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|    Snag to Bob La Londe    |
|    Re: dripping lead pot and evaporust    |
|    25 Oct 25 21:25:01    |
      From: Snag_one@msn.com              On 10/25/2025 8:38 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:       > On 10/25/2025 6:12 PM, Snag wrote:       >> My $30 yard sale bottom pour lead pot drips . A lot . I've cleaned       >> up the stopper rod with no noticeable slowing . The bottom of the hole       >> has some crusty rust That I haven't been successful at removing . I       >> see 2 options - try to match the taper of the bottom of the hole       >> (drill bit isn't the same) with a dowel and lap it clean or try using       >> Evaporust to clean it up .       >> If anybody has other options I'd like to hear 'em . I'd really like       >> to use this over the dipper and pot , I've started casting balls and       >> bullets for some of my neighbors and this is faster and less spillage .       >       >       > Buy more molds and go so fast it doesn't matter?       >       >       > There are a lot of people that just put a catch pan under the spout. Its       > a never ending battle.       >               Yeah , well this one is dumping 4 bullets/balls worth in the time it       takes me to dump the mold . Gotta do something about it . If it was a       drop every 3 or 4 seconds I wouldn't be trying to fix it .       --       Snag        I appreciated foreign cultures more       when they stayed foreign ...              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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