Palmer 553 Mold

[ScottV]

I saw where Stump Hunter was talking about his Palmer 552 mold, well my wife bought me a 553 mold at a flea market for a quarter. After using Do-It molds, I'm wondering if a quarter was too much. Lol I had to get out the Dremell to modify it to accept a #2 sickle. It still takes a lot of filing to clean up the heads.

 

[Fatman]

Hey for a quarter, you got some older style heads!!!! You can always sit in front of the tube and trim ain't all that bad!!!!

 

[LedHed]

Those ain't too bad - you might try re-surfacing the mold and maybe polish the cavities

 

[redman]

IF the mold were mine I would resurface the face and redrill the hinge like Stump did. For a quarter what do you have to lose. There is at lease a quarters worth of scrap metal in that mold. And more that $10 worth of fun in making a old mold usable.


Redman

 

[ScottV]

Yea I felt like I was going back in time when I poured those heads. Lol

 

[Fatman]

My sinker mold is a model 101 - 4 sizes of bank sinkers and I have the one for flat sinkers also I'll post some pics tonight.

 

[CrappieHappy]

I expected to see worse....

 

[StumpHunter]

Those will be a little work to get sides even but not a bad price at all!

 

[Fatman]

Here's my Palmer 201 Flat Sinker Mold and 101 Bank Sinker Mold

The 201 flat sinker you have to trim some the 101 Bank Sinker usually pours really good

 

[ScottV]

Those molds look pretty good Fatman.