On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:34:14 -0500, "Buerste"
wrote:

Can I use one of there for my lead pot and casting molds? I see them for as
little as $30 or do I have to spend more? Or should I get a contact
thermometer? Or try to find my thermocouple digital one?(buried in "The
Move")
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Just my 2 cents worth, but you appear to be going overboard.
People cast lead bullets for 100s of years by simply melting the
lead over a fire and pouring it in the molds. What do you expect
to gain by very precise temperature measurement/control of the
molten lead?


Unka George (George McDuffee)
...............................
The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author.
The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).