We aren't casting up hundreds of these. 45 bullets because these are what i use. In the springfield and in the thompson. Though you know i hear people having trouble feeding lead bullets and no assumptions but i haven't had any. Difficulty that's all I've shot in it but you know this profile you know. Depends i think a lot on the bullet that you're using this profile is very. Similar to the regular jacketed bullet but this is that li mold 450 to. 230 grain but it is the tumble lube so. It's got those small grooves so i can just tumble they work very well but the. One thing i was gonna mention i have. Been using the lyman lead scooper I've. Been pretty impressed with this see but. It's got the old look there that's got a. Bevel on it and then there's two little. Feet where it'll sit and then it can be. Switched from right to left hand — but. Nice heavy cast and good long handle you. Now you said that lee would and that was pretty pitiful this really works. Well i think i paid like 20 bucks for it. But it saves me a lot of aggravation. Particularly what i like it leaves very little sprue because you can get yo that. Nozzle right in there so you don't waste a lot you don't end. Up filling led all over the top of the mall this works really well very much. Worth in the 20 bucks but that is a. Regular alignment product what i like heavy you keep it right in the pot the cast. Iron is so hot that the lid doesn't tend. To get hard you know otherwise it'll cool down in a little leak inner ones this works much better but I'm. Melting another batch here it'll be the. Third block but they're easy to work. With you know that tumble lube makes them simple.

Léa round ball molds are made from. Aluminum because of the exceptional molding qualities mold cavities are cnc. Machined for unmatched roundness and size control the mold locks featured. Tapered steel pin in cup alignment bushings providing zero clearance parting line lock trochoidal venting is. Precision machined into the mold face and sprue plate mating surface allowing. Easy and complete cavity fill out machine engraved ball diameter is. Machined into the top of the mold block for easy identification handles are included with this mold.

Léa round ball molds are made from. Aluminum because of the exceptional molding qualities mold cavities are cnc. Machined for unmatched roundness and size control the mold blocks featured. Tapered steel pin and cup alignment bushings providing zero clearance parting line lock trochoidal venting is. Precision machined into the mold face and sprue plate mating surface allowing. Easy and complete cavity fill out machine engraved ball diameter is. Machined into the top of the mold block for easy identification handles are included with this mold.

Hello youtube I've been wanting to get. Into bullet casting and as a mechanic i. Have a ready supply of wheel weights. Available that I've been collecting and. I decided that i needed to start off with smelting started off with just. Stuff I'm finding around the shop just. To get started and kind of learned the process took an old automotive air. Conditioning accumulator and cut the bottom out of it use that to melt some. Lead start it off with just melting the. Wheel weights getting the clips off. Getting the dross off the top letting it. Cool quenching it and then dropping it. Out of the basically cauldron that i. That i made that worked okay until about. The third batch i tried to put some more. Lead in idle oh there's different. Temperature what i did wrong i think a. Lot of the dirt and grime and adhesive. Backing from some of the stick on wheel. Weights basically it made it to where this wouldn't drop out anymore no matter what i did i ended up having to hammer it out so i knew that wasn't. Gonna work trying to heat it and cast it. In the same you know container oh and i. Was basically melting this with the oxy acetylene torch that we have at work just for a small batches for test runs. Wide ended up doing next was heating it. Up and then pouring it into a little. Metal basically a tin box that i found. Lying around the shop that wasn't being used anymore that seemed to work okay except i don't. Now if you can notice or not where the hinges on the box where it kind of molded. Itself around those and then it wouldn't. Come out i also had a problem where i. Tried to pour some and the lead was a little too cold and you can see that I'm. Hoping this you know doesn't cause a problem when i go to actually cast bullets with it but i guess you can see what happens when you cast that too low of a temperature the next thing i did i headed over to do. Some research on the internet because things were going as well as I'd like. Came across a site called cast bullets. But the bullets is spelled b oli ts and. Saw what they were using for smelting. Ingot molds basically and i found a nice. One that they were making out of cat out. Of angle iron and i happen to have a piece of that lying around the shop so it came up with this and this was a. Design that there a lot of people are using on there and so basically i just. Copied it and stole it basically i took. The inch and a half angle iron that i had just a scrap piece about four or. Five feet long lying around the shop and cut it off into four inch sections. The important part of this design is. The angle that you cut on the sides you. Have the natural angle from the angle iron but the angle that you cut on the. Sides allows when the lead shrinks that. They'll come right out and release i