Removing Handle Pins From Lee Mold Blocks
Removing Handle Pins From Lee Mold Blocks
Anyone got any ideas on a good way to get the handle pins out of a Lee mold?
Have one that is a great mold but has developed some ( like me) hard headed problems that make necessary to dis assemble it to fix
All ideas accepted
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Have one that is a great mold but has developed some ( like me) hard headed problems that make necessary to dis assemble it to fix
All ideas accepted
beekeeper
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Re: Removing Handle Pins From Lee Mold Blocks
If these are the old style mold then I think they are press fit. I'm not sure they come out. You might have to drill from the top to punch them out. I hope someone has a better answer. You might call Lee and ask.
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Re: Removing Handle Pins From Lee Mold Blocks
That is about it. I've heard of guys deburring the hole, soaking it with oil, and then gently tapping the top of the mold to see if you can get the pin to start out enough to grab.Maximumbob54 wrote:If these are the old style mold then I think they are press fit. I'm not sure they come out. You might have to drill from the top to punch them out. I hope someone has a better answer. You might call Lee and ask.
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Re: Removing Handle Pins From Lee Mold Blocks
Get a bigger hammer.
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True! What I would also do is heat the blocks with a propane torch as aluminum expands immediately in response to the heat.Old Scribe wrote:Get a bigger hammer.
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Re: Removing Handle Pins From Lee Mold Blocks
The old ones are a pin from the bottom and needs a hole drilled in the top and driven out this way.
The new ones are kinda sorta of a corace screw that can be unscrewed with a little finess.
The new ones are kinda sorta of a corace screw that can be unscrewed with a little finess.
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Re: Removing Handle Pins From Lee Mold Blocks
I made a post it went out there somewhere i guess.
I took 1 of mineapart. I drilled about a 1/16 hole centered over the pin. The pins are slip fit and staked in. With the smaller than pin hole drilled I punched the pins out easily. When they were replaced I just used a punch to peen/stake the hole back to keep the pin in.
I took 1 of mineapart. I drilled about a 1/16 hole centered over the pin. The pins are slip fit and staked in. With the smaller than pin hole drilled I punched the pins out easily. When they were replaced I just used a punch to peen/stake the hole back to keep the pin in.
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Re: Removing Handle Pins From Lee Mold Blocks
I guess I'll save that bigger hammer for another project.
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Re: Removing Handle Pins From Lee Mold Blocks
Chicken Thief<
Didn't you have a procedure for removing the Pins?
Seems I remember a post over on cast boolits a couple of years ago where you told how to do it!
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Didn't you have a procedure for removing the Pins?
Seems I remember a post over on cast boolits a couple of years ago where you told how to do it!
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Re: Removing Handle Pins From Lee Mold Blocks
I suffer from 2 deseases now as i am getting older, CRS and CSS!
Cant Remember Sh** and Cant See Sh**
This falls into the first category, besides i got booted from there a couple of years ago so it is knowledge lost forever.
Just redid one and it seems i drilled from the top and drowe it out with a pin, then screwed it back in.
And to whoever at Lee that thought left hand thread on the sprue screw would cure it becoming loose. Hey guess what it needed a set screw just like all the right hand threaded ones!
Your problem is using a self tapping screw that by design lends itself to be permanently loose if backed out the slightest amount (it not rocket surgery). You want to make it work Lee? Put in a helicoil, the alu is dead soft and will gall.
Cant Remember Sh** and Cant See Sh**
This falls into the first category, besides i got booted from there a couple of years ago so it is knowledge lost forever.
Just redid one and it seems i drilled from the top and drowe it out with a pin, then screwed it back in.
And to whoever at Lee that thought left hand thread on the sprue screw would cure it becoming loose. Hey guess what it needed a set screw just like all the right hand threaded ones!
Your problem is using a self tapping screw that by design lends itself to be permanently loose if backed out the slightest amount (it not rocket surgery). You want to make it work Lee? Put in a helicoil, the alu is dead soft and will gall.