Well it’s middle of winter with a global drizzling rain and a mere 21.6 *C
I though since I’m miserable I may as cast some bullets and organise my moulds.
I’ve got into a groove of casting 308403 bullets and 0.310 cadet bullets which I use as cast and hand lube and load when at the bench shooting.
Thought I’d try the ness safety bullet mould as it has been a challenge.
It has proven to be a challenge with the big pins.
The penta and small hollow point no issues.
Well I took my best-est straight edge I could find and used my finest emery paper about 1500 grit.
Chucked them up and polished the tapered pins and just broke the nose point a tad.
Ran the back of the pins in the mould halves and used my diamond hone to take off any abnormalities.
Heat blued the pins in some used motor oil
Took my time getting any tinsy winsy ,nick ,burr, edge , I could feel or see as I assembled it.
Heated up the pot and mould and went for it.
Was doing well.
Probably 15 casts in and I had a sticky bullet.
Carefully plucked it out of the open mould with mosquito forceps.
This time I put a drop of spruce plate lube in the cavity of the bullet and then reinserted it onto the pin and rotated worked it a bit.
Seemed to fling off bullets for a while and then had to re -apply more lube.
Mould got up to a Temp and my cadence must have been right as it started to work ; well like a normal mould.
Then disaster struck.
Who woulda thunk it!
The pin seem to be jammed open and I could get it back into it’s seat.
I gave up and down tools before I did something I would regret.
Heated up another mould and used that for a while till I lost my attention span.
It it appears that the tiniest drop of lead must have splashed up and hit the pin and drawn it into the two pin holes that guide the point form.
After disassembling it and cleaning a small tiny wee strand of lead came out.
It’s back together nicely again for another round.
Bruce 0 mould 10. Ha
So I ended up with probably 50 or 60 bullets to play with.
Never know I may learn to use this mould yet.
Haven’t perfected it yet but getting somewhere with it.
Some how I have lost all my info on this mould and articles from the 50’s-60’s what ever I had in a computer crash and my Google fu seems to be weak as I can’t locate any now.
Anyone care to wizz some of it over the ether to me?
I’d be very grateful if you did.
Anyway take care out there!
Bruce.