My electric pot is a dipper not a bottom pour any more - 20 pound capacity - a lid would not work. I'll make sure I'm wearing a heavy cotton shirt or smock along with my heavy work apron from now on. I haven't been, came over that picture when going through my photobucket stuff looking for a non-related picture.
I do use my 60 to 80 pound pot for casting balls or bullet any more (I don't know what it weighs full) but do use it for melting WW - guess I should make a cover for it.
That's LOT of molten lead, but I used it for casting my river boat anchor years ago. I converted a white gas stove to use propane straight out of the 5, 10 or 20 pound bottles (non-regulated) - works great at 16 pounds pressure or whatever pounds that bottle happens to be producing, depending on the current temp.
It would melt a full BIG pot in 20 minutes when on full blast. With nothing over the burner, the flames would reach just about 3 feet. Warmed up the tent quickly, but produced too much water in cold weather. Nice stove, eh?
I had hard silver soldered a propane tank valve onto the white gas adjuster rod but shoved a bunch of 4 ought wool down the tube first. Works great for melting big quantities, until I retired it and bought a tiger torch wich is faster yet, but safer. I don't suggest anyone do this with a white gas stove - drove a gas fitter friend of mine nuts every time he heard it running (whooshing) in fishing camp - it was my only camp stove for a while.
Sometimes reminders such as this are needed for the elderly - HA!
