ORIGINAL: bigcountry
I am thinking of getting into bullet casting. Is the lee pot an ok pot? I really don't want to invest more than 150 dollars into it right now. I figured with molds, pot, sizer, lube, 150 is about right.
I usually hate lee, but thier molds look affordable too.
BC, the Lee Production (10 pounder) pot is OK. I bought mine in 1970 when I was stationed at Fort B. Harrison, IN., and after a number of years, the bottom-pour spout setup stopped working right. I screwed a small wood screw intothe spout to plug it up, removed the spout plug and handle setup, and have used it with a Lyman dipper ever since!
It melts the lead pretty fast (mine's a 110-volt)and gets hot enough to cast good bullets even with pure lead.
Obviously, they are plenty durable, as mine has been dragged from Indiana to Texas, to NY, to PA, and now back to NY, has been used to cast literally thousands of bullets, and it still works......
This is one Lee product that I can recommend w/o reservation.........
IF I ever need a new pot, it will be another Lee. But the 20 pounder next time.
(Before I got the Lee, I had a Lyman. One day the spout just broke off, and dumped moplten lead all over my carpet. Maybe I should not have been making bullets in my bedroom???)