had. This handle lying around i had a couple of these actually that i didn't know what kind of project i was going to use them for and turned out that worked out pretty good for that and I'll show you why in a minute. Basically i saw people had discussions. About whether they weld them on the inside or the outside i decided to weld. It on the back just because this. Material that i had was a lot thicker than what everybody else is using the. Welds ended up standing up a lot more i. Didn't want to have to go to the trouble to basically dress all these down to the. Ingots from sticking. Because of all the little depressions. That are in all the welds so this was a. Pretty tough stuff it was hard to cut with the chop saw still got some pretty nice square cuts out of it and i basically had the miller. Mattock turned him all the way to six and i still couldn't get a lot of penetration out of it but it worked out really good i heated. Up a nice batch of wheel weights and. Here're the ingots that i got out of. It and they fit real well back in there. So i can show you that just by happy. Accident this handle design worked out. Really well because basically after i poured it they frosted over a. Little bit i couldn't jiggle them anymore i picked it up like this and turned him. Over and an optimal loose and i was ready to go glad to make two more bars. So that was my little project for the. Afternoon since i didn't have much work while i was waiting for parts to show up and just thought you guys might like to. See that if you have any questions about how to make these head over to cast. Bullets forums or you can message me. With some questions on youtube thank you.

Hello everyone today we're going to do a video on the lyman 4500 loop sizer can. Kind of like a how-to slash overview the. Whole thing type of thing so yeah let's. Get started now these are some of the. Things that you'll need to buy that doesn't come with your super sizer right. Here we got a sizing guide this one is a three to three sizing die you can seal. Holes on the longest side where the lube comes in now you can buy these you can. Go in the lyman website you can get them in all sorts of different diameters for. Whatever you need to size or one — sighs. — and yeah that's the die that you need. This here is the top punch this one. Happens to be a number eight top punch and basically what that does is it will. Go on the top of the lube resizer and that's what pushing that's what. Pushing down on your bolt to make it go into the die if you don't have the. Proper top punch it could mar or ruin. Tip your bowl so you want to get the proper top punch now about some of the. Things that comes with your lyman 4500 package you got the little wrench you'll. Use that to take out the locking lug. That holds in your sizing die you got. Those little allen wrench here you'll use that to take out and tighten in your. Top punch make sure that stays in and. You also got your gas checks heater I'll. Show you how to use that in a moment and you use that seed your gas checks and. You also got the heater that comes with. The lyman 4500 and this is what you use. To heat up your loop so it flows the. Route the looper size are easier so now. I'll show you how to insert your sizing guide put that into the loop sizer push. Down in take your locking that. And the tool was going until we find a. Thread there backwards it is you do not. Want to strip this and just go to your. Nice and snug you can take your top. Punch of this start it in the top and i. Got the little screw here and we'll just. Screw that in dull snug and there you go. So now we're going to add our new. Processor sticks bot there we go now. These are here is your bullet lube let's hold it down the middle so it will fit in the piston there so I'm going to. Show you how to put these in there now, so we'll take our wrench we'll switch it to the in bring this all. The way back up I'll show you how this operates in just a moment. Well take our top cover off goodbye. There is the part that pushes down on. The bullet loop which forces it to your die let's take that out got two rings on. It the excess bullet lube on there from. Before so we'll take our new precise. Errs stick i make these myself it's my. Homemade bolt loop i might do a video on how to make these one day so push that. Down in their take that one screw in. Until it catches now put all the way. Back down top cover back on now you go. And tell your boat snug and if you're. Doing it up a hard loop you're going to want to heat your lube first so leave this on for about 10 20 minutes whatever. It takes and it will soften up your loop. Because you don't want to force hard loop through the loop sizer now I'll. Show you guys how the adjustment down here works so if you have taken your. Bullet set in your die and push down. It's going way too far down so now what. We're having this loop coming up or on. The top of the bullet which we do not. Want so we're going to take this let me. Adjust it until you get it right excuse. My dog in the background. And now i think it's getting pretty. Close so I'll check it stuck out some. Lube coming up i haven't don't have too much pressure. There on piston a little bit further yet. Right there i think should be good so. We'll take our bullets push down a. Little pressure on it and now we have a. Perfectly newt bullet so now that we got. It all set up right I'll show you how we. Use it so let's take the bullet on there. Down apply little bit of pressure wasn't. Quite enough