Been at this for almost a month now and have had about 6 or 7 sessions at the pot, that's including rendering down 5 gal of wheel weights.
Equipment I'm using is very basic get started cheap stuff which consists of a 1500watt 2 burner electric hot plate and a 5.5" SS sauce pan with a lid. The alloy is straight COWW and the mold is a Lee 356-102-R1 aluminum 2 cavity mold. Dipping with a Lyman ladle.
It has been a steady improvement and learning curve and have had a lot of great advice from the folks over at Cast Boolits.
Yesterday I was able to drop 260 good keeper bullets before I got to the point tat I either had to add lead or quit. I decided to quit as I was getting tired. I am truly enjoying this so far and believe I will continue with this.
Weather is supposed to take a turn for the worst tomorrow so I'm going to go make one more run before it hits and I get shut down for awhile.
Equipment I'm using is very basic get started cheap stuff which consists of a 1500watt 2 burner electric hot plate and a 5.5" SS sauce pan with a lid. The alloy is straight COWW and the mold is a Lee 356-102-R1 aluminum 2 cavity mold. Dipping with a Lyman ladle.
It has been a steady improvement and learning curve and have had a lot of great advice from the folks over at Cast Boolits.
Yesterday I was able to drop 260 good keeper bullets before I got to the point tat I either had to add lead or quit. I decided to quit as I was getting tired. I am truly enjoying this so far and believe I will continue with this.
Weather is supposed to take a turn for the worst tomorrow so I'm going to go make one more run before it hits and I get shut down for awhile.