To shorten a long story as much as possible... I quit smoking for real a while back. I've smoked my whole life, off and on. So on the suggestion of others I have been putting my cigarette money aside and I planned on using that for a "treat".
Well I had honestly put it out of my mind when I was out in the garage beginning casting season again and I got frustrated with my tired old equipment. I've had my furnace and sizer for more than 20 years now and they were well used when I bought them.
Suddenly the light comes on... the computer fires up and looks around... and two boxes arrived yesterday from the big brown Santa. I ordered the Lyman 25 Mag furnace with the digital controls and the RCBS Lubamatic with the variable base warmer.
Boy oh boy am I in fat city now!
The luber will have to wait until my White Label order shows up, it's okay the boolits can pile up
I cleaned the Lyman furnace out as best I could and fired it up, ran a bit of scrap through it to clean it out thoroughly and then filled it up so it's ready for a fun day today.
That Lyman melting pot is huge! Twice (actually more) the size I'm used to, and the digital controls are beautiful, I'm in heaven. Although I will tell Lyman I think they missed the mark not putting an on/off switch on the silly thing. It would be simple engineering for them to add a switch that would let the fan run after turning it off to help cool things down to a certain point.
I took the advice of others and bought a little lift table from Amazon, glued some non-slip rubber on the bottom and took out the included mould guide.
I'll see you later, if you need me I'll be in the garage...