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AlvinYork
I saw, one time a while back, a 10 cav 223 mould. I forget the exact specs of the bullet, but it was sold out. Eventually it vanished from the web site. It looked like one would pour one one side, flip it over then pour on the other side. I would be interested in getting one of these in something that would fit in my 556. Also it would be cool in and of itself. Guaranteed to break the ice at parties!
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Mike B.
I would think that the mould with a sprue plate on both sides of the equation would be a bit harder to fill, as one would tend to have to wait until the lead on the sprue plate was cooled enough to turn over to fill the second side.
Also with two sprue plates the mould might be a bit harder to close up… and keep up any kind of a rhythm in filling…
The sprue holes & the cavities might also have to be offset so as not to interfere with the other side…
So such a mould would by necessity be limited to very short cavities … so as not to interfere with the other sides product…
I have also seen such a mould once… from a member a long time ago… Never saw it filled only as a new mould sans handles… his was something larger than a 22 caliber mould … more like a short 38 pistol mould…
Lee still has something like it for its round balls… though one still has to cut the cast products in two to get a single round ball & the very narrow entrance into the lower cavity sometimes leaves something to be desired on the fill on the lower cavities…
It is what it is…
Take Care, & Stay Safe…
Personally something like a 10 cavity H&G mould might potentially be of interest… to the membership.
Also with a normal 223 diameter mould body … One might potentially be able to get away with spacing those smaller 223 cavities closer together in a side by side format… as H&G did in the past…
That allows one to use a longer mould body without having to double up on the depth to put cavities on the top & bottom of the mould block…
Especially for the 223 cast weights that are longer than ~ 50 Gr…. anything heavier in that caliber and the two sided cavities will run into each other unless they are offset…
An ~ 67 GR cast product FN leaves only ~ .030 between the top and bottom cavity if they are both in line with each other…
An H&G version would allow virtually any bullet weight offered by NOE as the depth of the mould block appears to be ~ 1.480 on the sample moulds that I measured…
H&G tended to have a trough on all of the H&G moulds that I have in my war bag… for me … It apparently necessitates a much faster fill than the NOE individual sprue holes require.
Personally I prefer the individual sprue type of sprue plate that NOE uses…
However that is just my opinion … others tend to prefer the trough cut into the sprue plate…
It is what it is…
Your call on how to proceed…
Take Care, & Stay Safe…
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