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Poured some bullets
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<blockquote data-quote="Hunter 257W" data-source="post: 5082849" data-attributes="member: 12277"><p>Yeah, but zinc tends to be very light gray in color while pure lead is more of a blue color as were his bullets. Running the pot at a high temp takes a long time to get the mold up to temp, if it ever achieves the temp you need in the molds to get good fill out. In other words if you don't preheat the molds you're going to get the poor fill out he's getting especially with only casting a few dozen bullets. I just don't think zinc is the problem here. Those bullets look like pure soft blue lead to me and pure lead is known to be problematic in filling cavities without adding some tin.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hunter 257W, post: 5082849, member: 12277"] Yeah, but zinc tends to be very light gray in color while pure lead is more of a blue color as were his bullets. Running the pot at a high temp takes a long time to get the mold up to temp, if it ever achieves the temp you need in the molds to get good fill out. In other words if you don't preheat the molds you're going to get the poor fill out he's getting especially with only casting a few dozen bullets. I just don't think zinc is the problem here. Those bullets look like pure soft blue lead to me and pure lead is known to be problematic in filling cavities without adding some tin. [/QUOTE]
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