I never bothered to measure, I reckon about a tad or a tad and a half. My 6 cavity aluminum Lee molds like to be tilted a little too.
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I never bothered to measure, I reckon about a tad or a tad and a half. My 6 cavity aluminum Lee molds like to be tilted a little too.
prs
Exactly how I proceed. The exception is my Magma caster. It is fixed @ about 3/8" & seems to work fine for the molds I have used.Originally Posted by HammerMTB
Somewhere between 1/2 and 1 inch. Never thought much about it in terms of a numeric value. I just set the mould guide so it's "the right distance", whatever that turns out to be. I had to adjust my mould guide the other day when I went from casting with an RCBS iron mould to a shorter Lee 2-banger aluminum mould. Again, I didn't measure it, I just set it so it looked right, from experience, I guess. Sorry I can't give you a number.
Something else that affects proper pour from a bottom drip pot is the flow rate. If that isn't right, and it varies from mould-to-mould, it won't matter at all what the pour distance is. You can't run a hard stream into a small volume (boolit weight) mould, nor can you run a trickle into a large volume mould and expect to get good results. You'll have to experiment a bit to find the right combination of flow and pour distance. Thinking about it a bit more, I'd say flow rate is more important than pour distance. I seldom change the mould guide height, but I frequently change the pour rate for different boolits.
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Stew
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if you "pressure" pour dont forget to back off and leave some sprue. dont ask how i learned this!
about half an inch and I tip the mold on an angle so the lead "swirls" into the cavity.
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If you're not pressure casting, just remember the longer the length of the stream from the spout to the mould, the more the molten alloy is exposed to atmosphere (leading to more oxidation of the final casting).
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