Need help with a RCBS Pro melt

Glaciers

Glaciers

Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
Well I have a Pro Melt that I would like to rotate the pot inside the cabinet. 90 possibly 180 degrees. Ideally 90 degrees counter clockwise would be good. The idea is to work from the side of the pot with the temp control facing out. This will rotate the spout to the far side, which means I will have to drill a new hole for the spout. I don’t like working over the top of the bottom pour mechanism to flux and add ingots.
What got me started is I was looking at the thread “Jack Stand for Casting” and dannyd’s pictured Lyman set up looks just like what I want but with the spout in back. I also ordered a jack stand today as well.
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So I was going to drill out the 4 rivets, lift out the pot, drill a new spout hole, and drop back in with 4 short screws to replace the rivets.
Question is is the pot attached to anything or just nested in the coils? I’m hoping one of you guys has been inside of a pro melt before advise me.
 
fiver

fiver

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I would bet there is a heat band surrounding the pot.
you'll either have to spin the pot inside that [if it'll come out] or change the wires length.
 
Ian

Ian

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The only RCBS furnace I've been inside was their new Easy Melt dipper furnace. Here's what it looked like with the liner rivets drilled out an liner lifted free:20190422_221309.jpg

Nothing directional about it exceot the element at the bottom might interfere with your spout relocation. Punch out the rivet pins, drill the rivets, and see.
 
Glaciers

Glaciers

Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
Well I’ll drill out the rivets and see what’s what. Ian thanks for the picture, very helpful for me.

But first what prompted me to ask about the potential in changing the RCBS is the change in my casting bench.

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As you can see it’s crowded and being up against the wall makes it worse. Yeah I know, do I really need three pots? No I don’t, but what does that have to do with it. One with tin/ lead, one with 50/50 WW - pure, and the RCBS with COWW.

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Yesterday was clean up day. As you can see I’ve filled up a lot of valuable work space with valuable junk/stuff. So the plan is to install a second fan vented hood, relocate the books and other stuff, remove shelves and install range hood. I bought a hood with a little bit larger cfm fan, which will help. I’ll be moving the hot plate and shelf over as well. The area on the right is 1 foot wider and doesn’t have a wall and the stuff that always gets leaned against it, to crowd access.
The left hand area will get the the powder coat toaster oven on a shelf and the Lyman lube sizers mounted on the bench.
Currently I’m using the oven under a window with a fan in it, so the move will allow me to reclaim that space, and my window. Just because it’s a man cave, doesn’t mean it can’t have natural light.

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Kind of tight in there as you can see. I’ll post pictures when completed.
 
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Ian said:
I'm trying to figure out how you keep lead in thise furnaces with them mounted horizontally like that.
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Only works that way when the aurora borealis are flaring.
 
CZ93X62

CZ93X62

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In the extreme southern latitudes the molten metals pour out anyway. I saw this on Netflix a few nights back--"Bullet Casting In Southern Patagonia". In short, they can't. All cast bullets must be imported from nations north of the equator.
 
fiver

fiver

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no wonder they got problems down there.
right hand twist bullets and left hand twist rifles [shaking my head]

meh... 3 pots,, your a bit light... LOL
 
fiver

fiver

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you need real long handles and a second pot then you have to keep rotating everything real quick.
 
462

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John'll be in the original 48, in a while, and he won't have to worry about North Pole weirdness.
 
Glaciers

Glaciers

Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
Can’t avoid Seattle, got kids there and this year Christmas. Then on the lower Oregon for couple weeks. Mid January headed south and should pop out of the crazy coastal states to resume sanity
 
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
It's all too unfortunate what Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles have done to their respective states.

North Pole weirdness was referring to its magnetic shenanigans, not any of its cities or people.
 
Glaciers

Glaciers

Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
Well got quite a bit done towards the change up

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I’m making mounts for the lube sizers which will bolt down into flush threaded inserts in the bench top. The inserts will allow for quick change from one sizer to the other. I’m likening the move, having elbow room around the pots will be nice. Two range hoods should keep the powder coating and flux smoke on the move to the great out doors.
 
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