NOE

rodmkr

Temecula California
Are they still in business?
Have been to their web site almost every day for a month looking for a 308XCB mold.
Almost every mold no matter what size shows none in stock.
Their website has no activity since last year.

rodmkr
 

Spindrift

Well-Known Member
They are in business indeed, not too long since my last purchase there. I think, however, there is a focus on «group buys»- and not so much on making molds «in stock». My guess is, the XCB- mold is so popular, it will soon be back in stock.

If you get tired of waiting, the Arsenal molds 311-170 (HVTH), has given quite similar results for me.
 

RBHarter

West Central AR
Check out the attached NOE forums . There are several forums that are requested runs , new designs , run statuses , group buys and finished run announcements . I suspect that they have reached another growth step where they can't decide between more tools or more bodies .
It's pretty much a family shop , Al his , 2 boys and wives pick & pack on the weekends . Also in the last 3 weeks they had a whole in inventory sale probably for quarterly inventory taxes .

Like I say check the NOE forum and see what's on deck , up coming or pending 2-3 more buyers . I did that for his version of the 457132 a couple of years ago and he ran 5 each 1,2&3 cavity for just 3 requested and those were gone about 3 weeks .
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
it's been a while since the XCB bullet has been run.
the problem is people want it but none of them know how to tell AL to make another run.
 

TCFAN

Missouri Ozarks
As much as I like NOE molds,the one thing I don't like is that nothing is kept in stock.Several time I have wanted a mold and NOE had nothing in stock and I had to go some where else. I won't do group buys any more.If you are going to run a business you need to keep a inventory of at least your most popular items. Just my 2 cents worth.........
 

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Spent much of a career in commissioned sales, and it is not easy to walk in your front door and hand your wife a paltry paycheck because product was not available.

Concentrating on one segment of your customer base --group buys? -- while ignoring another is a poor business model. My son-in-law wanted a 452374 type mold, an everyday bread and butter mould, but NOE didn't have any in stock, so he bought from Arsenal.
 

Tomme boy

Well-Known Member
There is a group buy at the boolit site for the xcb mould that just closed. I am sure you still get one.
 

RBHarter

West Central AR
NOE's system drove me to Accurate molds. (I hate spelling moulds like that). Stochybotrys is a mold, bullets come from moulds.

I agree .
Mold is on fruit , cheese , and bread . Mould is a form or figure to contain a liquid until it is a solid , semisolid , or appropriate shell .
 

RBHarter

West Central AR
Al will run existing program , tooling on hand moulds with only a few requests , especially quickly if the requested are the same mould count . Like I said I think there was only 3 requested for that huge 45 , and they ran 3 moulds of each block set . Not a really popular request but apparently a popular mould to buy .

The same same holds true of dozens of others .
He still wants 15+ for a new design that needs new tooling . And 10 for an archived design not in the current inventory catalogue , probably because the programs are out of the system and have to be reloaded . It only takes a few for catalogued items to run and depending on past demand he may run several times the required number of each block set .
 

Jeff H

NW Ohio
I have one NOE mould. They had exactly what I wanted once. I have checked their site for several others first, but never found another in stick that I wanted. The two most recent, a 210 grain 44 RFN and a 150 grain 7.62x39 FN, were not. I found a 210 grain 44 a Arsenal that I actually liked a little better and had it within a few days. The 7.62x39 mould, I got direct from Michael Reamy, who designed the one I wanted from NOE. He had one (two actually) and sold me one a few weeks ago. A few years ago, I was eyeballing 22 moulds on NOE when LEE started making their 225-55, and I snatched that up new from LEE.

I'll still try NOE, but I don't get my hopes up I'll find what I want. If I do, that's a bonus. If I don't, I try elsewhere.
 

JonB

Halcyon member
I have a lot of NOE molds, but I haven't bought many molds recently, but I did buy two different design 41 cal pistol bullet molds from Jared at Arsenal molds in the last two years...even while I did start the process for each, at NOE's forum for those designs...they were new designs BTW, maybe part of my problem?
Anyway, the lack of interest or lack of activity on his web form pushed me toward Arsenal...BTW, They do excellent work.
 

mattw

Active Member
I have checked stock at NOE several times... having not found the mould I wanted ever in stock... I have ordered a few from Jared and Arsenal and scrounged a few Lyman originals. If more CNC machines are needed, add them... Something should be in stock for common bullets. Just my 2 cents worth. I do not buy Accurate moulds, due to price for a chunk of aluminum cut by a computer. CNC should help the price, no?
 

CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
Bruce B and I had this same conversation some years back concerning "Mold' vs. "Mould"--something to the tune of "Is Mountain Molds a cheese factory or a tool maker?" It was good-natured, as were all of my discussions with Bruce. But I followed his lead, because it makes a lot of sense.

I am tolerated on the old site, but certainly not welcomed. Most of my time there is spent in a sub-group that Buckshot/Rick Tunell set up some years back. Even that small cadre has slowed markedly. NCBS is soon, and that gets some traffic on the public side and in the sub-group. I usually come to regret my ventures into the public realm over there.

AFAIC--the varsity team lines up right here at ASBC.
 
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