I was reading a post at TU and saw this posting by carolina mike about a Lure craft pressure pots and one he had purchased.
I thought this was some good info on that sounds like not only a bad product but a unsafe one too. So I'm re-posting it here for all to read. "I have bought one from them and I have built one myself. You do not want to buy one of these pots from LureCraft. First off, the pot isn't produced by LureCraft, it is just sold by them. They are very cheaply built, especially for the price they're charging. The gear motors that stir the plastic do not do a very good job, they are cheap and really stir liquid only. Once the plastic gets ready to pour it puts a strain on these motors, the pots are not sealed where the adjetator rod goes into the top of the pot, they continually leak air. I use teflon to try to seal it and the motor wasn't strong enough to turn the adjetator bar, the most I could get was 4 to 5 psi. It continually leaked, so the continuing circulation of air caused innacurate temperature reading. The thermal coupling is attatched to the heat band so you're only getting a read out on the band and not the plastic itself. Light colors were almost impossible to do without yellowing, also the valve itself is very cheap, you continually get freeze off and you have to keep unstopping the valve. They send you a small pair of needle nosed locking pliers to actually operate the valve, the steel pliers on a brass valve is really rough on the valve itself. I actually had to have a heated valve made out of stainless steel to solve some of the problems mentioned above. It took some time, a good welder, and a good machinist but I actually built one for around 900 bucks and it was ten times better than the one I purchased from LureCraft, I have actually shot molds with as much as 20 psi and it is a whole lot safer than the ones LureCraft sells. The air regulator is not rated to withstand the heat that is generated by the pot also, there is several safety issues with the LureCraft pot and I dont want to see anyone hurt and also I recieved no kind of operating instructions whatsoever. I was told that the heat control had a whole lot more functions than what I was using, I called the gentleman that made the pot and he told me he would send me the instructions, its been more than 7 years and after a couple of phone calls I still dont have those instructions. Sorry this is so long, but like I said, I dont want top see anyone hurt."
