My new Lee mold arrived today from Midwayusa. I'm fairly new to casting so I was excited as a schoolgirl at a boy band concert. Right away I started up the pot, blah, blah, blah.
When everything was ready, before I could even make the first pour, I accidentally dropped the new mold into the pot while trying to preheat the damn thing. What's worse, I decided to submerge the whole block into the pot hoping it would melt off the lead. NOPE, made it much worst. The longer I leave the mold in the pot, the more lead cling onto it. :crying:
What was going to be a nice uninterrupted afternoon of casting quickly turned into an afternoon full of frustrations involving the use of every profanity words known to man.
After sometime scrubbing the mold down, I managed to get most of it off. There's still a bit of lead in the more hard to reach places, causing the two blocks to not be able to close completely shut. There's still quite a bit of lead inside the cavity grooves. Tomorrow, I think I will try again to melt off the left over lead, didn't want to scrub too hard and damage the cavities.
Any other suggestions to safely clean off all the lead inside the cavities?