Hey guys long time no me, I've ended up with a Lee electric bottom pour furnace that I don't really have a use for, and I am kicking around the idea of making a shot dripper out of it. It seems like I can attach a small bit of aluminum plate or aluminum channel directly to the bottom of the pot and it should stay hot enough (because Lord knows the outside of the pot stays hot), and angle it out just long enough to clear the base and then set my little bucket of antifreeze next to it and I should be good to go.
Granted I won't be making a hundred pounds of shot in 10 minutes but for the next best thing to free, I think I'm willing to give it a go. After having read to the other shot dripper threads I think the only problem I might have is my orifice is pretty big by the standards of shot drippers. So the worst thing I might have to do is make up a small tray with two or three smaller holes intermediate between the main orifice and my quench.
Assuming it doesn't get too cold, I may have time enough to get this up and running this weekend. .If I do get this up and running I will try to post pictures and some fashion of after-action report.
These are only going to be for three gun practice loads so the shot size does not really have to be that consistent to knock over steel plates.
Does anybody any guess on what size of the shot I might be making just ripping it straight out of the orifice? I don't have any way of measuring how big the hole is other than I think I've used a 1/16 bit to clean it out when it was clogged with junk.