Greenmtnboy
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Three years ago I bought a .440 bag mold, a .530 two cavity mold and a .440 two cavity mold.
I sent my bag mold back because I could see light through it, at that time I got in to a lengthy discussion with Ray over tolerances. He felt that he didn't need to replace my bag mold because it was supposed to be a primitive mold and tight tolerances were not historically correct.
I said :bull: send me my money back or a new mold, he sent a new mold with tighter tolerances but still low quality.
My .440 two cavity mold threw OK balls but with fins because the mold block didn't line up, I kept it anyway because I didn't want to deal with Ray's :bull: , so I would cast balls and tumble them in my tumbler and it would get rid of the fins and sprue but the balls were horribly out of round.
I didn't use my .530 mold until this spring because I had a bunch of swaged ball and only used my 54 for hunting. bought my wife a new 54 last winter and wanted her to shoot it all summer and cast balls were the cheapest way.
I casted 100 balls,tumbled them and went to the range with my wife. She immediately had a hard time starting the cast balls. I threw my calipers on them and found out that my .530 mold cast .535 balls.
I sent the mold back and explained that I just started using the mold and it cast the wrong size balls.
Ray sent the mold back with cold cast wrinkled balls in the cavities and said I didn't know what the hell I was doing or talking about, he wrote this all over my Rapine box that held the mold.
he said I wasn't using pure lead,( :bull: I use pure Rotometal lead) and that I was casting my ball to hot also :bull: .At this point I was ****** enough that I didn't want his damn out of round over sized crappy molds.
I sent both molds back with several ball that I casted and tumbled and with pictures of the over size balls and asked for a refund sense both molds were faulty.
I didn't hear from him all summer even after I mailed him two letters of question and called several times leaving messages.
I finally got a letter today saying once again that I didn't know what the hell I was doing, that the .530 mold actually throws the right size ball :bull: and I needed to send him 20.00 for shipping if I ever wanted to see my molds again.
Not only is Ray Rapine a incompetent thief his product sucks and I can see why he his out of business.
I am out 140.00 which really hurts right now not to mention the pain in my ass I had to deal all summer. I had to buy a Lyman mold from track of the wolf with money I couldn't afford to throw away just so I could cast .440 balls to compete with this summer.
If any of you have experiences this I am making a formal complaint with the better business bureau as well as filing a sm claimes in court.
Ray stole my money and my molds.
He also said the brand new 54 mold that had only 100 ball through it was wore out and over used :youcrazy: :shake: :bull: .
I sent my bag mold back because I could see light through it, at that time I got in to a lengthy discussion with Ray over tolerances. He felt that he didn't need to replace my bag mold because it was supposed to be a primitive mold and tight tolerances were not historically correct.
I said :bull: send me my money back or a new mold, he sent a new mold with tighter tolerances but still low quality.
My .440 two cavity mold threw OK balls but with fins because the mold block didn't line up, I kept it anyway because I didn't want to deal with Ray's :bull: , so I would cast balls and tumble them in my tumbler and it would get rid of the fins and sprue but the balls were horribly out of round.
I didn't use my .530 mold until this spring because I had a bunch of swaged ball and only used my 54 for hunting. bought my wife a new 54 last winter and wanted her to shoot it all summer and cast balls were the cheapest way.
I casted 100 balls,tumbled them and went to the range with my wife. She immediately had a hard time starting the cast balls. I threw my calipers on them and found out that my .530 mold cast .535 balls.
I sent the mold back and explained that I just started using the mold and it cast the wrong size balls.
Ray sent the mold back with cold cast wrinkled balls in the cavities and said I didn't know what the hell I was doing or talking about, he wrote this all over my Rapine box that held the mold.
he said I wasn't using pure lead,( :bull: I use pure Rotometal lead) and that I was casting my ball to hot also :bull: .At this point I was ****** enough that I didn't want his damn out of round over sized crappy molds.
I sent both molds back with several ball that I casted and tumbled and with pictures of the over size balls and asked for a refund sense both molds were faulty.
I didn't hear from him all summer even after I mailed him two letters of question and called several times leaving messages.
I finally got a letter today saying once again that I didn't know what the hell I was doing, that the .530 mold actually throws the right size ball :bull: and I needed to send him 20.00 for shipping if I ever wanted to see my molds again.
Not only is Ray Rapine a incompetent thief his product sucks and I can see why he his out of business.
I am out 140.00 which really hurts right now not to mention the pain in my ass I had to deal all summer. I had to buy a Lyman mold from track of the wolf with money I couldn't afford to throw away just so I could cast .440 balls to compete with this summer.
If any of you have experiences this I am making a formal complaint with the better business bureau as well as filing a sm claimes in court.
Ray stole my money and my molds.
He also said the brand new 54 mold that had only 100 ball through it was wore out and over used :youcrazy: :shake: :bull: .