New Guy With Pouring Questions

[Kasilofchrisn]

Based on your pics a little drop out spray would help.
Warming your mold a little hotter and prewarming your hooks should also help solve your issues.

[Lamar]

If your pouring soft lead then you have to have something blocking the flow. Try emptying all your lead and clean out the spout. I pour about 100 of them a season and have very few issues with this mold. I just poured some with less then a 1/4 pot and only shoot one empty to warm the mold up a bit. Make sure when pouring you lift up fast and drop fast. And put your mold all the way up to the spout. If your using soft lead and the flow is fast then you should have no problem making these jigs.

[ctom]

Maybe try changing the angle that you hold the mold while filling. Maybe try tipping the mold slightly forward so the lead enters a little off-side. I have a mold that the cavities are slightly angled and will fill weird unless I intentionally soft-set the filling angle. What your pictures are showing is usually a quick fix once the problem is discovered.

[efishnc]

Warming your mold a little hotter and prewarming your hooks should also help solve your issues.

In my history of lead pouring, these two were probably the most significant in consistently getting good casts.  (FYI:I don't soot or spray my molds.)

[Cannibul]

Best move I ever made was getting rid of my newer Lee pots and stepping up to a RCBS Pro-Melt.

Much better lead flow, doesn't leak, stainless steel pot lining doesn't rust, actual temperature control.  I could go on but the RCBS has been a life saver.  Even my molds that suggest ladle pouring are working great with the RCBS due to the high flow rate you can get with the pot.

I even managed to cast the **** Bat jigs with it.  Never could get them to pour consistently with the Lee pot.  Yesterday I did a batch of 3 ounce round ball jigs that came out perfect.

[Bucko]

I'm starting to get fed up with my lee pots and thought about an rcbs.  When you pour those big 3 ounce jigs is it a smooth casting or is it rippled?

[Cannibul]

With a hot mold and hot lead they come out smooth as a babies butt.

[Jerry V]

The maximum flow rate on the RCBS furnace is CONSIDERABLY higher than a couple of Lee pots put together. 

[Bucko]

The maximum flow rate on the RCBS furnace is CONSIDERABLY higher than a couple of Lee pots put together. 

Have always wanted one.  Price steered me away though.  I pour a lot of big sinkers, 3 to 6 ounces, and my pro 4 leaves ripples most of the time.  They don't bother me but a clean cast looks better on the store rack.  May have to give this another thought.  Already have orders for almost 100 pounds of them. 

[Bucko]

Do they have any leak issues out any other issues a guy should know about?

[Denny Welch]

I've had the RCBS for a few years and I swear by it.  It's a quality machine that you're not going to have issues with.  Like the Timex, it just keeps on tickin', pour after pour after pour.  If you plan on pouring a lot over the next fifty years or so the RCBS is for you.

[Kasilofchrisn]

Have always wanted one.  Price steered me away though.  I pour a lot of big sinkers, 3 to 6 ounces, and my pro 4 leaves ripples most of the time.  They don't bother me but a clean cast looks better on the store rack.  May have to give this another thought.  Already have orders for almost 100 pounds of them.

For jigs and sinkers over 3 ounces ladle pouring is the way to go.
I make sinkers up to 5# and jigs to 48 ounces. As well as downrigger weights.
Ladle pouring from a pot is the way to go.