Infrared thermometer

[MK1MICAH]

any one use one on these for casting or is everyone on the pot dial probe? thought it may be useful so you can split between mold temp and melt temp.

[GT27]

I use one from Harbor Freight,works great,I checked its accuracy with 2 different probe T's and it was the same.... GT27:castmine:

[MK1MICAH]

Sweet! I have one that we use to condem Catalitic Converters on Lamborghinis that need to read to 1100F-ish and figured it would work just fine. Wondered if anyone else used one.

Thanks!

[Remyvtr15]

Welll, coooollll I'll use mine! saves me 30-50$$$

[Hamish]

In many threads I have read of floating a penny in the melt to help it read the temp.

[snuffy]

Shooting an infrared thermometer at the shiny surface of the melt, causes it to reflect/detect wrong. You need something black in/on the lead. Like Hammish said, a penny or black steel washer will float and give you a target to get a better reading.

[wantoutofca]

^^^ this

It's all about emissivity. Shiny = bad.