Snakebites and Mavs are back in stock. . finally.

Dick Dastardly · October 04, 2007, 05:58:00 PM

Hey, the wait has been long, but the Snakebite and Mav Dutchman molds are back in stock now. I just delivered a bunch of 'em. Got more to send.

LEE is now promising deliver in SIX MONTHS for new orders. That's after sittin' on my money for that long interest free. Heck of a deal.

I'm exploring for a new mold maker.

DD-DLoS

Cuts Crooked · October 05, 2007, 04:09:23 PM

YEAH!!!

I got lead settin' around jist a waitin'!

will52100 · October 13, 2007, 11:01:35 PM

Good, I love mine.

Any chance you could get 6 cavity round ball moulds made up? I talked with Lee awhile back and they said they couldn't do it?

I know you've got the small bullet that suposed to take the place of a round ball, but I realy like my round balls, .454 and .380, and Lee's tangent sprue cut off, just hate casting 2 at a time.

Dick Dastardly · October 14, 2007, 08:20:49 PM

LEE lathe bores their molds. This process doesn't lend it's self to making round ball cavities very well. They have to drill a pilot hole before the tool can enter. When they do this it's hard to get the ball to come out absolutely spherical. So, LEE simply doesn't make six cavity round ball molds. But, they do make them in two cavity models. I know cuz I have one. You go figure.

DD-DLoS

will52100 · October 14, 2007, 09:19:00 PM

Well shoot, I though they used a cherry, not a boreing bar. I've seen a couple other companies make 4 cavity round ball moulds but not with the tangent sprue cutoff lee has. Oh well.

Dick Dastardly · October 15, 2007, 08:00:17 AM

If you could get a cherry for the round balls made you could make the molds. LEE will sell blank mold blocks.

DD-DLoS

will52100 · October 15, 2007, 08:31:55 AM

Now that's a though, might need to get three or four extra blanks though, no telling how many I'd screw up!

Cuts Crooked · October 15, 2007, 04:38:21 PM

Fer wat it's werth, I got my Snakebite mold the other day. I've already run a thousand of em. Now I gotta git my brass ready!

Dick Dastardly · October 15, 2007, 06:25:50 PM

"Em bullets do pile up fast Cuts. I like the fact that once I've got a mold runnin' good I don't have to do anything special except keep it dry when I put it away. A good running mold seems to start out good from the start at the next casting session.

Don't rush it, we have all winter to load 'em up now. Reloading season is upon us.

DD-DLoS

Mason Stillwell · October 15, 2007, 07:57:27 PM

Dick did you get my E-Mail

Mason

Dick Dastardly · October 15, 2007, 08:15:26 PM

Nothing today Mason. My email man is slow. I'll watch for it.

Dick

grymster2007 · October 16, 2007, 10:54:21 PM

QuoteWell shoot, I though they used a cherry, not a boreing bar

I don't know much about bullet molds, but a bit about machining. Wonder why they don't employ sinker EDMs for the cavities? More time consuming, but can run un-attended and would produce more accurate spheres with better finishes. Or maybe even mill them with a ballmill. On an accurate, high speed machining center, wouldn't take much time at all and could produce finishes rivaling those of the lathe.

Dick Dastardly · October 17, 2007, 07:19:30 AM

I think LEE is pretty much set on their way of doing stuff and they aren't interested in making any changes. Probably their system allows for the use of less skilled labor or some other bean counter kind of thing.

Yes, there would be other fine ways of making the cavities. There are a lot of mold makers that don't lathe bore. I'm exploring other makers now.

DD-DLoS