Hi Guys
I'm casting my own RBs with a LEE mold, but every single one of them is wrinkled, though it has a perfect round shape. Now this was only the 4th time that I cast with the Lee mold and dont know if I should cast some more before it start to drop nice balls.
No, after I cleaned the blocks with acetone, I heated up the mold and lubed the V-blocks with SPG Bullet lube (the mold was so hot that when something wet or damp touched it, it sizzled and the lead took about 2-3 seconds to set). I made sure that the face of the blocks are always clean of oil and other stuff. But still the balls get wrinkled.
One interesting thing is that when I hit open the spru-plate, it is as if the ball "moves" inside the mold because when I examine the bullets it has 2 "flat areas" and not one.
This is after I fluxed the lead and also, I use pure soft lead.
I'm out of ideas :surrender:
Any suggestions?
I'm casting my own RBs with a LEE mold, but every single one of them is wrinkled, though it has a perfect round shape. Now this was only the 4th time that I cast with the Lee mold and dont know if I should cast some more before it start to drop nice balls.
No, after I cleaned the blocks with acetone, I heated up the mold and lubed the V-blocks with SPG Bullet lube (the mold was so hot that when something wet or damp touched it, it sizzled and the lead took about 2-3 seconds to set). I made sure that the face of the blocks are always clean of oil and other stuff. But still the balls get wrinkled.
One interesting thing is that when I hit open the spru-plate, it is as if the ball "moves" inside the mold because when I examine the bullets it has 2 "flat areas" and not one.
This is after I fluxed the lead and also, I use pure soft lead.
I'm out of ideas :surrender:
Any suggestions?