Bottom Pour Smelting Pot

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Lillard posted this 30 July 2013

Last week in my spare time I made a bottom pour smelting pot. It will hold just over 200 pounds I made most of it from left over steel from other projects. I have less than 75 dollars in it. Saturday a friend and I melted and poured W-W into ingots. When we finished we had 560 pounds of ingots. Not having to dip and pour the ingots was worth ever minute of time spent making the pot. I would recommend to anyone that pours a lot of ingots if you have the resources to make one to give it a try. Anyone else using a bottom pour pot for ingots? I can't get pictures to load from my computer I don't know what I am doing wrong. I am going to try again to load pictures.

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gunarea posted this 30 July 2013

Hey Lillard

Please try to load your pictures. I cast around two thousand projectiles per month and smelt three or four times a year. A bottom pour for smelting is of particular interest to me. The valve situation and moving ingot moulds has been my hurdle.

Roy

Shoot often, Shoot well

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Lillard posted this 30 July 2013

I tried several times last night to get the pictures up. I have not been where I could post pictures since I got a new computer about 6 months ago.

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Ringer posted this 30 July 2013

Hi:

Perhaps you can email them to someone who has the ability to post photos.

Ringer

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gunarea posted this 09 August 2013

Hey guys

I have seen photos of this bottom pour smelting pot and intend to modify my equipment to a bottom pour.Top dross will be so easy to keep segregated and most of my spill mess comes from ladle movement. No more cow flop lines in my ingots from pour interruptions. Pestering and perseverance allowed me to see the finished product. It is a no brainer for serious smelters to want this advantage.

The fall will see me smelting again on a large scale, but it will only be after I have my operation converted over to a bottom pour. My intention is to adapt what I have and modify my pot to a bottom pour. Those of you who smelt a couple hundred pounds at a time would be well advised to pursue enlightenment. Even small scale operations would benefit through less adulteration of many of the different oxides included during the dipping process.

Now please excuse me while I go get on the ass kicking machine for an hour. This is such a good idea I shoulda thought of decades ago. Thanks Recy.

Roy

Shoot often, Shoot well

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Wayne S posted this 10 August 2013

Details & pictures

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Lillard posted this 10 August 2013

I will email or txt the pictures to anyone that can post them on this site. I can not get them to load for some reason. Send me a P M with the contact info.

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vmwilson posted this 11 August 2013

I use photobucket.com for putting pictures in a post. Basically you upload your photo to the site. Then when you want to include that photo in a post you get that photo up on the site and click on the IMG option. Copy that link over to your post and when you look at the posted message that photo will appear. It is good to just leave that image permanently in your photobucket album. It's actually as simple to do as it sounds. Lots of websites do have an area that you can practice this sort of thing.

Mike

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