I have the Lee Pro 4 20 Lb Furnace and I've cast maybe 2000 boolits with it. When I bought it, I knew it wasn't the greatest pot in the world but I'm pretty handy at troubleshooting and fixing things. I added a PID controller to better control melt temp's and it is working great. The pot itself worked OK for a while.
Now, I'm getting the much celebrated valve leak. It's not a drip, it's a full dump of the pot through the spout with unrestricted flow when least expected. What's happening is a failure of the flimsy and poorly designed adjustment screw to valve stem connection. This begs for a redesign (my brother recently bought a 220 VAC version and it has a new threaded valve stem design -- hummm). I'm tempted to swallow my pride and buy an RCBS (or similar) fix, but the spendthrift in me wants to make this work. If anyone has, I'm sure someone on this forum has developed a clever fix for the version of Lee pot that I have. So …
Does anyone have ideas about how to fix this situation?
Thanks in advance for your help!