My Lyman 429667 4 cavity moulds arrived yesterday but my Lee pot got delayed until tomorrow. So... being the impatient guy I am, I fired up the gas burner and dutch oven and mixed up a batch of WW and 95/5 solder to give them a run.
I boiled the molds in soapy water then clean water first thing this morning before I went out junkyard diving for more WW. When I got home I sprayed the moulds down with the Frankford Arsenal stuff (didnt know it was BLACK paint in a way). Melted down my muffins and solder and cast up 160 bullets, a few fishing sinkers, and some ingots of my my new mix.
I have about 20% that are a tad grainy or didnt quite fill out at the butt end and looks too rounded for my taste. Other than that I am very pleased at how well my very first try turned out using pot and ladle. Tomorrow when the Lee 4-20 bottom pour comes in, I will be a casting machine.
Gonna give the ingots and “bad” bullets a few days to mature and see how my hardness turns out. I did water quench also since these are going in my Super Redhawk and I would like to see how well they can perform at full magnum loads.
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