My new bottom pour pot

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Broke it in today by melting down 400 pounds of strange lead and squirts from the swaging presses, turned a bunch of scrap into twenty five 15 pound down rigger cannon balls........figure another 75 of them should get me through the season......:cool:

This pot is easy to control the flow on, even with over 200 pounds of molten lead in it, pouring 1 pound ingots is a breeze once you get used to the valve, this is going to make processing my other 5000 pounds a breeze............:dancingbanana:
 
I had the torch at the ready just incase as the spout is a good 5 inches long, to my surprise it never froze up, with the burner located right behind it I was thinking of cutting the wind shield to allow more heat out onto the spout......totally not required
 
Looks awesome! Is the valve a piece of threaded rod sharpened on the tip to mate with a seat on the bottom of the pot? I've been planning on making one of these to process about 1200 pounds of range scrap and I think I'm going to "borrow" your valve idea.
 
Camaroguy said:
Looks awesome! Is the valve a piece of threaded rod sharpened on the tip to mate with a seat on the bottom of the pot? I've been planning on making one of these to process about 1200 pounds of range scrap and I think I'm going to "borrow" your valve idea.
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that is exactly what it is, with a tab welded to the side of the pot and a threaded nut welded to that for the ready rod to thread in and out......
I'll have to snap a picture of that set up from the inside of the pot rather then the outside
 
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