Home Forums Hunting & Shooting BPCR A big 'ole ladle,,The "Double pour Dumpster"

Been usin' this for at least a coupla years, ...more probably. After reading Mathews, on a deeper column giving proportionately higher "Head Pressure", I had made up a single spout version, and it worked so well that I went a bit Ape$hit, and spooled this thing up..................

It carries .85 lb of alloy, and all the wall area seems to function as a dross trap...........I can do 40-50 pours, without fluxing, and the pot (22 lb Lyman ) is by than low enough to think about a recharge.......on days when I'm feeling really productive, I can stretch into 60-70 pours, and than am "Scraping the bottom of the pot"....Normal production is 110-120 bullets/hour....not to many rejects, the driving bands are crisp on the 3rd pour, that after a fairly savage pre heat, with a MAPP torch............

Flux is LETS, from ferguson...good stuff.

The blocks are 550 gr Leeth " Gordon", nose pour variety.

Like this set up a lot...............sent one over to Leeth, he hated it.....he's one of those bottom pour nuts, and who an I to argue , with the man who made these splendid molds.

Something about pouring both cavities simultaneously really seemed to cure all the headaches I had had with runnin' double cavity blocks, up to that time.Cavity to cavity disparities ( Which had plagued me) in weight became minimal.

Nothing particularly new , or astounding about this idea, its been around a long , long time. The nipples are chunks of old .22 barrel, and I like to B.S. gullible types.............." if you go to Australia, or S. America, you'll have to go to a left hand twist, cuz' the " Swirl "effect will be backwards"

This ladle is run " Tight coupled".....and no leakage , or run out of alloy is experienced. Breaking the spouts away seems to slosh enough alloy out to " Feed the riser", and when your moving this much alloy , per pour, the mold, and it's beefy sprue plate can't even think of getting cool.

Regards, GTC

Poop, forgot to put a ruler in there, to give yuz an idee, as to size.....the mold blocks/ handles...12" long, the ladle is 15 1/2 " long.
Ladle body is a chunk of 1 1/2 ' sqare tubing.

Cheers, GTC

"Interesting" (what do you use for a screwdriver now? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

Laugh not , oh mirthful one....and notice that the orientation of the square handle, and the svelte bend in the former screwriver...conform to comfortable and progressive theories of ergonomics.

They better, the sumbit$h is NOT very light.

GTC

"Silly Me", missed the subtlety... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

I do love those multi-purpose tools. Making bullets and repelling boarders all in a day's work! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Really though, that is a fair piece of hardware you have there, nicely done. May I steal the thought at some point in the future when I start making my own Hinderbergs? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

No theft involved, expressed, or implied................

any additional height of the " Column" will give you a mite more "head" pressure....I guess proportionate to the additional mass of a cylinder the dia. of the spout orfice, and no more.............even if the sucker held 55 Gal.
Matthews had his buddy Cornell make one up, and than he wrote about it....with plans.......Galvanized pipe coupler (Galvanized ?!)....and all sorts of intricate boring, and tapping, etc.
Common everday scrap structural iron and black pipe suffices, around here, and all the joints are with fusion ......the only filler rod used is some 309 stainless, at the juncture of the body, and the higher carbon steel tool.

Will dig out a single cavity version, and post, in raw parts breakdown........Other than EXACT hole spacing requirement on double pour, these are dead simple to spool up.

GTC