Hot plate use...

[Glaciers]

CW, is your setup on top of a bench? I'm just trying to figure out how high your pots are.
I'm dipping but I got a RCBS bottom pour that would be nice at a different height. Thinking about lowering the casting bench area about 4 to 6 inches and adding a riser or shelf (read "stout" shelf) for the RCBS. Like to sit on my stool and the LEE pots I use for dipping are just a little to high for comfort, and to see in.

 

[Dimner]

I'm with CW.... i really am no good at casting while sitting down. Just feels wrong. Like using a handsaw sitting down.

 

[Winelover]

The main reason I like my Black & Decker workmate casting arrangement is that it can be set up for two different heights, roughly 12" difference, with the folding legs. Fully extended for bottom pouring, folded/collapsed for ladle casting. I sit, on a folding patio type chair.

 

[hrpenley]

I've though about a hot plate, I use a piece of the heavy woven insulation they use in kiln construction to lay over the top of my pot, so when I set my mold on the pot I lay the insulation over the mold body and all, once I'm ready to cast I cast till the pots empty (I normally just alloy up enough for the number of slugs I want) I pretty much only do 1 style cast at a time so never really needed a hot plate to keep the mold hot. I usually have a problem with the mold getting too hot rather than too cool, If I need a little break I just set it back on top of the insulation on the pot- makes a nice safe holder

 

[Walks]

I've been sitting down to Cast since I got My 1st bottom pour pot in 1977.
With My back the way it is I even have to sit to mix alloy and pour ingots.
I don't know any other way to do it.
But I'll try a bit of Ladle Casting soon.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Use it again today. LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!

Video posted for any interested.

 

[Rockydoc]

Use it again today. LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!

Video posted for any interested.



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I saw powder coating, but what does that have to do with the subject of the thread, Hot Plate use? Talk about thread drift!
(I wanted to put a LOL emoji here but couldn't find one. So please note tongue in cheek here.)

 

[Brad]

Those HP look really Gould.

 

[Glaciers]

Man CW those orange bullets look like you upended you oatmeal into the paint powder.

 

[Mitty38]

X

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

 

[Mowgli Terry]

Ten bucks on Amazon. Works great.

 

[Mitty38]

Like golf balls, the little divets make them travel farther.

 

[fiver]

but they gotta rotate not spin for that to work.

 

[Winelover]

That ugly colored lipstick, makes them travel faster...................so as not to spoil the looks of a beautiful firearm.