Leaky Lee pot creates beautiful works of art

[awaveritt]

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While casting up some 45acp boolits, my Lee pot started dripping and created these cute little guys in Ghillie suits. I call 'em Drippie Haids :smile:

Thinking I might market these little dudes. Course the feds would ban 'em since they contain lead.

Seriously, I know a lot of folks say it's normal, but mine has never dripped. Must have some crud in the spout. Anyways thought you might enjoy my beautiful art.

[PS Paul]

CUTE! Look, call 'em "vintage folk art" and start the flea bay bid war at $44.99 each!!

[Beau Cassidy]

Looks like short little North Korean Army men after we nuke them.

[shredder]

My lee pot produces some really cool drip art too. Fun isn't it?

[PS Paul]

Looks like short little North Korean Army men after we nuke them.

Now THAT is some funny stuff!! I just laughed out loud and my wife and daughter just looked at me as if I were nuts!! har har!!

[freebullet]

Welcome to the club.

[Buck-N-Rut]

Glad to know that I'm not the only one with a drippie pot.

[BBQJOE]

I had similar thoughts when mine made "art".
The next step, would be to cast them in acrylic, so that they are sealed, then attach an eyelet so they can be worn on a necklace.
Wimmings would love 'em.
(Tell them it's pure silver.)

[Cane_man]

wow, and think of all the haters and complainers of the Lee Drip-o-matic... they just dont get it

[phil3333]

looks like little trolls

[grampa243]

lol mine does that all the time :)

[fcvan]

I used to get drip art with my lee pots. Now, not so much. One pot was worse than the others as I had lost the counterweight on the valve rod operating handle. Keeping the pot clean cured the drips but I finally replaced the counter weight with .690 round ball. That worked pretty good but looks silly. Now I think I'm going to take a nasty black piece of 500 S&W brass and fill with lead then thread. Should make it appear to have more class.

[45-70 Chevroner]

I must not have much of an artistic nature in me. I have thrown 100's of those back in the pot. Some of them were real cool but I just could not see a use for them except to make more boolits out of them. They do look like a good sales gimmick though. Silver thingies sounds good, maybe silver troll thingies. I got those ideas from above smart, huh. :smile:

[fishin_bum]

I don't know if they are big enough for the warning you'll have to put on the bottom! WARNING: pure lead, do not eat, may cause craving to eat old paint, extreme heat may deform your thingie! There are probably at least 160,000,000 other warnings you would have to put on them.

[jdgabbard]

I see similar results with my Lee as well.

[Chilmonty]

I

While casting up some 45acp boolits, my Lee pot started dripping and created these cute little guys in Ghillie suits. I call 'em Drippie Haids :smile:

Thinking I might market these little dudes. Course the feds would ban 'em since they contain lead.

Seriously, I know a lot of folks say it's normal, but mine has never dripped. Must have some crud in the spout. Anyways thought you might enjoy my beautiful art.


Just place them in a jar of urine and the government will give you a couple million grant for "Artistic Development".
Sad but probably true. :roll:

[dakotashooter2]

Them appear to be baby ones...........Mine get much taller................

[EMC45]

Orcs.

[wvmanchu]

My Lee pot used to make those when it dripped, now it just flat out pours, anybody got a cure for this? Only bottom pour pot I have now and am tired of using the old cast iron pot and ladle.

[ACrowe25]

I'll take 3!

Or when I put my lee pot to use this weekend, I may make some of my very own... :)

[Shuz]

In case inquiring minds wanna know............Lyman 20 pound pots also have been known to creat exquisite drip art!

[luky-dude]

I to agree with Mr Cassidy

[Kraschenbirn]

Hey guys...Lee doesn't have a patent on 'artsy' bit the little critters from my Lyman are much more regular in shape...kinda like tinseled pinecones.

Bill

[wallenba]

I got a few like that. I kept one that dripped right on the divider of a Lee ingot mold. It looks just like a gunfighter, shoulders, two legs, a head, arms ready to draw. It's around here somewhere.

[rmatchell]

its all nice until you have to fire up the map torch up to get it free from the mold guide. Not that I have had to do this this week, or that I have ever walked away long enough to have this problem. I will say that lino runs thinner than I thought it would.

