Lead Pot Advice

[TexasSkyhawk]

+1 to all who couldn't read Ober's gibberish. Figured I could try and decipher it while eating Advil like M&Ms or just skip it . . . skipped it.

I like the Lee Pro IV-20 pot. I've done some casting with the RCBS Pro Melt bottom pour and it is a nice unit--almost five times more expensive than the Lee furnace, and it still drips just like the Lee furnace.

Bottom pour pots are simply going to drip now and then. How much they drip can largely be up to you.

On the castboolits forum, there is a superb sticky about Lee-menting your Lee moulds. Follow this advice to the "T" and your Lee moulds will drop boolits that you can't tell the difference between with RCBS or Lyman or Saeco or whoever moulds.

I decided to do a little "Lee-menting" on my Lee Pro IV-20 furnace and it vastly improved its performance. The only time I get a drip now is when I get dirt in the bottom. I can stop what I'm doing and flux thoroughly to really clean the lead up, and no more drip. (But sometimes I just flat get lazy.)

All in all, it's a helluva good furnace for $70-something dollars.

Jeff

 

[Snapping Twig]

Buy a 10 kilo furnace from RCBS, you'll never look back.

 

[Quickdraw McGraw]

+1 to all who couldn't read Ober's gibberish. Figured I could try and decipher it while eating Advil like M&Ms or just skip it . . . skipped it.

I like the Lee Pro IV-20 pot. I've done some casting with the RCBS Pro Melt bottom pour and it is a nice unit--almost five times more expensive than the Lee furnace, and it still drips just like the Lee furnace.

Bottom pour pots are simply going to drip now and then. How much they drip can largely be up to you.

On the castboolits forum, there is a superb sticky about Lee-menting your Lee moulds. Follow this advice to the "T" and your Lee moulds will drop boolits that you can't tell the difference between with RCBS or Lyman or Saeco or whoever moulds.

I decided to do a little "Lee-menting" on my Lee Pro IV-20 furnace and it vastly improved its performance. The only time I get a drip now is when I get dirt in the bottom. I can stop what I'm doing and flux thoroughly to really clean the lead up, and no more drip. (But sometimes I just flat get lazy.)

All in all, it's a helluva good furnace for $70-something dollars.

Jeff

Jeff can you throw up a link. I was over there and didn't see that sticky, Thanks.

 

[TexasSkyhawk]

Here ya go--

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=654

Jeff

 

[SSN Vet]

That gibberish is just plain painful to read...

By the way, welcome to the reloaders section...

do these two quoes seem to contradict each other, or is it just me.

 

[Griz44]

Naw Vet, not really. The post itself was done intelligently, with good content. The abbreviated verbage was hard to read. The guy/gal(?) seems earnest and geniune in his interest, which makes him one of us.

 

[RustyFN]

Naw Vet, not really. The post itself was done intelligently, with good content. The abbreviated verbage was hard to read. The guy/gal(?) seems earnest and geniune in his interest, which makes him one of us.

Well put Griz. Nothing against the poster just the way it was written.
Rusty

 

[Griz44]

Hey Vet, I see from your sig that you are in Maine. How close to Lubec are you? I have family there.

 

[Quickdraw McGraw]

Here ya go--

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=654

Jeff

Thank you sir!

 

[TexasSkyhawk]

Thank you sir!

There is some GREAT information in that thread, I tell you!

In fact, the Lee-menting works so well, I may never buy another steel or iron mould again unless it's for a boolit I can't find in an aluminum mould.

Jeff

 

[dmftoy1]

I used the bejesus out of my Lee Pro-Pot IV for over a year and sold it for about what I paid for it. (Upgraded to the RCBS Pro-melt) I couldn't justify the RCBS until I knew if I was going to keep casting and I've got nothing bad to say about the Lee other than the dripping. I find the built in theromstat/thermocouple in the RCBS to be really nice, but I was able to use a thermometer with the Lee and fiddle with the settings as I cast and never had a problem.

FWIW.