Hey there bullet casters,
A question I would have for all of you pot users (Electric casting pots - really don't care to hear from "pot"users) out there.
HOW DO YOU KEEP THEM FROM PLUGGING UP!
I use WW for most of my casting and the experience I have had with electric - bottom pour pots has been anything but good.
Now I think I do a good job of fluxing and skimming my metal, making it a practice to melt the scrap and casting into ingots rather then melting scrap at the time of casting - BUT even with two melts and the skimming that goes with it the bottom pour was a PAIN!!!!!!!
Wrote to the NRA and their reply was that as long as I used WW I would continue to have the problem.
Anyway, the use of a bottom pour LADEL and a pot over the Colman is a great deal faster and NO problems with plugged up bottom pour furnaces!
Sat down with a caster who uses an electric bottom pour one time with the thought that two of us should be able to really get some production. NOT SO! Spent most of the time waiting.
When I am alone, I usually run 3 - 4 molds when casting - give me a good helper and production REALLY PICKS UP - depending on the outside temp. a 5th mold may even be employed.
If an electric bottom pour of the typical type could even begin to keep up, I would like to see/hear about it.
Again, the question as stated back a posting or so, except for the convenence why use an electric pot?
Keep em coming! :wink: