more than the ladle. It was way faster and didnt get lead everywhere like my shoestring budget method, but I cant seem to get something going right. I had way more rejects than using the dipper method. Besides that, now I'm having a problem I have never seen before. I'm not sure how to discribe it, but the picture is below. My molds were clean and everything was up to temperature. Ideas? Bad batch of lead? What is the proper bottom pour method? I thought this was supposed to be easier than dipping?!?
Thanks,
Jason