holt on there twowithone,
thought your luck would hold out forever dija?? well it didn't, here i am... :blah:
some of these old hard and fast rules of thumb are just that, old, old, rules. 'sprue up', is one such rule.
don't know how old you are, but, back in the old days a bullet mold was a tong tool. it cast one ball at a time, when the mold was open, the ball fell out WITH the sprue attached. the tong had a built in sprue snipper in the handles. you held up the ball and sprue and snipped that rascal off
now what you had was a ball with a significant sprue. THAT sprue had to be put straight up as it had some weight to it..
if they had molds in the days of yore ( ml talk for a long time ago ) LIKE WE HAVE TODAY, THAT TRIM THE SPRUE WHEN THE MOLD IS OPENED WITH NO TRACE OF THE SPRUE, oops, cap lock was on :redface: i doubt we would ever, ever, have heard the expression,'SPRUES UP'
remember the above was just a grampaisum.. :grin:
..ttfn..grampa..