Don Steele
45 Cal.
I recently acquired a new Lee RB mold. It is labeled.395.
I cast a mess of balls with no issues. When I took the cooled balls to my scale for weight grading, I found them coming in at 90.5 gns in a very tight range(good precision), but not the 92gns I was expecting. Measuring the balls with a decent caliper showed them to be .392 in . Not the .395 I was expecting.
When I ran .392 in. Through the equation to predict the weight, sure enough... 90.5 gns would be the expected wt in pure lead, so I'm satisfied my metal is good.
So, my question is whether anyone else has found this anomaly with Lee products.
Thanks,
Don
I cast a mess of balls with no issues. When I took the cooled balls to my scale for weight grading, I found them coming in at 90.5 gns in a very tight range(good precision), but not the 92gns I was expecting. Measuring the balls with a decent caliper showed them to be .392 in . Not the .395 I was expecting.
When I ran .392 in. Through the equation to predict the weight, sure enough... 90.5 gns would be the expected wt in pure lead, so I'm satisfied my metal is good.
So, my question is whether anyone else has found this anomaly with Lee products.
Thanks,
Don