pressure bring it up i got. A little bullet take another one now. When you apply pressure on the top here usually it will be good for about 2 or 3 bullets so I'll bring it back up. Another good looped bullet that's. Without applying pressure another one. Now you see we are missing some loop and. Some spots so you'll stick that. Back in and apply little bit of pressure. Which fills up the loop gaps so now. We'll do an up close view stick the. Bullet on there apply some pressure. Bring back up lube bullet. Do it again letters lubed bullet apply. Some pressure another lubed bullet i used to do a lot. Of pan lubing I'm a competitive shooter. So i shoot a lot of bullets and it is. Extremely slow compared to this and I'm. Doing right now it's pretty slow you get going to two hands you can get a lot. Done really fast by level of pressure. Again and yeah lose your bullet so now. I'll show you all how to use the gas checks heater and slide that in the bottom there I'll take my 8 millimeter. Bullet and gas check apply the gas check. On the bottom stick it in the sizer push. Down till it stops and i get it gas. Check to pull up now to move it you'll. Take it out and run it through like you. Normally would now get your lubed and gas check to. Bullet and this here is what we use you. Got this little rod right here that's what you use to push out the bullet so. We'll take this one's already been. Gassed i conceded but I'll use that as. An example push your rod down and this will bring. It back up so you can take your bullet. Out so that was my video on the. Alignment 4500 lube sizer if you want to. Get one for yourself you can go in the description and I'll have a link there to amazon and you can pick one of these. Up for yourself hope you guys enjoyed. Like and subscribe if you liked it and have a nice day.

Good evening tonight i wanted to do a. Video excuse me on my lyman 4500 lubes. Resizer right here it is in the shot. Got the handle got the ram that's got a. Top punch the size and die fits inside. Here you got a little ratchet right. Here's a reservoir for your lube to go. Into the ratchet counterclockwise adds. Pressure clockwise decreases the. Pressure and allows you to take the pressure ring out to add more lube I'm. Breaking in my new mold tonight it's the. Forty five four or five two diameter 230. Grain trucks uat cone there's a real. Nice looking bullet got a real nice not. Really a deep grease groove but a decent. One so then bring in here a little bit. Closer. Okay so let me show you this is the lube. But the style lube that it takes it's. Got a hold to go down for the center like i said this is a lipid b formula mo. Over at my smith's calm he posted the. Recipe for beeswax with him white. Lithium grease and some other components. So with the lemon lube resizer you. Have to have the sizing die per. Whichever calaboose we'll be using in. This case it's a four or five — also you. Need the top punch for whichever mold. You're using as far as the type of nose. Whether it be truncated cone ass in my. Wadcutter around those you. Have to get the right top punch for that nose profile so you don't damage it so. For a 45 acp you need one sizer die. However you may have to have three or four top punches depending on the. Profile so right now I've got pressure. On and simply the way it works is you. Place the bullet on top of the sizing. Die there's a bottom punch for that when. You lower the round the top punch. Cradles the nose and you simply. Push it down now when you do that it. Sizes the bullet and it forces the lube. Inside of the groove now to bring it back up you simply raise this the ram back up and it pushes your bullet so now. What you have a lube a size. Bullet and you've got lube in the groove. You zoom out here see if i can't get a. Little bit of the operation going here. Down and back up what you do is you. You inspect the groove now out here it's. Missed a couple of places i don't know if you can tell so what you're going to. Want to do put it back in add a little. But more pressure get back up. Now this is really nice but it's a lot. Nicer than pan leaving that's for sure. If there's a mistake you can go back and. Fix it rights quick now there's another. Size Arthur it's called the star sizer. It's really nice you place the bullet down nose first and. As you do it you just push the bullet and it just falls into a box or something and it doesn't require any nose punches just whatever caliber size. And dye that you need. So. There it is that's how lamin 4500. Operates let me get the camera over here. So if i cannot get a better view as to. What's actually going on here. The bullet in there is a top punch. Pushes it down back up. A little bit of pressure you got to do. That every so often if you do too much. Or run it over the nose or the profile. Now remove the camera off the tripod. Here okay now we're off the tripod let's. Come right down here now this is below. The die and this is how you adjust it to. Get the lube into the groove right here. This shiny part that is inside the die. That's the bottom punch now this comes. Back and then hits that portion and that. Ejects the bullet back out so I've done. About that much so far casting those is. All I've got lubed. These are kind of cooled down I'm going. To fire this pop back up a little bit later on tonight i mean it's not fully. Hard but I'll do some casting later on. Tonight but i just wanted to show you. How the lyman 4500 libre says it works. All right we'll catch you on the. Flipside.

