dartman
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I am looking for thoughts on using a pressure cooker for a pot.We have an old one here that I could try.It has a gauge om it and I would drill and tap for a air fitting. thoughts?:question:
pressure pot?
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Monty
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Not designed to hold the pressure needed for casting. Don't use it.
plantman
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I agree with Mannie. DON"T do it !! I remember as a young boy, that my mother had a pressure cooker fail. We had to clean up every square inch of the kitchen and dinning room, and then repaint both. They are not built for high pressure, the seals will not hold at that pressure, and there is no positive lock on the handle !! Jim S
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dartman
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Well that answers that.I guess I will be on the look out for a real pressure pot.Thanks for the info guys.
SDB777
Member
Most of the pressure cookers on the market are only made to handle about 15-25PSI. Not even close to get the amount of pressure needed to bother with.
Harbor Freight makes a good pressure pot(paint pot actually) that needs some new fitting put on in(and the paint tube cut off). Just understand, this pot isn't a Brinks pot and shouldn't be treated as one. Keep the pressures in it under 55-60 PSI and it will last....go over that and plan on spending a weekend fixing the area from the violence
Sears still making a paint pot? I know Bob uses one(I actually borrowed it) and it works great.
Brinks pots are the pots that everyone wants, and you will see that when you look at the price tags on them.
Scott (cooking some roast beef...get it) B
Harbor Freight makes a good pressure pot(paint pot actually) that needs some new fitting put on in(and the paint tube cut off). Just understand, this pot isn't a Brinks pot and shouldn't be treated as one. Keep the pressures in it under 55-60 PSI and it will last....go over that and plan on spending a weekend fixing the area from the violence
Sears still making a paint pot? I know Bob uses one(I actually borrowed it) and it works great.
Brinks pots are the pots that everyone wants, and you will see that when you look at the price tags on them.
Scott (cooking some roast beef...get it) B
dartman
Member
Thanks for the Idea.I was going to hf anyways this week.
What is your life worth to your children. I would not even recommend the HF. I have one which my SIL loanded me and will not even bother to pick up. That means neither one of us trust it. I have read enough to refuse to use it at more than 30 or 40 PSI. It probablly would be adequate for vacuum as this would only implode and NOT explode. Wait for a Binks or equal quality high end!
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dartman
Member
well allrighty then...maybe I wont look at HF.....
Monty
Group Buy Coordinator
Would you mind sharing what you read that made you come to this conclusion?
longbeard
Member
Been using a HF pot for almost a year now, around 52 lbs psi when i cast, i have no complaints with it.
SteveJ
Member
On the other hand, if you can set the cooker up in a protected area and film the destruction it just might make a cool youtube video. If you stand close enough to it we could nominate you for a Darwin award...
ElMostro
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I'd be interested too. I have been doing dome research on pressure pots in general (all brands) and for the life of me cannot find a single "documented" case of a "catastrophic pot failure", other thank lids coming off, which is pretty dangerous but at least in one of the 2 cases was not the pot's fault. See thread below:
http://www.penturners.org/forum/f18/casting-tank-explosion-102224/
Eugene
Talfalfa33
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Try looking at the Dayton pot. We use one at work and it runs at 90-110 psi for the paint we have to spray.