I just made my best bullets!

[Coltsmoke]

I've had a problem keeping my bullet weights at an acceptable range of weights. Today I took the time to weigh each set of bullets when they dropped. By taking the time to do this it kept my mold from running hotter and hotter. I also set up a clock with a second hand to count off the 10 secs. I let the bullets harden in the mold. I also tool an RCBS dipper and cut the spout off it and welded the hole up. I took two 3/8" nipples and heated them and made a point on them to the right size opening and then welded them to the dipper. Then took a drill bit and stuck in the nipple up to the dipper and drilled the hole. Now I have a dipper to pour each cavity the same at the same time. It works great!

The main thing I found was not to make bullets as fast as I could, it was really getting the heat up. By weighing each set of bullets it let me know where the weight was at and gave me a chance to change my routine to faster if the bullet got heavier, or slow up if the bullet got lighter. I could change the 10 sec. wait in the mold and make it to 5 sec. or I could skip weighing 2 bullets and cast the next 2 and that would bring the mold back up to the right temp. I could also add 5 or 6 secs. before I poured the next 2 and cool the mold down and bring the weight up a little. This is real exciting to a new guy who culled out 50% of the last batch of bullets he made because of weight difference. So get you a digital scale and start weighing.

Veral you should consider adding a dipper with 2 spouts to your product line it works great. I did see another mold maker that makes one for his. I've just bought a Shiloh and will be slugging the chamber tomorrow and sending you another order. Thanks again for a great mold.

[Tommyt]

Nice post,
 but you can not talk of this Homemade 2 spout dipper without Posting up a picture or 2

Tommyt

Veral you should consider a dipper with 2 spouts to your product line it works great.

[Veral]

  Interesting for sure, but I DON'T like pouring with a dipper!  Therefore I can't in good concience sell such a contraption!  I'm joking of coarse in calling it a contraption.  I love injun uity.  It's what made America what it once was and hopefully will be again.  Could even cut down on the chinese garbage train we are being smotherd with.

  Has it occured to you that you could make and sell them as easy as I could?  Need work?  Jump on it!  That's what my last line in the above paragraph is driving at.

[jhalcott]

  I wonder IF all those double cavity molds have the sprue holes the same distance apart! Then I use quite a few 4 and 6 holers. THAT would make the ladle as heavy as the pot! I have a picture of an old cow with 4 teats pumping lead into some molds in my head!  I ladle only those BIG 450 or 500+ grain single cavity molds. I did have a "bottom pour" ladle that worked quite well. I just do NOT know where it went. I could entertain the idea of one of those in two barrels, depending on the cost.

[Veral]

  Every mold maker has a bit different hole spacing, and I believe LBT has the widest, which I set up almost 30 years ago and don't remember exactly, but it's about 9/16 inch.  I did it because that thin web of metal between bullet cavities, which really gets thin on the larger caliber molds, is critical in carrying away heat from bullets each side of it.  Being too thin is the cause of sunken dents in the sides of bullets, which happens most in cast iron molds, because of the low heat conductivity of iron.  Steel blocks are some better, while brass and aluminum will carry heat away fastest. 

  In case you are wondering what that has to do with pouring two bullets at once, absolutely nothing.  I just thought it might be good information for casters to have filed away.