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    Default Going to get back into pouring!!!


    Looking at getting back into pouring jigs again. Need to know your guys opinion on if you would rather use a production pot, melting hot pot 2, or a melting pot with ladle?

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    Hot pot for me because I only pour for personal use.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GreeneGiant18 View Post
    Looking at getting back into pouring jigs again. Need to know your guys opinion on if you would rather use a production pot, melting hot pot 2, or a melting pot with ladle?

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    Wow !

    A lot of factors enter that question,
    where cutting through the chase it becomes a personal preference.

    I personally have both, and for my own personal use at times just a soldering iron for the small stuff,

    a small dent in a JB weld mold with a slot for the jig hook, be surprised how many you can knock out in a little time.

    Good Luck on your decision

    billygee :rolleyes:

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    Billygee you are using a mold built completely out of JB Weld?

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    Quote Originally Posted by GreeneGiant18 View Post
    Billygee you are using a mold built completely out of JB Weld?
    GreenGiant

    took the JB High Temp putty formed a small rectangular square pushed a couple BB's to form a couple dents then used a single edged razor blade making the slots to hold the jig hook let it cure overnight, WA-LA

    place the jig hook in the slot and solder to desired weight for I can use up to a #4 jig hook and as small #8 with no problem

    I would show a PIC, as my son has it and seems to not be finding it's way back home
    Guess it's time to create another one !


    OH!, the High Temp Putty can withstand over 500*F deg when thoroughly cured

    Hope this Helps

    billygee :rolleyes:

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    I use a lee pot with the bottom pour. Makes things a lot easier but I pour 100s at a time. depends on what you are planning to do and all that I guess.

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    I have the lee bottom pour 20# pot, would buy it again!


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    I pour for myself and a few select friends and find the 10lb lee bottom pour able to do anything I ever tried. Had a 20 and it was new but just too big for my needs. DON"T use the pot, whichever one you buy, for anything but clean lead. Pain to clean em all the time.
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    I've had them all as well. For me, it really depended on what I was pouring. Again, I was doing production but I started out just doing a few for me and my buddies.

    When doing really small stuff (1/32, 1/16) I really prefered the bottom pour. I could just run it across the top of all the cavities, open the mold and pop the hole lot of them out (using a production mold so all cavities were the same size jigs). This left a really big sprue. Having the larger 20lb pot helped as I didn't need to constantly bust the sprue off in order to remelt.

    I also did it with a laddle pour but just felt, with the smaller jigs, I could do it a lot faster and much more efficiant with the bottom pour.
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