I am such a techno-heathen. After my C-19 shot yesterday I wanted to cast up a bunch of XCB's. I was going to use two pots, (older RCBS bottom pours). One had my latest blend, I call it my, "By Golly I'm gonna use up some of this Lino before I die alloy." This consists of ingots stamped WOW, which stands for "Wheel Old Weights" which would be anything I scrounged prior to the 21st Century, and Linotype in a one pound of lino to five pounds of WOW. Unfortunately, the second pot was over half full of a much softer blend designed to maybe expand from my .38-40 and .33 W.C.F. that I threw together last Fall before deer gun season. Then in a fit of political pique, I shot my deer with the politically incorrect option available to me, an AR-15 with a 7.62x39 upper with a jacketed bullet.
Anyway....my casting shack is an old garage with an old milk house spliced onto it. The electrical system is, well, primitive. There are two outlets and one of them is even a three prong! There's fuse box and the system is 15 amp fuses. The problem is I can't plug in both pots, the hot plate, and the lights without over taxing the system.
So I only used one pot with the lino blend in it. My technique is to flip the switch on the RCBS, huh, the switch didn't light up. Plug in the pot, works much better. Then the mould is laying on the hot plate and I go to the window and shoot a bank of targets. Oh looky, the red light is off on the RCBS pot switch. Go stir the melt, and the red light came back on. Wait few minutes, stir again, now the light stays off, ready to cast! So is the red light in the switch my PID?
Upshot was I made two runs and got 20 lbs. of XCB's yesterday. If my math is close that should be over 800 bullets. It's a start.
