Good or bad on there brass moulds.

I bought a used NOE .25-100gr. f.p. on another site and quality is excellent.  Never was much of a fan of aluminum moulds but this one has proved to be the most accurate so far in my .25 Ack. Imp. Krag.  Very low rate of rejects in long casting session with most holding +- .0002gr.  Yesterday, I received a used NOE .32-115 pointed.  This is a tapered bullet for breech seat.  dbl. cav. but HEAVY!  not tried out yet... going to get a workout using this one.

I have a brass 376329 PB 2 cavity , very nice mold , both cavities cast well , warms fast , very consistent , they shoot well from a thin side high wall with a 15 twist barrel marked Verl Sigmon . Also when I talked to the owner on the phone he was very courteous and helpful , A positive experience with N.O.E.

I have several aluminum NOE moulds and I agree that the quality is very high.  They cast terrific bullets and they have a wide selection of moulds on their website.

I don't own an NOE brass mold, but I do own a couple brass molds. They cast nicely and bullets drop easily from them.
Unlike aluminum molds, the sprue plates don't gall the top of the molds either.

I have an NOE mold that casts a .322 two diameter Paul Jones bullet, it's an excellent mold, and one of the few I've owned that's centered so that the bullet drops right out. On the down side, it's VERY HEAVY, I had to have a friend surface grind the sprue plate, and I had to develop a method of opening the strange sprue plate when I cast.....other than that it's OK.....

I agree that NOE's molds are a bit heavy in brass but, so are the SAECO molds. NOE's are 1/4 longer than SAECO. PJ molds are just a little shorter than SAECO. All heavier than they need be for single cavity molds. My favorite SC mold size is the Ron Long molds.

To NOE's credit, NOE, specifically made SC molds for this forum because the people here wanted them in SC. The first SC molds that they ever made. He did the SC in their DC mold blocks because it's a major expense to make the smaller blocks for such a extremely, limited market as us.

If you add the weight of the SAECO and DC Lyman handles (same handle), to the mold, it increases the weight, even more. My suggestion is to use the Lee handles with the NOE brass molds, it helps the weight issue and they are what NOE makes their molds to be used with.

BTW, NOE uses STEEL bushings for the pins, in all of their molds.

You need to follow NOE's instructions of what to do with the mold, before casting, too.

Frank

All i can say about the above statement is LOL

Frank