Another First

[skeetbum]

Fatman was kind enough to share one of the molds he found and had doubles of. Now keep in mind that I just recently poured my first sinkers in a mold that's over 60 yrs old, made of cast iron. I don't have tons of 'sperience. All I have to use for lead is a boatload of wheel weights, not the most desirable. But I got the mold in the mail and had to give it a try anyway. The pics show heads from 2 molds. The ball collar mold was Dad's too and it doesn't align right. The others came from the newer mold, and if you look you can see that the lead didn't flow all the way into the collars. No big deal since I've taken to cutting them off lately anyway. But here they are, and if they all have to be trimmed like these did, I won't be doing much pouring. Too time consuming. Third pic is the ball collar heads(duh) and if you look at the first pic you can see that the mold cast a ring to tie the line to. Diggin out the eye under all that was different, probably wont use that one much. It casts 1 each of 1/32, 1/16, 1/8, 1/4. No barn burner for production. Thanx for lookin.