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    Update I just got my freestyle fat guys lead head mold in the mail, when I get time to pour some I’ll report back

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    We’ll I got time to pour a little, I did 75 in about 15 minutes, much much faster

    The fat boys mold is very clean and precise and breaking the spruce off is clean with almost to none residual cleanup necessary, the mold has a more precise eye socket and the fat boys is slightly narrower but slightly taller than the do it freestyle 1/32 but both wiegh 15 grains or .04 of an ounce so they do wiegh the same, side note, the hole from the spruce to the head is smaller than the do it, in my few pours I never got 14 to come out at a time usually 11-12, I use the laddle style heated pot that just pours I bet with one that comes out the bottom or with more practice 14 at a time would be easy

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    I had issues with my Lee production pot and a 2 pound Rowell ladle. Then I bought a bottom pour Lee pot. Then I bought a Lyman one pound ladle, and that is what I use now. I found that some molds do better with an easy pouring motion, and some want the stem of the ladle inserted and forced to fill. Weird I know but it is the way things go. The bottom pour might work but it might not. If you still have issues consider a Lyman dipper. Huge hassle having to clean lead off the hook and go for the big re-pour.

    I wondered about the 14 cavities with hooks and wires and such. I would lose any speed advantage 14 cavities presented due to fiddling and bumping it and having to refiddle a few.

    You mentioned it poured very clean, but the pictures on their website show otherwise. I was surprised to see a CNC mold with those type of results. Glad to see you are having better results.
    Maybe they will bite this one……

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    The four in the left are the fat boys and the 4 in the rught are the do -it

    The eye socket is much more defined and where the spruce joins needs almost no cleanup versus the do it does

    I believe a bit of baby powder and a little more practice with my pouring and I’ll be able to get all 14 at a time even at 11-12 it’s still much quicker than one at a time!
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    If the pour doesn’t take there is no clean up, it either pours in the hook or doesn’t even make it to the hook, no flashing whatsoever on any pour

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    Yeah it’s going to be a much cleaner head due to being an aluminum mold. I’d be interested in how much cleaner it would be if you placed the spout of the pot directly in the gate of each cavity. Doing it this way gets me the cleanest heads on molds I have.

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    Hmm I’ll try that next round but it maybe a few weeks don’t really need any at the moment but I may get a suprise big order, we’ll see

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    Great mold. Putting keepers in, is a pain in the rear, but I don’t think that’s a mold problem, that’s just big jittery fingers.

    Averaging about 10-12 good jigs per pour (14 cavity mold).

    I think a production pot would help. Some of my problems come from splash over from the previous cavity, solidifying and clogging the next cavity.

    Jigs fall out of mold. No smoking the mold or any other prep work. I do use vice grips to keep the mold shut and tight each pour.

    Raw jigs and then a sample and some testing of various colors and looks. Learned a lot and going to do several things different next time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TreednNC View Post
    Great mold. Putting keepers in, is a pain in the rear, but I don’t think that’s a mold problem, that’s just big jittery fingers.

    Averaging about 10-12 good jigs per pour (14 cavity mold).

    I think a production pot would help. Some of my problems come from splash over from the previous cavity, solidifying and clogging the next cavity.

    Jigs fall out of mold. No smoking the mold or any other prep work. I do use vice grips to keep the mold shut and tight each pour.

    Raw jigs and then a sample and some testing of various colors and looks. Learned a lot and going to do several things different next time.

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    Those look great!
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    Those look good to me as well.

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