Have to let all know just got my mold from Tom
in the first three minutes I was castin perfect 358 boolits
rite on the money for dia and weight
thanks for the beautiful brass mold
I'll be back
Have to let all know just got my mold from Tom
in the first three minutes I was castin perfect 358 boolits
rite on the money for dia and weight
thanks for the beautiful brass mold
I'll be back
Well look what just showed up in the mail today, haven’t cast with it yet or done any test firing but it's a coming:
36-cal Hybrid Mold 1 by turbo1889, on Flickr
36-cal Hybrid Mold 2 by turbo1889, on Flickr
Last edited by turbo1889; 10-01-2010 at 02:17 PM.
Tom do you have a store front here in Utah. I live in Millard County Utah. If I made an order is it possible to pick up after the mold is complete?
Garbear
Garbear
I ship my molds for free, so pick-up would cost you gas money. But you can pick up if you'd like. I don't have a store front, just a shop in an industrial park.
Mold casts right on with all diameter dimensions on all the driving bands for all three cavities all within a 0.359” - 0.360” range (I specified 0.359" diameter and his stated tolerances are -0.0000"/+0.0015") with no detectible out of round at all that I could find using a manual micro-meter that reads in 0.0005” increments.
that is a nice tight cut mold. You ain’t going to get that out of a current production Lyman mold !!!
The only negative thing I can say about the mold is that I’m going to need to add a fender washer under the tension washer on the sprue plate hold down bolt since it wanted to ride up on me on a couple sprue cuts and leave a little protruding bump on the base of the boolit where the sprue was cut but that is no big deal.
And here are some pictures:
First Boolits from My 36-cal Hybrid Mold Fresh from the Water Drop Bucket by turbo1889, on Flickr
38-spl Dummy Shell Using Boolit from My 36-cal Hybrid Mold 1 by turbo1889, on Flickr
38-spl Dummy Shell Using Boolit from My 36-cal Hybrid Mold Flanked by Conventional 38-spl. Loads by turbo1889, on Flickr
Not Much Cylinder Capacity Wasted (38-spl Dummy Shell Using Boolits from My 36-cal Hybrid Mold) by turbo1889, on Flickr
Last edited by turbo1889; 10-10-2010 at 12:10 AM. Reason: Reloaded photos to photo server
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