casting thermometer

[bearhunter]

Google electronic pyrometers. There are several different and relatively cheap models out there. If you can't afford or the amount of melting you do doesn't warrant it, a pot with adjustable heat setting is the way to go.

They can be really good.

 

[44bear]

how does that work it only goes up too 450 degrees ..... hound13

Mine goes to 800 degrees

 

[Mikeyman]

I got my thermometer from Brownells if you are still looking...

 

[Mutt58]

They have Lyman casting thermometers at Wholesale Sports in Prince George BC.
I was there a couple days ago.
Mutt

 

[coreyd]

I was up at Epps a couple of weeks ago and they had 8-10 thermometers there. Some were $40 and some were $60 I believe but call and ask for yourself as I am not 100% sure.

 

[hound2013]

thanks for the help!!!!!!!! hound13

 

[10x]

Electric lead pot - build a PID controler for the temperature and it will keep the pot at a set temperature as well as give you alloy temp on a readout. Drop 6 200 grain bullets into the melt and watch the alloy temp drop 4 or 5 degrees.

in fact an inexpensive PID and a K thermocouple is far less expensive and more accurate than the Lyman bimetal thermometer.

 

[10x]

Get one of these - it has the old school thermometers beat in all ways
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/New-2-Channe...795?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e8ae255d3