I bought a couple new Lymans off of midway a few weeks ago, yes I know prices have jumped, but what can you do if you want it your going to pay. I came across a 457-122 and a 457-193. Finally got them after 10 days in the postal service and washed them down with degreaser and said lets do it. Pulled the pot snd the hot plate out and got it heating up. I started with the 457-122 HP and I cast and cast probably took 50 cycles before I started getting keepers. The nose and HP were great almost from the start, nil the bases and driving bands took forever. Finally after countless pours it gets right and let me tell you, I fell in love with it. It started throwing perfect bullets. I cycled the 457-193 into the rotation to give the 122 time to cool of a hair snd it took 10-15 pours snd it started getting right, by 25-30 it was throwing a beautiful bullet finally got to the point I was struggling to keep the pace and one would cool off a hair too much and take 2-3 outs to get back up. I finally abandoned the 193 and set it back on the hot plate I kept going wit the 122. After all was said and done I ended up with 75 or so keepers on the 122 and maybe 50 of the 193. I was pleasantly surprised they leveled out as quick as they did snd threw the buooets they did. Overall I’m super happy with how they came out. Casted them with pure COWW. I tore the molds down and gave them a good cleaning and leveled and slicked the sprue plates, going to give them another run next week snd see what they will do since a good heat cycle. Overall I have found a new favorite to cast.
Murre are a few pics of the end result. If you see anything that I may need to do differently, even after a few years I’m still learning. Apologies for the pics being side ways doing this off my phone snd I don’t know how to get them oriented correctly.
Murre are a few pics of the end result. If you see anything that I may need to do differently, even after a few years I’m still learning. Apologies for the pics being side ways doing this off my phone snd I don’t know how to get them oriented correctly.