New Mold maker, anyone give a shot yet?

[white eagle]

Have to let all know just got my mold from Tom
in the first three minutes I was castin perfect 358 boolits
rite on the money for dia and weight
thanks for the beautiful brass mold
I'll be back

[turbo1889]

Well look what just showed up in the mail today, haven’t cast with it yet or done any test firing but it's a coming:


36-cal Hybrid Mold 1 by turbo1889, on Flickr



36-cal Hybrid Mold 2 by turbo1889, on Flickr

[garbear]

Tom do you have a store front here in Utah. I live in Millard County Utah. If I made an order is it possible to pick up after the mold is complete?
Garbear

[TomAM]

I ship my molds for free, so pick-up would cost you gas money. But you can pick up if you'd like. I don't have a store front, just a shop in an industrial park.

[turbo1889]

Mold casts right on with all diameter dimensions on all the driving bands for all three cavities all within a 0.359” - 0.360” range (I specified 0.359" diameter and his stated tolerances are -0.0000"/+0.0015") with no detectible out of round at all that I could find using a manual micro-meter that reads in 0.0005” increments.

that is a nice tight cut mold. You ain’t going to get that out of a current production Lyman mold !!!

The only negative thing I can say about the mold is that I’m going to need to add a fender washer under the tension washer on the sprue plate hold down bolt since it wanted to ride up on me on a couple sprue cuts and leave a little protruding bump on the base of the boolit where the sprue was cut but that is no big deal.

And here are some pictures:


First Boolits from My 36-cal Hybrid Mold Fresh from the Water Drop Bucket by turbo1889, on Flickr


38-spl Dummy Shell Using Boolit from My 36-cal Hybrid Mold 1 by turbo1889, on Flickr


38-spl Dummy Shell Using Boolit from My 36-cal Hybrid Mold Flanked by Conventional 38-spl. Loads by turbo1889, on Flickr


Not Much Cylinder Capacity Wasted (38-spl Dummy Shell Using Boolits from My 36-cal Hybrid Mold) by turbo1889, on Flickr