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Plug Building - Got Wood? Got Plug?

 
 
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Old 04-28-2009, 08:17 PM   #5
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1......preheat your mold to hot..

2......after melting your lead..skim off the crap that floats to the surface in your pot.it will mess up a good pour.

3.....the pouring spout on those are to round and wide....file or grind a nice shape "V" into it....lead always flows abit wider then the snoot it's being poured out of on hand ladles.

Concur and to add I preheat the mold with map gas and keep heating it throughout...

The pull wire should be perfect like a SS welding wire to the dia. of the hole prob 1/8?

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