Lap my Lee 10#?

[DaveInFloweryBranchGA]

Looks like you've done a real good job with it and taken it as far as the design will let you. I really like your setup. That extra aluminum there to mount a thermocouple and hold molds?

[Mike W1]

Looks like you've done a real good job with it and taken it as far as the design will let you. I really like your setup. That extra aluminum there to mount a thermocouple and hold molds?

I'm not too confident lapping and bending the tip of the valve rod was all that much of a help to be honest. Seems like one day virtually no drips and next session have some drips. On the other hand it didn't hurt anything. Couple more things I'm going to try yet. In reality the drips are "small" and easily swept off the smooth shelf into the drip catch box.

Do have TC's on both pots. The shelves seem to get the moulds up to temperature quite well using iron moulds. Short of not weighing the initial bullets I can't see that the first bullets out are any different than if I'd used my hot plate to warm them up. But they're iron moulds. The one Lee I bought just to play with definitely requires the hot plate treatment to cast decent bullets.