Gentlemen: where is the best price on the RCBS Promelt, quit casting about 25 years ago and sold the Saeco and Lyman pots, now need to buy new as I have retired ans need the extra work anyway.
Clarence
Gentlemen: where is the best price on the RCBS Promelt, quit casting about 25 years ago and sold the Saeco and Lyman pots, now need to buy new as I have retired ans need the extra work anyway.
Clarence
Last edited by cdupuy; 12-17-2009 at 11:49 PM. Reason: correct spelling
I don't know if this is the BEST price, but it is a discounted price. If you haven't seen these priced lately, you had better sit down first:
http://www.midwayusa.com/browse/Brow...=9315***685***
I DO believe that they are the "best of the best" without getting REALLY pricy. The best value is a Lee Pro 20 pot:
http://www.midwayusa.com/browse/Brow...=9315***685***
Dale53
Midsouth catalog lists the RCBS furnace for about $10.00 less and their shipping is lower price.
Ken
What are the advantages of the RCBS pot compared to the Lee?? I have a Lee 10lbs pot i bought used. But I use three 3-cavs simoultaniousley so I add ingots all the time and am considering buying a larger pot. The thing is that the RCBS pot is about $700 (no I'm not kidding) and the Lee is about $200!!
So why buy the expensive one???
The artist formerly known as Wiking
I don't know about their casting pots, but all of my other Lee stuff is top notch. The only exception is I like my Lyman scale better. My low dollar perfect powder measurer out performs my Lyman hands down on light pistol loads. Some of the tools do fell cheap, and you can see where they "cut the fat" to keep the price down. To me, it just has to work, it doesn't have to be pretty.
Gunslinger, I'll bet that you could build your own pot for a lot less than $200, much less $700! Before I bought my RCBS, I contemplated building a casting pot. The prices that I collected would have been a little over the price of a Lee. Decided that the RCBS would be better due to the warranty that they have provided to many over many years.
On the Lee, the temperature seems to fluctuate a lot more than the RCBS. I use an older Lee to feed smelted lead into my RCBS.
EW
This site has the lowest price I have found for most RCBS products.
http://www.a2zoutdoors.com/rcbs_bull..._equipment.htm
gunslinger - I seem to recall you are good as making things so consider building your own. If not, then the Lee 20# is cheaper and those are what I have been using (thee of them) for many years. I do not find dripping to be a problem, its does not happen unless the spout is dirty. I tried the expensive ones once, didn't see any difference in performance. Sold them. Just my opinion. I use two Lee's for different alloys, and a third for "smelting" small quantities.
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I've owned and run my RCBS Promelt now for 30 years with no problems. Does that say anything about quality?
Joe
Google RCBS ProMelt - Have been looking for a second one - had mine going since 1986 and the sheet metal that holds the pot has about rusted away - Wish I had taken better care of it - anyway found one new for $269.95.
Hope this helps,
Jerry
I got a used one (like new) on Ebay for $ 157.00 a coule of years ago.
Dunno if the newer RCBS pots are steel, but this could never happen to a lee;
The temp DOES vary a LOT! on a lee. The thermostat is in the tower, it really ONLY reads air temp inside the tower, not direct contact with the pot or lead. Which is why I hooked up a PID thermostat to my pro 20. No more worries about temp control!Google RCBS ProMelt - Have been looking for a second one - had mine going since 1986 and the sheet metal that holds the pot has about rusted away -
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=49410
The Lee could just simply stop melting lead on about pound # 21 from brand new, requiring a high speed trip into the basement wall. I wouldn't have been so mad if it wasn't the second one I had bought. I spose I should have taken them up on their 2 year warrenty, but I just bought a Lyman instead.
What's the big cost GS? Shipping? I just checked Midway:
http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct...tNumber=645810
and the price on a Lee 20# pot is only about $70. Wonder what it would cost to have someone buy it in the states and mail it to you or is that LEGAL in Denmark?
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