The new Pro Melt 2 bottom pour casting furnace from RCBS.
RCBS Pro Melt 2 Casting Furnace
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Four worthwhile improvements at least, but you would think they could have mounted the PID control square to the housing. The Pro-Melt I bought two years ago had a faulty thermostat out of the box. Rather than send me a whole new unit they sent a new thermostat but no pop rivets. I run it with a PID controller because the thermostat they supplied does a terrible job controlling temperature.
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The old style bimetal controllers do a pretty bad job of regulating temps. Their reaction time is horribly slow, and they're affected more by their environment than PID thermocouples are.
I built my own PID & rewired my Lyman pot for PID exclusively. Lyman MAG25 has the PID mounted forward, but it takes up a lot more bench space than my MAG20, or apparently the RCBS pot. Of course the plastic PID has to be quite a ways away from the heating element.
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I may have to finally get one, with the Midway sale going on it makes them more attractive.
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At least visibility is better on the bottom pour than it is on the LYMAN.
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