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rkaires Frequent Elocutionist Offline No Stronger Bond Posts: 1674 Location: Dingmans Ferry, PA Joined: Oct 26^th, 2012	Re: What about a M C, LEMORE bullet mold? Reply #30 - Mar 10^th, 2022 at 3:54am	Print Post
	Please add me to the list. Bob

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ballardhepburnmich ASSRA Board Member Offline Posts: 598 Location: Scotts,mi. Joined: May 20^th, 2015	Re: What about a M C, LEMORE bullet mold? Reply #31 - Mar 10^th, 2022 at 4:28am	Print Post
	Rodney, sounds like you're going to be in the mold business. Lee Gibbs Pres.ASSRA


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Dusty Rhodes Full Member Offline Posts: 175 Joined: Apr 28^th, 2016	Re: What about a M C, LEMORE bullet mold? Reply #32 - Mar 10^th, 2022 at 5:02am	Print Post
	This looks like a good thing but I'm not understanding how it could be twice as fast to use than the standard design mold. There's not a lot of 'meat' around the cavity, so it would be prone to getting hot, would it not ?? What if the bullet sticks a little ?? Not knocking the idea, just asking the question.


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rodneys Oldtimer Offline Posts: 709 Location: Central Oklahoma Joined: Mar 2^nd, 2015	Re: What about a M C, LEMORE bullet mold? Reply #33 - Mar 10^th, 2022 at 9:40am	Print Post
	Dusty, If you’ll notice in the pictures there is a brass plug at the bottom of the mold it has a small tit that sticks up in the bullet and It is actually slightly loose held in by one screw and when you open all the way it hits the head of the screw and pull the bullet out of whichever side it’s in. After automatically cutting the sprue off. Regarding the heat you would lower the temperature of your lead pot. My experience has been that you can easily double your rate of casting bullets. Of course the larger the bullet the more cooling time is required. I had made a 40 and a 45 caliber insert for mine. They take a little longer to cool so I run a lower temperature to keep the rate up also use a small fan to cool the mold. Those of you that are interested send me your email and I’ll put you on the list. It is going to take a while.


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kensmachine Oldtimer Offline Posts: 574 Joined: Nov 21^st, 2012	Re: What about a M C, LEMORE bullet mold? Reply #34 - Mar 10^th, 2022 at 10:33pm	Print Post
	Rodney are they going to be castings or machined and assembled Ken


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rodneys Oldtimer Offline Posts: 709 Location: Central Oklahoma Joined: Mar 2^nd, 2015	Re: What about a M C, LEMORE bullet mold? Reply #35 - Mar 10^th, 2022 at 11:45pm	Print Post
	They will be finished. It would I think be a bit of a challenge for someone without having one to go by.


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kensmachine Oldtimer Offline Posts: 574 Joined: Nov 21^st, 2012	Re: What about a M C, LEMORE bullet mold? Reply #36 - Mar 11^th, 2022 at 1:04am	Print Post
	Price ?


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rodneys Oldtimer Offline Posts: 709 Location: Central Oklahoma Joined: Mar 2^nd, 2015	Re: What about a M C, LEMORE bullet mold? Reply #37 - Mar 11^th, 2022 at 8:52am	Print Post
	It’s not been been calculated. Will have to prototype one to see.


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mikeyfirelock Participating Member Offline Posts: 48 Location: NW Indiana Joined: Sep 14^th, 2016	Re: What about a M C, LEMORE bullet mold? Reply #38 - Mar 11^th, 2022 at 4:41pm	Print Post
	I have McLemore / Pope mold #002, and can attest to the quality and truth of the claims we have read in this thread. If the new mold matches Jim’s quality and workmanship it will be well worth practically any price. Once you have used it, and become accustomed to it, you can cast fine bullets faster than any other mold.

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JLouis Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 10625 Joined: Apr 8^th, 2009	Re: What about a M C, LEMORE bullet mold? Reply #39 - Mar 11^th, 2022 at 5:39pm	Print Post
	Amazing how much unknown history to most of us. Also including myself is still coming to the surface today. Even though it goes beyond Pope's and some of the older old timers time. What those old folks handed down to us still amazes myself.

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bnice Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1964 Location: Iowa Joined: Nov 30^th, 2006	Re: What about a M C, LEMORE bullet mold? Reply #40 - Mar 12^th, 2022 at 7:47pm	Print Post
	Rodney, or anyone else that has used or owns one, have you swapped the mold portion with different cavities and if so how easy of a process is it.


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RSW Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1305 Location: Arizona Joined: Sep 8^th, 2006	Re: What about a M C, LEMORE bullet mold? Reply #41 - Mar 12^th, 2022 at 11:01pm	Print Post
	bnice Bob, if you look at the earlier part of this post it shows the outside of the mold handles. Each cavity is held in by a screw. The original that I had a chance to use for casting bullets only had the one cavity so I never did take it out.

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rodneys Oldtimer Offline Posts: 709 Location: Central Oklahoma Joined: Mar 2^nd, 2015	Re: What about a M C, LEMORE bullet mold? Reply #42 - Mar 13^th, 2022 at 12:03am	Print Post
	Yeah like Randy said one screw on each side. Then if the mold was a different length on top you might have to adjust the height of the cut off plate.


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bnice Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1964 Location: Iowa Joined: Nov 30^th, 2006	Re: What about a M C, LEMORE bullet mold? Reply #43 - Mar 13^th, 2022 at 7:23pm	Print Post
	Thank You, looks easy enough, really surprised there are not more around.


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beltfed Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1827 Location: Central Wi Joined: Dec 20^th, 2007	Re: What about a M C, LEMORE bullet mold? Reply #44 - Mar 13^th, 2022 at 7:46pm	Print Post
	Only 3 so far I.D.ed in this thread. So far we know there were at least 72 made since that serial number is the highest so far. I still wonder if McLemore made them so that there was at least a near degree of interchangeability with Pope's-at least so inserts would fit between them. And,(Rodney please note) I presume it would be wise to make the inserts so the "top end" would be the same length to the groove and the retaining screw holes so a person does not have to adjust the sprue plate height when changing inserts. beltfed/arnie
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