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Offline Leadlum

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Cleaning bullet molds
« on: April 14, 2005, 02:46:35 PM »
How do you clean the lead deposits from your bullet molds?
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Cleaning bullet molds
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2005, 04:48:06 PM »
Carefully, With a light touch and a soft brush or carpenters pencil. I've only cleaned one that was galled totally from being in a hurry. I removed the sprue plate and put the mold in a pot of metal ready to cast. (750 degrees this time) When it came up to tempature all the metal brushed off easily. I clean molds when they're hot; not cold. Just my ideas; hope it helps

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« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2005, 06:01:52 PM »
Plumbers torch.  I use it all the time.
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