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| I was browsing around reading..as I'm getting back into casting.. and was wondering. Why a 1 or 2 cavity to start with? I know when I moved to a 4 cavity mold I found it much easier to keep the mold at the proper tempurature... an occasionaly 'swing around while open' to cool it down and all's well. I suppose for a beginner it might be frustrating getting a few bad bullets out of it until the temp is up... | |
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| A single cavity mould is lighter. You can work it easier and simplier. It's easier to get the hang of because it's simply easier to use. I use 4 cavity moulds and it's easy to get the bullets too hot if you rush. Most the custom casters I know use several 4 cavity moulds at the same time because of the cooling time required. Even with two cavity moulds I have to run at least 3 of them to keep from killing time waiting for them to cool when cast 44 and 45 caliber bullets. There's nothing wrong with 4, 6, and 8 cavity moulds but they're for the expert, not the beginner. This is only my opinion but others in my field will supply the same advice. | |
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Good thing I've been casting since I was a kid  .I don't think I'll have any problems cooling down a 4 cav, probably no problems cooling 6 or 8 either. It gets really cold here in the winter.. I think keeping things warm may be a problem. | |
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| I realize this reply is to an old message, but I just had to second the notion that your wife must be more understanding than mine. I also started out casting on the kitchen stove. Lasted about 15 minutes before my wife through a whole hearted fit! 'Course she also ordered me a Lyman electric furnace to get me outside the next week, so it wasn't a total loss. BD | |
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| I built a small block Chevy engine in the living room a few years ago, I think that was about as far as I could push my wife (and that's pretty dang far). Something as smokey and smelly as casting would never fly inside the house! | |
John We’ll raise up our glasses against evil forces, singing; whiskey for my men, beer for my horses Molon Labe! | |
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| This is a little off the subject, but I too built an engine in the living room floor last year, only it was a 40hp Volkswagen engine. That was also just about as much as my wife was willing to put up with. Helps that it was for her car, but not much. BD | |
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| I´m using Lee´s bottom pour 20 Pounds melter and Lee´s 6-cavity mould, it works great for me. The lead is wheel-weights, exept for 454 when i use 10,75 % antimony. | |
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| Sounds like a good set up. Which bullet you making? | |
Creeker Joshua 1:9 | |
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| Re 1-2 vs multi cavity moulds, the primary benefit of the 1 or 2 cavity mould has to do with VERY LARGE bullets, something pistol shooters do not USUALLY deal with. It is difficult if not impossible to keep a multi-cavity mould at the proper temp. when casting 500-600+ grain bullets. | |
Does anyone know where the love of God goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours? | |
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| Max, if i read this correct, you are casting 454 Casull bullets, here is a loadingdata from Sweden: 33gr of Norma 123 under a 260 gr bullet with 10,75 %of antimony. This will make you whack the cases from the cylinder!  | |
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| Gentlemen, Our wives are an integral part of our lives. That being said though, there are times when we have to compare wits with them to be able to dabble in rocket science without interference or verbal attack. Step#1 - Master Plan Figure out what it is that you really want to do & how you want it done, i.e.; special casting room w/industrial fan exhaust system similar to a biochem lab. Cost of the project to you does have it's limits, but they are far more flexible than your wife's. Convince yourself that it is because your wife is ignorant of the facts and that you need to bring her onboard, mentally. (Really, most of them are snug with the cash, and you need to show them how much destruction you can wreak on the house before they loosen the purse strings.) Step#2 - Motivational Stage Be bold.....this is the section where false ignorance reigns supreme. Bring the pot & crappy rusty wheelweights right in the kitchen and plop them on the stove, acting all the time like you have the approval of congress. Yes, I know....the highlight of the whole event is when you carve off that nice hunk of 50/50 alox, and.....the Oliver Stone moment(slow motion as it's falling towards the melt) poooooffff! Followed by fireworks from your wife as the exhaust fan over the stove tries, in vain, to suck out the billows of stenchy wretchedness, all the while your stirring the whole thing together telling your wife to wait because you don't want to screw up the flux. Stage 3 - Financial Planning (aka-Blackmail) Stage This is the area where you need to get it all, or none. If you miss something at this stage, you'll never get it again because the effect will be lost and your negotiating power will be nill. The wife will be in shock and willing to sign anywhere, but although she is vulnerable, be advised.....she could awaken from this state if you hit her with something so outrageous as to disturb this mental hypnotic condition. Stage 4 - Construction Get at this immediately....theres no time to waste here....... It's usually within this stage that your wife starts to periodically awaken from her shock and will say things like, "I never agreed to that", or "How much is this thing going to cost". If they start to exhibit these signs of recovering, you need to hit them with "memories of the other night at the stove"......remember dear???? They'll regress back to their former state, just like being hit with a tranquilizer gun..... Stage 5 - Life is good.......wife is good ! Bob PS-John, a slightly modified version of this could get you a garage for that SBC.....LOL! | |
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| Bob, truly you are wise beyond your years. I was fortunate enough to have established my eccentricities, bad habits and countless hobbies and interests before I met my wife, and she somehow came to accept them as part of me. But I never won the battle over the kitchen, or for that matter, most of the rest of the house. HOWEVER, I did manage to claim the garage as my own. And the only time it sees a car in it is when I need to work on one. Otherwise it is home to my workshop, bullet casting center and social haven for those friends who were unable to attain a similar situation in there own garage. This allows for the creative process to take place without interruption due to complaints of noise, bad odors or the swilling of cereal malt beverages. As for bullet casting....just another great part of the whole shooting sport...as important to me as reloading. For ventilation I just open the garage doors, have a large fan that blows air out of the room and other fans that direct the airflow away from me and towards the exhaust fan...works pretty well. I started out casting round balls for muzzleloaders with a small cast iron pot and ladle over a Coleman stove, now I use a couple of Lee bottom pour furnaces. Most of my molds are from Lee as well, they're much cheaper and cast good bullets. I also have access to a friends collection of various Lyman molds. I work for a printing shop that has, over the years, did away with their hot type equipment, and in the process I ended up with many hundreds of pounds of linotype, which I mix 50-50 with pure lead...makes for nice bullets. Anyway, bullet casting is a great way to spend time...but it's alot more fun if you have your own "domain" in which to do it! | |
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| Flint,want to sell some of that printing lead? Bosse. | |
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