[Echd]

My Lee dripomatic suddenly stopped dripping :cry:

[RobS]

I've had these on a few occasions myself.........more so with the Lee 10 lbs. pot though as I made my own valve rod for the 20 lbs. pot.

[Arkansas Paul]

I must not have much of an artistic nature in me. I have thrown 100's of those back in the pot.

Wow. Just throwing money away. :)

[Jim Flinchbaugh]

Looks like the beginnings of a mutant chess set to me

[prs]

My masterpiece weighed in at around 20#. Gotta keep an eye on those things.

prs

[snappy]

They'd probably make for a pretty mean load in a blunderbuss!

[KCSO]

The first cure is to put a little lapping compound on the stem and lap it in with a drill. if this doesn't work then a sheet metal screw in the spout will!

[KCSO]

The first cure is to put a little lapping compound on the stem and lap it in with a drill. if this doesn't work then a sheet metal screw in the spout will!

[leadlunk2]

chessmen???

[dakotashooter2]

Put it on Ebay as vintage bullet mold art............... You should be able to get $300-$400 each for them...............

[swheeler]

I think if you check with Lloyd Smale he can tell you all about beautiful art work, burned his shop to the ground IIRC.

[Rick N Bama]

My Lee pot used to make those when it dripped, now it just flat out pours, anybody got a cure for this? Only bottom pour pot I have now and am tired of using the old cast iron pot and ladle.

I cured my leaking Lee pot by drilling & tapping the spout for an 8/32 stainless screw. It hasn't leaked a drop since:)

Rick

[DrCaveman]

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Good timing, I found this yesterday while I was busy cooking some Ivory soap down into lube. Maybe not as artistic as the little chessmen, but heck, I usually get about one or two of those each casting session. Maybe I should sell them too, we have a bustling home made crafts market here.

This is the first time it has fully emptied by accident. I was trying to run the alloy at a lower temp, and Ill be damned if I can get the lee pro 20-4 to pour at anything below 650. Usually wont even pour at 675 and barely at 700. I learned that one has to wait.... a long time... then a bunch longer... then some more... for alloy to cool significantly. I am beginning to understand why so many of you install PIDs on the furnaces

anyway I was away from the pot for about 30 minutes, staring and stirring my magic potion of "extreme" lube. That stuff takes forever to get hot! for me anyway

Came back and she was empty with this nice 15 pound ingot below. At least I got to see which of my tools cut it up the best... ended up using my wood splitting maul to bust it into fourths.

[Blammer]

I had a form one time that looked like the face of Mother Theresa!

of course I needed more boolits so back in the pot it went.

[Hyphenated]

I don't really cast any boolits...I just use my Lee pot for artwork. LOL

[rmatchell]

I remember the first time I fired up my lee 20 pound pot. I had just opened it up the night before for Christmas I loaded it up with as many of my reject boolits I could put my ingot mold under the spout and walked away. A half hour or so later I checked in on it to see that the pot was empty and all I could see was a handle sticking out from under the mess. Still was a good Christmas though.

[prs]

66821

Good timing, I found this yesterday while I was busy cooking some Ivory soap down into lube. Maybe not as artistic as the little chessmen, but heck, I usually get about one or two of those each casting session. Maybe I should sell them too, we have a bustling home made crafts market here.

This is the first time it has fully emptied by accident. I was trying to run the alloy at a lower temp, and Ill be damned if I can get the lee pro 20-4 to pour at anything below 650. Usually wont even pour at 675 and barely at 700. I learned that one has to wait.... a long time... then a bunch longer... then some more... for alloy to cool significantly. I am beginning to understand why so many of you install PIDs on the furnaces

anyway I was away from the pot for about 30 minutes, staring and stirring my magic potion of "extreme" lube. That stuff takes forever to get hot! for me anyway

Came back and she was empty with this nice 15 pound ingot below. At least I got to see which of my tools cut it up the best... ended up using my wood splitting maul to bust it into fourths.

Me thinks a PID set-up would bring Joy to you.

prs