It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This

[MN91311]

This morning I was getting studded snow tires installed on my minivan. This is the tire dealer where I have been getting wheelweights for about the last two years.

Within walking distance is our local Salvation Army store. So after having a black friday breakfast in a very crowded restaurant, I had some more time to kill waiting for the tires to be installed.

Wandering around sally's, I was looking for cast iron muffin tins for ingot molds. Found none of those, but looked down and saw a Lee 10# bottom pour thermostatic melter on the bottom shelf. The staff did not know what it was. They had it placed with the pots & pans. Snapped it up for the magnificent sum of $5.99.

Took it home, plugged it in, and it works fine. Spout does not even leak.

WW and a melter all on the same morning.

Life is good.

[grumble]

"...looked down and saw a Lee 10# bottom pour thermostatic melter on the bottom shelf. The staff did not know what it was. They had it placed with the pots & pans. Snapped it up for the magnificent sum of $5.99..."

Well now MN. If your luck is anything like mine, one of two things will happen:

a- next gun show or garage sale you go to, there's be a dozen of 'em for $2.50 each

or,

b- you'll find it's made of spare parts from three manufacturers.

<GGG>

Seriously, good buy. Happy casting.

[yammerschooner]

That is so cool it is almost sick. Time for a big ole [smilie=w:

[9.3X62AL]

With that kind of luck, you had no business at a tire shop--a casino would have been more appropriate, and possibly more lucrative.

Well done!

[Buckshot]

.............Ah don't worry. It'll start leaking before too long.

...............Buckshot

[Oldfeller]

Yup, its a LEE -- you can count on it screwing up somehow before too awful long.

Oldfeller

[bruce drake]

I got so tired of my LEE bottom pour leasking on me that I just pulled plug on it. I plugged the leaking orifice with a wood screw and removed the lifting pin. I now ladle pour and I think I make better bullets from it!

just my $.02 worth.

Bruce

[HTRN]

Wait, lemme get this straight, you guys PAY for your melting pots?! :shock:

I got my 100lb pot for free...


HTRN

[robertbank]

Hey great buy! Lee pots are supposed to leak, they are designed that way. If they weren't every one of them would not leak! How is that for logic?

I would replace mine with a RCBS but man are they expensive. For the price difference I am going to get a Lee 20# bottom pour. RCBS go for just under $500 Cdn up here while the Lee 20# goes for under $80, I can put up with a drip for that price difference.

Bob

[Newtire]

Our local Thrift Store yielded up a vibrating polisher with a whole box of media for $5.00 one day. Now, this is my Salvation Army Story & I'm going to somehow just "Let This One GO!"
I was out back delivering a truckload of stuff into the trailer & a lady pulls up. "Do you take Guns?" The guy tells her no and I'm trying to get her a card with my # on it but the guy tells us that it's real busy & to "Move it!" (meaning the cars out of the way). The lady took off and I never saw her again. I am reminded to count my blessings on deals that DID come my way. My Lee pot leaks too only not as bad as when I got it. It acts as a self-cleaning spigot. I like it alot but if I have to pay full retail for an RCBS, I'll go back to the Coleman.

[Four Fingers of Death]

Our local Thrift Store yielded up a vibrating polisher with a whole box of media for $5.00 one day. Now, this is my Salvation Army Story & I'm going to somehow just "Let This One GO!"
I was out back delivering a truckload of stuff into the trailer & a lady pulls up. "Do you take Guns?" The guy tells her no and I'm trying to get her a card with my # on it but the guy tells us that it's real busy & to "Move it!" (meaning the cars out of the way). The lady took off and I never saw her again. I am reminded to count my blessings on deals that DID come my way. My Lee pot leaks too only not as bad as when I got it. It acts as a self-cleaning spigot. I like it alot but if I have to pay full retail for an RCBS, I'll go back to the Coleman.


After lots of humming and haaring back in about 1988 I closed my eyes and shelled out for a Pro Melt. Cost me a bomb, but it was money well spent. It has already given me 17 odd years of good service and I'm 57 now, so I think it will see me out. Sometimes you have just gotta pony up and get on with it. I have sold a lot of rifles and pistols and a Dillon loading press in that time to feed kids, etc, but I never ever considered selling the Pro Melt. Its not the sort of thing you could sell easily anyway.