Got the Burke instruments 12 inch. Stainless steel thermometer open it up. Take a look as you can see it has a 12. Inch diameter as mentioned it is made of. Stainless steel kind of has a brushed. Look to it's easy to read there's. Actually about 10 inches on the face. Actually the readable part is both. Fahrenheit and Celsius has a glass lens. It comes with and this is the backside. And this dial you see here you can use. It if you need to make any adjustments if you're finding that it's reading just. A little bit off and use a thermometer. That you have make sure the thermometer. Using to compare it with is accurate and then if you turn it to the left it moves. It one way and turn to the right. If you need to increase it we do recommend that you do it in small. Increments because it is a spring in there so you don't want to crank down real hard on it so again this is the. Burke instruments indoor/outdoor. Stainless steel thermometer black casing. It does have a spot for a hook or nail. That you can put in the wall to hang it. Stainless steel thermometer bob your. Instruments.

Ok today we're going to review the lyman. Vote mold 3 1 3 2 4 9 which is a 32. Caliber bullet mold that throws a round. Nose bullet ah 32 now around those. Bullets the box states it should be 85. Grams the reason i bought this bullet. Mold is i wanted to bullet for 32 smiths. & wesson's like you know this lemon. Squeezer here 32 smith & wesson and as. An old cartridge it was important a lot. Of these pocket guns these brake tops. Like the lemon squeezer and then there were a lot of knockoffs and copies a. Harrington Richardson iver johnson it was a popular cartridge for what was. Called pocket guns err concealed carry. Guns back in the 1880s up until they. Still made these guns in this caliber and you'll find a lot of them around the. Problem with the boat balls is or with. The bullet weight is lee makes two thirty-two bullets one's a hundred grain. Which i believe is more for the thirty. Two twenty cartridge, and they made the 93 grain which i had that one and a fork. A b mold and i used that in the 32 smith. & wesson law caliber and it works very. Well the problem i ran into is 93. Grams is a tad bit heavy for the little. 32 smith & wesson so actually lyman has tweeted from bulk. Moulds you could use there's this one here which is 85 grain there's the 311 252 which is even. Slightly smaller they expose idli throws. A 77 grain it's not even ten grains less. Plus you can use this as a light bullet. In the 32 long so that's why i got this. One other than the real light one and. This is kind of one of the smaller bullets i cast another reason why you. Want to reload for the thirty thirty-two smith & wesson is you can get ammunition. There're several manufacturers it was. Kind of hard to find i found this stuff here Remington made it i think Remington makes it i don't know. If winchester makes it and i think magtek will make this short but i. Couldn't find the only thing i could find was a Remington gander mountain wanted like $34 a box for it and i got. This at bud's gun shop and in the end i. Think i bought four or five boxes it comes out to with the shipping and handling and everything the postage about $27 a box so i said yep i have to reload so my. Choice of bullets like i said i got a. Couple of the lead 32 molds which I've. Used in different 32 calibers the french. Revolver and 32 long but they're tad bit. Heavy so i wanted a lighter bullet so i went with the lyman mold and think about. Lyman molds I've always liked them. Actually preferred them the steel molds. To the aluminum when i was younger i had a huge collection of lineman molds on my pistol. Bullets i cast with lyman molds and over. The years i accumulated a lot i sold them all off i wasn't catching bullets for a while and most of the stuff i was. Shooting was surplus guns and ammo so he. Didn't really reload much for the aks. Anything else but now into the antiques the older guns and some of the large. Rifles like 4570 the grass and that you. Have to cast bones so i kind of got back anywhere the linemen moles they. Cost a little more i mean the leading molds you can get a two tab neely mold for about 20 bucks you're looking anymore from sixty to eighty dollars for the lions and their steel well i mean. Only it has a product line you can go. Get a catalogue whatever they have a set number of molds set designs which made. Up to their reloading manuals you can. Find the bullets in the reloading manuals with all the