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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cstan" data-source="post: 3940857" data-attributes="member: 52050"><p>When I started casting about 30 years ago I bought a Lyman 20 pound electric pot. The bottom pour spout would freeze up quite often so I drilled the hole out larger thinking that would help but just made it worse. I then bought an RCBS pot and it worked much better. Now I use the Lyman pot to process scrap lead for wheel weights and salvaged range bullets. I start by filing the pot with scrap and letting it melt down then fluxing and scraping the gunk off and repeating till the pot was full. I would then bottom pour into the ingot molds. The larger hole would fill the mold faster. I would do this till the lead was half way down then start the process over. That way it would not take so long for the scrap to melt and the ingots came out clean through bottom pour spout. This takes longer than other methods but I have cleaned many hundreds of pounds with good results with equipment that I have.</p></blockquote><p></p>