Quote Originally Posted by bangerjim View Post
You said it took you 20 pours to start getting usable boolits? Try pre-heating your mold(s) on an electric hotplate! No need wasting time using molten lead and remelting it. Sit your mold on the plate when you turn your pot on and by the time your are cooking soup, your molt will be hot.

Using this method, I usually drop perfect boolits on the 1st pour. Takes some of the frustration out of casting.

Give it a try.....and welcome to the madness!

bangerjim
I did. I have a hot plate (griddle) that I use for preheating ingots and molds. Im pretty sure the issue was the temperature of the pot. Pretty sure my Lyman thermometer is off.