RCBS Furnace what the heck is it?

[madcaster]

A friend won it off EBay,it almost looks like a Lyman 61-in a strange sorta way I guess.
NO heating apparatus though-but it is a bottom pour furnace.
Friend is wondering how to melt the lead-methinks a gas torch.:confused:
I saw one on Ebay but it's been a couple of years ago.
Thanks Ya'll,
Jeff.

[Dale53]

Jeff;
It is difficult to know just exactly which RCBS item you are talking about. Could you show us a picture?

Dale53

[44woody]

Jeff can you put a picture of it on so we can see what it looks like :castmine: 44Woody

[rmb721]

RCBS had a bottom pour pot that used a propane torch for heat. I think they still had it in the 1970's and maybe early 1980's.

[madcaster]

Fellas,I will try to get a picture when I see Ron again.Pretty intresting,but surpassed by today's electric pots...
I am not so great at posting photos,I still haven't done the Cramer #16H on the site benefit thread...

[klw]

Fellas,I will try to get a picture when I see Ron again.Pretty intresting,but surpassed by today's electric pots...
I am not so great at posting photos,I still haven't done the Cramer #16H on the site benefit thread...

http://www.antiquereloadingtools.org/
has pictures of several of the larger cramers. Those are, I think, 16H's.

[PatMarlin]

You mean one of these?

It's all I use and it's an awesome pot.

[dromia]

So how does it work heat wise?

How much alloy does it hold?

[PatMarlin]

I used a propane nozzle off one of those nozzles you can buy for sweating copper pipe, and clamped it to the stand. Aimed it at the bottom of the pot.

I have a 2 gal propane tank under the bench. It's pretty efficient, and one thing I like is I can lean my molds up againts the pot to pre-heat. I can even turn up he flame and smoke the cavities if I want.

Don't know how much lead it holds.

[madcaster]

PatMarlin,
That's IT!Thanks!

[Sundogg1911]

that's the coolest thing i've seen in a long time! What a great idea!
sometimes i use a little single burner colman stove and a small cast pot for preheating alloy. If I use 3 electric pots I pop a breaker :-(

[TAWILDCATT]

there was a "MERIT" melting pot that fit on a gas stove or such yrs ago.
its interesting as Lyman and Saeco were the same.same as RCBS and LYMAN are now.[smilie=1: :Fire:

[PatMarlin]

This pot's so old no one at RCBS had seen one.

A gunsmith friend of mine moved his shop from Sacramento to Oregon, and he had that stitting in a box with dusty old stock from who knew when.

It heats lead right to where you want it. I never had to use a thermometer, and have always poured awesome boolits with it. Ain't gonna wear out to soon neither. Maybe in the next 1000 years if you keep the rain off of it.. :mrgreen:

If you guys ever see one, I would snap it up pronto... :drinks:

[Ron]

Thanks for the photo Pat it reminded me that I had something like it in the shed. Had a look and found it. Yep, an RCBS bottom pour pot looking the worst for wear with a fine coating of rust. A friend gave it to me years ago when he gave away casting. I haven't used it, kept it just as a curio of the casting hobby. Photo attached.

[Sundogg1911]

Hey Ron,
PM me and Let me know if ya want'sta let that go. It may be a fun projecy for my glass bead cabinet :-D and I think those old pots are pretty cool. especiall when i'm already running 2 electric pots on one circuit. 3 would be pressing my luck

[Ron]

G'day Sundogg1911,
Sorry mate, I am going to hang onto it. Now that I have resurected it I may use it in combo with my lee pot. Anyway the cost of freight from Oz to PA would be prohibitive I would think.:drinks: :drinks:

[grumpy one]

I've seen a picture of one of those pots with a small propane torch (the kind directly attached to a small gas bottle) pointing at it. Can't remember where I saw it, but I think it was an official RCBS picture. Most likely Floodgate already has a framed copy.

It should be indestructible by the look of it - a multi-generation item, and just what we'll all be coveting when the greens shut down the national electricity grid. Anyone got a pedal-powered computer?

[PatMarlin]

It should be indestructible by the look of it - a multi-generation item, and just what we'll all be coveting when the greens shut down the national electricity grid. Anyone got a pedal-powered computer?

I'm all solar but no pedal power as yet.. :mrgreen: Thing is now I've got to get an electric pot for backup when the propane dissappears.

When I was over in Cambodia, those guys had a foot pump bellows blowing off a tank that held gas or diesel fuel, that pumped vapor up to a torch. A thatch bamboo hut Ruby Jeweler was making his jewelry with it. That would be cool for a dooms day flame for my RCBS lead pot.

I shoulda brought one of those home with me.. :mrgreen:

[floodgate]

grumpy:

Nope; I'm not stocked up on much RCBS "paper", though much of my reloading gear is green. I think Merit and Potter also made gas-heated or stove-top pots of this type back in the '40's, but this RCBS one was new to me.

floodgate

[shooter575]

I seem to recall seeing or hearing [CRS] about a lead pot that would fit into a wood cook stove.Just remove a lid and drop in.Cook your dinner and make boolets at the same time

[floodgate]

shooter:

That goes 'way back into the 1890's. Ideal came up with the little cast-iron pot (they still make it, or did until recently) and egg-shaped dipper, used with a stepped flange with a hole in the center the pot base fitted into and the steps would fit the various standard woodstove lid openings. Here (if "shrinkpicture" works as advertised) is a copy from an old leaflet packed with the early, fixed-block Ideal moulds:

floodgate

[scrapcan]

If anyone has one of the RCBS pots i would also be interested in purchasing or trades. I have wanted one for a long time, an friend has one that he will not part with. I think a person could fashion an oil burner and could use all kinds of stuff to heat the melt. Even some stuff that would not be to horrible to be around.

[Sundogg1911]

Ron,
But that would be a great excuse for me to go for a nice vacation :-)

[Ron]

Come on down, i'll meet you at the airport!!!