information you. No info data you need steel mold and. It's there you only get them in the steel that are blue they're probably off. The shelf other than a custom mold. They're probably the best quality mold you can get our cbs is good sake i was. Good but i always like the lyman's out. Cbs is are a little bit more expensive in psychos are a little more expensive. Then alignment also and i really like. Then i always have steel molds once you. Get the grease off of them get them up. To temperature and run the casts are. Real nice bullet really no break-in. Period i hate you know once it got up. The temperature first time out hit some. You know you get yours anomalies once you got out the temperature cats good bullets all day long and i cast these. With 120 lead alloy and i made them kind. Of soft you don't want to make them hard. For the old guns with the old. Barrels either you know so i use the. Softer led i didn't use like hardball if. I was looking for a 38 special or. Something or 32 long i might use a. Different a like a little bit harder but. I just use a 1 to 20 fairly soft fathers. It's just pure light and a bullets did come out to about ninety-three and a half 94 grains very nice and like i said. Pulling in a fired case did an idea it. Looks good it's probably the heavy end. There's only two bullets the 84 and the. 77 green for the 32 smith & wesson as. For the steel molds like when i was revealing the other mold i had some brass ones the line of molds only come and steal some places you go and you. Give your choice of what material you want to mold me out or either steel brass or aluminum a little bit of molds. Are always going to be less expensive no matter if you get them custom-made and the only thing about aluminum molds i. Use a lot of them i guess a lot of bullets would you kind of hit a spot. With the aluminum walls where they cast. Good once they're warmed up and another. Think if you're out in the garage that. Ideally should cast indoors where the. Temperature and climate control is regulated stopping the garage at a cold. Day out here the aluminum molds act up on me you know they cool off too fast. That's your room temperature is really cold where the steel molds what i like. About them is once you get them up to. Temperature and that's where i did a technique this i like to moles and once. You get them up to temperature you're. Poor one set it on the bench to let it cool a little before the second one set. It on the bench open this one repour by then it's cooled off and on and you can. Actually look the steel mole if you can keep them up there nice temperature without over evening and. Smear on the top of the blocks that's when you get them too hot and you get carried away caston and you can keep two. Molds run all day on beautiful bullets. Not have any leg build-up nothing no trouble that's why i kind of like them. But the downside is they are more. Expensive you know for the price of this. I can get three different types lee. Molds for the same amount of money and that's why a lot of people go with it there you're trying to conserve money that's kind of the name of the game but. As far as the linemen molds i never had. A bad one they're always they always make good. Bullets for me no matter what i like them a lot and this one here is. Like i said just heavy load for 33 smiths. & wesson i kind of had to go in it because you know we didn't have a bullet. Light enough i got the other 232 family. Which i do use in air aluminum well this. One here was just to get it out it was a. Pleasure to cast with you know even. Though it's a bit of an expense to it. The molds all you know all the way. Around i like i said I've had several of them over the years i bought a lot of them in the past i like them the only. Think about this is when you're done for. The day you got a coat it down with some. Wd-40 or spray something on there. Because they will rust still rust overnight if i leave this out here without putting oil on it or something or some kind of protective coating it will rust overnight it's about the only downside of the steel. Molds is you have to make sure that you don't let them rust does that a room so. That's it if you're looking for a mold for again the 32 smith & wesson. You're gonna reload that caliber i don't. Now if there's anything out there but i got these lyman three one three two. Forty nine and it's good mold, and we're. Going to do some reloading when i get into reloading it we'll try them off let's check out a bullet or.

