How deep is a typical LEE melting pot?

[Anvil]

How deep is a typical LEE melting pot? When empty that is.

[freakshow10mm]

About 4 inches deep and 3¾ inches wide on my 20# pot. The spout hardware in the inside takes up a little room so you can't make ingots to drop in flush to the dimensions. I say keep the ingot to a 4 deep and 3-3½ wide chunk. Should drop in. If you get too wide, it will hang up on the spout release valve linkage.

The blank piece is what I'm referring to.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/freakshow10mm/Boolit%20Casting/DSC03165.jpg

[Anvil]

Thanks FS, that's exactly what I needed.

[Anvil]

FS, do muffin tin ingots moulds work just as good in the Lee pots?

[ANeat]

You can make the ingots a little longer than the pot is deep. As they melt they just slide in.

Just dont over fill it.

The regular muffin size fit just fine

[ISUSteve]

How deep?

It once told me the meaning of life.

[freakshow10mm]

FS, do muffin tin ingots moulds work just as good in the Lee pots?
Yes. I use them quite a bit. I put to together and set them in then two more like that, then heap a bunch on the. The ingots themselves work wonderfully, it's just that I haven't found a muffin pan that held up to the rigors of casting more than 200 pounds of lead at a sitting.

[cohutt]

i found a designer "Calaphon" anodized one that is built like a tank. very thick sheet to begin with, hasn't bent or warped at all (vs the generic minis which bend in the sunlight now). lead doesn't stick a bit.
Found it in TJ Max for $11, bought it after learning the hard way how to weld lead to a cheap coated muffin pan.

http://images1.hdpi.com/product_enlarged/CalphalonBakebw5012.JPG

[PsychoKnight]

I used keep either a backup pot as a pre-melt, or go back and forth between two identical pots so you don't have to wait much for temps to go back up everytime you add ingots. Lee pots are so cheap, isn't a big deal to have two of them. Almost doubled my rate of casting, back when I used to do it.