Well figured since I dropped so much money on these by accident might as well try and make use of them. Like the looks of this one so figured why not.
At first I tried just pre heating it and seeing if I could just get rid of all the oils with just casing a bunch like some suggested but that didn't seem to work. Then I figured I'd better degrease it but it being a such a nice iorn mold I didn't wanna screw it up so did some reading and a little article from the cast bullets association reccomended bringing a pot of water to a roiling boil , add dawn dishwashing soap then your mold attached to the handles and let it boil for a bit. Well after five minutes I noticed a light layer of red rust forming under water so figured it was good lol. Took it out, washed it in hot tap water whipped it off real good like the instructions said and put it back on the hot plate for 15min. And still all I'm getting is
Ok sooo , every thing I'm reason points to oil still. So then I just dunked it in acetone the scrubbed it with a toothbrush the hot plate again.looked good and had it hot
But still was getting about the same results. Mold was hot as crap. Tinkered with my lead from 700-750. Making sure to flux often when it would start loosing it's shine.Would get frosty bullets that just dropped out but they all had those nasty fissures on one side or another or both...tried pressure casting and that didn't work. Honestly was getting pretty frustrating because I was doig. Everything to the letter I thought. Only thing I don't do was smoke them but the way they just fell out I didn't see the need honestly.
Well finally I thought and figured mabye it was akin to pouring water into a cup. Too much force and you get a splash inside the mold resulting in voids instead of a nice even fill like if you gently tipped a pitcher of water into a glass. Ok so tried lifting the handle less so it was a more gentle stream and stared getting nicer bullets ! Not the perfect flawless glass finish ones I WANT but I mean good enough I guess . Probably casted 150-200 easy for this little batch.
Asked on some of the casting groups on FB and just kept getting told to turn up my alloy mix and get my mold hotter so guess I need a torch or something lol
I also just now noticed I don't have .309,310or 311 bushings for my sizer just 312 313 and 314 nexr order fir NOR i reckon...
Also this haze me looking really really hard at getting a ladle casting set up
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