Anyone else bad a drippy roulette?

[Snafu12]

I tell myself not to.........
I still try to grab the glob to toss in the pot...........
And dam it it does drip on my finger.........
And dam if I do not play again..........
I loose more than I win

[Maven]

Wear welder's gloves and have a pair of pliers handy until you fix the drip. Lapping both the rod and its seat will help, but even if it does, continue to wear the gloves!

[geargnasher]

I quit playing that reindeer game once I figured out how to win.

Empty your pot, clean it with steel wool, lap the valve pintle and seat with fine valve-lapping compound, clean out the grit, and keep clean alloy in it from now on, it won't drip. Adding sprues back as you cast drags oxides to the bottom, and the oxide skin from sprues and boolits won't melt at casting temperatures so it migrates to the spout under the alloy column and fouls the works. Scraping the bottom with a stick will slough off ash which also gets trapped under the melt due to surface tension and migrates to the valve. If you keep junk from getting trapped UNDER the alloy where it can't float to the top, and the pintle fits the seat, it will seal.

Gear

[1911fan]

awesome info! I will try not to disturb the lead!