I just read the article by Ken Mollohan in the FOULING SHOT about all the great properties of ATF. I have known about a lot of them for a long time although I never have used it much around guns and especially molds. So I was getting ready to cast some bullets up and decided to try out some of Kens ideas.
Wow! The stuff does work very well. I had been using a product from NOE molds called Bull Plate for a sprue plate lube and it does work very well but you best not get any in the mold cavities. It takes a long time to get it out even if you get too much on the sprue plate it will leave bubbles in the top of the casting for several bullets. Not the ATF. After a bit this mold has one cavity that likes to hang up on the right side. So when I reached that point I got brave and placed a drop of ATF on a q-tip and rubbed a very small amount in the offending cavity. The first bullet just dropped out great but did not fill out completely. Very minor and a lot of people would probably not even notice. The next 50 or so were perfect looking at them, I haven't put them on a scale yet.
Has anyone else tried this stuff? I'll be exploring more uses for the ATF as time goes on.
Thanks Ken!
Richard