Lead pot temperature control
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Lead pot temperature control
My Lee 4-20 lead pot has served me well but I needed better temperature control than it provides. I thought about an RCBS Pro-Melt but the profiteer at Midwayuk wants £574($918) for one so that was a non starter.
I decided to buy some bits and make my own controller and found it surprisingly easy. For about $50 in parts I now have an electronic temperature controller that controls to within +/- 1 degree F.
If anyone is interested in making one I posted a video about it on my You Tube channel here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwDgkrNMJQA
Perry Owens
I decided to buy some bits and make my own controller and found it surprisingly easy. For about $50 in parts I now have an electronic temperature controller that controls to within +/- 1 degree F.
If anyone is interested in making one I posted a video about it on my You Tube channel here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwDgkrNMJQA
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Re: Lead pot temperature control
Nice video.
I made mine so I can plug the pot into a receptacle on the PID box. I just turn the pot's therostat all the way up and plug it into my PID device. I have several pots with different alloys and can plug any one of them into my PID. I just need to remember to take my detector out of the pot before in cools off.
I made mine so I can plug the pot into a receptacle on the PID box. I just turn the pot's therostat all the way up and plug it into my PID device. I have several pots with different alloys and can plug any one of them into my PID. I just need to remember to take my detector out of the pot before in cools off.
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Re: Lead pot temperature control
If there were a forum as nice as leverguns that was for electronics tinkerers, I'd probably waste lots of time there, for sure...
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I see my next project for the reloading bench... Thanks Perry!!!
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Re: Lead pot temperature control
I liked the photo-interlude.
Thanks for posting the specific parts you used, too.
Cool stuff.
Thanks for posting the specific parts you used, too.
Cool stuff.
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Re: Lead pot temperature control
Wow Perry, that was a really good video. I have a 90 lb pot off a Magma casting machine that I have been wanting to get going for years. This will let me get it going though I may need more amperage for the huge heater in it. Should only need a bigger relay.
The interlude was a very nice touch. I've noticed Stevie Nicks doing some mop commercials for the U. S. television though they don't give her credit, just play one of her songs in the background. I think it was for a mop but then the commercials now days sometimes you can't tell what they are advertising.
The interlude was a very nice touch. I've noticed Stevie Nicks doing some mop commercials for the U. S. television though they don't give her credit, just play one of her songs in the background. I think it was for a mop but then the commercials now days sometimes you can't tell what they are advertising.
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Re: Lead pot temperature control
Just realised I used one of Kirk D's beautiful Winchester photos. Should have asked him first - sorry Kirk.AJMD429 wrote:I liked the photo-interlude.
Thanks for posting the specific parts you used, too.
Cool stuff.
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Re: Lead pot temperature control
+1 excellent.......AJMD429 wrote:I liked the photo-interlude.
Thanks for posting the specific parts you used, too.
Cool stuff.
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Re: Lead pot temperature control
Wonderful video production. It finally makes sense why and how to build a PID control. Along with this idea above it is a double bright thread.cjensen wrote:Nice video.
I made mine so I can plug the pot into a receptacle on the PID box. I just turn the pot's therostat all the way up and plug it into my PID device. I have several pots with different alloys and can plug any one of them into my PID. I just need to remember to take my detector out of the pot before in cools off.
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Great info and well done. I hope this makes it to
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