What got me started in this whole rabbit hole, was a itty bitty bottom pour pot. I would guess it held maybe 5lb at the most, cast iron base, even the switch the cord ran through had its own round cast iron base. Switch was the old round one like in gpa's barn. Heating element went bad. I thought I was into casting hard core at that point,
I must of had at least five molds!
What to do. A lee 10lb pot was ordered. I thought it was huge. I used it for several years. Worked like a champ. Moved to some bigger calibers, so I bought a 20lb pot.
I used it,I fought with it off and on, on a regular basis. I ran it for probably ten years or more.
One of my older shooting buddies health got bad and he decided to sell ALL of his treasures. So another shooting pard and I told him we wanted it all. Took us close to 2 years to finally get it all bought. He was gracious enough to let us buy as we could. Dropped several K on that deal. Tons of lead, dozens of molds,sizers,lubes,antimony, sizers,presses,primers, powder, jacketed bullets, tens of thousands of gas checks. One lead pot for casting and it was an RCBS.
So that is what I use a large majority of the time, I would say this one is a 90's model. He had worn one out and replaced most parts at least once.
I do now have a lee 10lb pot. IMHO it is in ways better than the 20. I use it for 22's and some 32's.
I really need to step up and get a PID and quit messing around. I had a chance a while back to run one and I was quite impressed with it.
FYI, they all drip at some point. Now that I am dangerous and have a lathe, I have plans for fixing my RCBS.