New to me mould . NEI .

[RBHarter]

After a couple of false starts , I got it yesterday .
Opportunity allowed me to cast a pile of bullets today . The first cycle with the new to me NEI 225-451 BB was a bust . It had something black in it I assumed was a release agent of one sort of another. It held something or other and the bands wouldn't fill for beans . I ran out 175 or so 452-255s and scrubbed out the NEI while the pot recovered . Looks like it was just dry graphite.
Back at the pot I ran another bunch of the 255s , reloaded the pot again and preheated the NEI again. Much better . I'm not crazy about the RN on the SWC it does have a heavy top drive band on it .

It casts WW at .452+ , it's over but doesn't more than touch maybe the .453 H&I , at 231 gr .

It still looks pretty black but it's clean now . Seen here with the H&G #130 196 gr and NOE version 454424 @ 250 gr .


I needed 400 452-255s and 100 458193s so I didn't cast many only about 30 .

 

[Glaciers]

Walt used to offer liquid graphite with his molds. Sounds like someone got overly enthusiastic with it. Good for the plate and pins

 

[fiver]

he did and i swear some guys just dunked the whole mold in a bucket of the stuff.
it's slippery stuff too.

 

[Bret4207]

I've got gun mags and books going back into the late 1800's. People have ALWAYS been looking for a "magic pill" to make bullets release! I think "Lee-menting" and a hot mould are the best answers I've seen after looking at over 100 years of peoples efforts. They were "Lee-menting" back in the 1910's too, they just didn't call it that!

 

[RBHarter]

Sounds like Champion aviation sparkplug anti seize .

The plate was a little gritty .
I was able to use a tool I tried several times without success due to heat , cold , sweat etc , with what seems to have been success. I used the kevlar cut protection gloves . I don't know how that will work with the 4,5,8 cavity moulds but I was satisfied with using them on the 1,2,&6 cavity. These have a high temperature rubber palm and are sort of fitting. I hate gloves that take away all of the feel of require exaggerated motion . These aren't perfect but they do keep the hot off my hands and allow me to run the moulds without a whacker even to roll out a sticky cavity (Lee not the NEI) .

I might cast something more today .
Might give the NEI another bath and run some more of those and some 45 500s .

 

[RBHarter]

The relationship between the sticky cavities and production is where I decide if it's worth it to mess with it .