mold questions for redman

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[/i]finished up the mold today. I made the shorter alignment pins and tweaked a few things. thanks Led for the compliment!
 

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wanna do some painting!! It's a little cold in the shop though for vinyl paint. another week or two and I should get some warmer days.
 

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today I worked on the mold a little, just polishing it up on the outside just for appearance, and also polished the sprue hole best I could by spinning a wad of steel wool in the hole with a countersink bit. so it is done. I have plenty of size 4 sickles, so may heat the pot up, the pot usually pours better than the ladle I use for test pours. this head makes a size 4 sickle look a little on the small side because it takes up a considerable amount of the hooks shank, but I can see this head and hook combo working for verticle jigging and dipping, maybe a good pitching jig too as it has a little weight for it's size, just a compact package.
 

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Just a suggestion to "polish "a pour hole take a brass rod turn it just a little bigger than a the hole. Polish the brass rod and press it in to the hole. FWIW I have one mold that has a really rough pour hole. It works fine don't think it is as critical as the inside or cavity.

You are doing a good job keep up the good work. I will keep up and chime in when I feel it is nessasary. You are taking off where I left off.

Redman
 

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thanks Redman for the suggestions and compliment!! today I plugged in the lee pot and poured maybe 125 heads in the new mold, it is probably the best pouring mold so far that I have made. every head was a beautiful smooth head with only two partial pours which happened when my spout got gunked up, just took a little allen wrench and pushed it up inside the spout, that got it going again.that lead Happy gave me some time back is beautiful stuff, pours a pretty head.
 

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the other thing about this mold that was so cool was that after pouring a head it separated very easy and the head was easy to extract. thanks again to Redman for showing me how to make a mold like this, it adds so much satisfaction to the jig making thing.
 

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Redear - yeah I have some of the lead from happy and it pours really nice - just like my old lead water pipe stuff. Cant wait to see what you tie up on them.
 

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Doug, I'll clean the sprues up on these heads, and then paint them up. gotta go back to work tommorrow, I had to take three vacation days to go with my other two regular days off because I did something to my back and it took six days to get right, today is the first day that I could straighten up while walking. the guys at the sporting goods store where I hang out didn't cut me any slack either, when I'd come in there all hunched over with a cane. lol
 

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I just had my Doc appt yesterday and I whacked my back again. Not supposed to be doing alot and was out using the snow blower for 2 hours tonight so really sore. The lidocaine patchs work good though. .
 
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