Long time no speak. I have an old SAECO pot that still functions sorta well. I just had an incident that has me stumped. I turned it on (in the workroom), came inside t do whatever, went back out 30 minutes later - and the pot had dumped 10 lbs of alloy! Carrumba. I cleaned the pot (GRUBBY! A surprise!), chucked up a wire brush in the hand drill and cleaned it some more. all nice, or so it seemed. Put a few ingots in, and it still leaked. I ran the torch on the spout while scraping up with a bent safety pin, and no improvement. I tried running a 45 bronze brush in manually to clean to spout area, and no improvement. Does ANYONE have a solution? Maybe someone here in Tucson known for their expertise in furnace repair? I'm open to suggestions. Boy, am I!