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I don't remember, from the other thread, what your mold is made of. I've never had problems with a iron mold but, have fought aluminium and brass, a few times. With alum molds, I found that NEI Mold Prep, usually sloved the problem. It's made of fine graphite, I think. The most trouble that I had was with a NOE, 2 cav, brass mold. I was aniuos to see what the bullets measured so, I cast it w/o doing anything to it, not even taking the oil out of it, figuring to would burn out and be ok. I threw hundreds of bullets back in the pot, with that mold. I put mold prep on it, boiled it, sprayed it with cleaning spray. What I finally did, was start all over. Got the mold prep off with alcohol, I then used my regualar method. I use hot water, with dish soap with Boraxo added, then plain Boraxo. Dried it and cast. It was better, I then heat cycled it on the electric shove, 2 or 3 times and it finally started casting good bullets. I still get about 5 out of 100 that have wrinkles but, I figure that's good with a 2 cav. As JB says, make sure the ladle spout contacts the sprue plate, when casting. You'll keep a better temp in side the mold that way and the pressure it provides, helps fill out. Nothing more frustrating than not getting good bullets!!! Frank
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