Don2 wrote:MoJo wrote:I don't know about the lead sticking to the outside of the mould blocks. It might work just be careful immersing them into the molten lead. I have gotten to the point that I even do this with my aluminium Lee molds.
By the way, a great way to smoke an aluminum mould is to use an acetylene torch with no oxygen the sooty flame really does the job quickly and efficiently.
Oh man...I thought I was the only insane person here that did that sort of thing.
One day I was getting stuck bullets in my Lee mold, took out a Bic lighter and smoked it. It wasn't working very well so I took it out of my shop and turned on the Acetylene torch and smoked it pretty well.
That did the trick...Been using that method for a while now and it works very good.
Very good tip..I forgot to mention it.
You're on the ball today.
I just happen to think about using the torch one day when cutting some plate I needed.
You know how much they smoke when you light them up with Acetylene.
Don2
Ps...I kinda got into the habit of leaving bullets in all my molds no matter which ones they are.
Plus you always have a few spares around.
My friend used to use paraffin candles to smoke his molds, until he discovered that paraffin smoke has a lot of unburned wax in it, and he was getting cruddy looking bullets.