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Alright now I'm going to go over lyman. Bowls and there's a little bit more involved with lyman's than with the li. Molds first of all if you notice on this. Label here where it says handles. Large-size lyman's come in different. Sizes mold works i have a single cavity. Smaller we'll get this one out of the package here again lyman's come with a. Guide and instructions and safety. Precautions and when you by lining. Molds all you get is the block and you. Have to buy a set of handles separately. And there's three different sizes like. They said there's large small and then. Actually for the four cavity molds. Different style handle that comes around. So depending on what but the one set of. Molds like if you get one set of mold handles all three sizes it'll handle the. Different things if you notice this is a. Single cavity mold the blocks are. Smaller this is a single cavity mold for a round ball and this is a single cavity. Rifle bullet mold but these blocks are. Small and will require a small handle. And this mold i got here even though. It's a single cavity because basically it's the size of most of your double cavity like 38 sin that is a large size. Means large handles and if you look at. These handles i don't know if you can see it or not you can see that where the. Hole is and kind of like when both. Handles are closed this is like a narrower gap and this is wider these are. Small handles these are large handles. These handles will fit on this block. These hands than this okay and if you try to put the. Small-block on here and won't work and. Also i don't really believe it'd be good for the large because it won't light the holes or line up with lyman molds you're. Going to need screwdrivers any tools. Because there're two screws that come out. Of the block that go through these holes and you screw back in which hold the. Mold on handles the other molds as well. Have a screw here which this screw holds. In the screw and the washer for the. Screw plate if you have to adjust it or. Whatever over time if the screw plate gets too tight or whatever you can make an adjustment to that's an older bullet. Mold that bullet molds about 25 years i. Bought that 25 years ago brand-new er so. This one i just bought last week if you. Notice they don't use a screw anymore. You're also should have an allen wrench. Set you're gonna need an allen wrench if. You have to adjust this but right now. We'll catch some bullets and see you. Usually don't need adjustment other than where or over time the heat will make. This loosens up and you might have to make an adjustment so but have the tools. On hand while you're casting because everything always acts up while you're. Careful so what I'll do is I'll put. These on a handle i don't to grease them coz we've seen any other video i just i. Use mineral spirits so we'll just so you. Take these screws out and make sure you had the right size screw one nail fit in. At counter bore cuz these screws as. You see are into the counter border so. You need a screw that's you know narrower then the counter bore to get. Down in their oh yeah big enough to. Engage the screw so proper size screw is. Important because you don't want to damage anything maybe remove the one. Screw. Make sure you have it the right way this fruit plate swings this way that's where. You're gonna hit so you want to put them on the handles like that so basically. You get two handles in their close that. Flip them around and then get your. Screws and be careful because you know they're threaded the whole length you don't want to strip them out then get. The screws in the hole and it goes into the threaded part on top side of the block just gently tighten it if they. Loosen up keep the screwdriver handy while you're casting if you feel the. Block didn't loose or to screw back and out to screw it in be careful when they're hot you don't burn your fingers. Because you are doing a lot of movement and banging and these things will loosen. Up so always check them too before you start it's always a good idea to give them a little check and check your mold or free start. There you go you'll make sure you put. Then on the right way they will go on the other way on their yard handles. Installed the good thing about it is. Once you buy one set of handles in the. Different sizes all the our cbs molds. Will fit on here i believe seiko sequel. Has maybe a little bit different but i think they've been on here and i get a. Set of handles wrong that were had two. Sets poles in here and it was kind of. Universal handle i don't know if it was made by alignment or not but it would take either or he the holes were in a. Different location and angled so you might be able to get a set of those if you see them with two holes in it that means it'll take either r or i believe but i find the other handles I'll go over that but basically that's getting. Your linemen mold ready and i think. You've seen it in the other videos what I'm going to do is degrease this with mineral spirits wipe all the packing. Grease off and then I'm going to smoke the mold with a match and there's several other people with both moles that show how to do this I'm not going to go into it and repeat all this if. You've seen the other bullet mold videos. You know how to prep this to get it ready to cast bolts but that's how you. Use a bit more your lyman style mole to. Tell you get them settled.