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post-23230-093708700 1286127691_thumb.jpgWell its been a while since I posted another nutty Idea so here goes. If you use a presto pot you are well aquainted with boogers seting up in the nozzle valve. I hate that ! So I took apart a medium sized hot glue gun, took out the element , cut the small tip of flush with the main body. That gave me a hole large enough to tap out and screw in a brass pipe 1 1/2 '' long which I then attached the valve to. Afterwards I screwed in the opposite end an airline valve as a tip. This will allow your nozzle to be heated top and bottom. I could have gone into lenghty discussion on deminsions ect. but most of you guys are smarter than me and will probably improve on this. HERE'S The Pic.

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If you look up one of my posts in Soft plastics, Should find a pic of my pouring station. You will see I have lights to keep my nozzels heated, and I have no problems. Of Corse I live way down here against the GUlf of Mexico, not sure if its enough up in the Northern Tundra ;):)

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Not a bad idea at all I used a curling iron element to achieve the same thing. What I now want to look into is an induction coil.

I have an induction heater but you might have to make the adapter out of steel. Induction heaters work better with steel. I will have to try it on brass and see what happens. Frank

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I have an induction heater but you might have to make the adapter out of steel. Induction heaters work better with steel. I will have to try it on brass and see what happens. Frank

Let us know how it works out Frank

Great Thread

JSC

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It will work on any metal pan, just not as well as magnetic iron or steel. About 90% of the heat comes from inducing an electrical current into the pan via magnetic flux. The extra 10% of heating in a magnetic pan is to do with magnetic effects. I was reading about this a few days ago for another project.

Dave

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that is an ingenius idea but i would ask why? were you having problems? i have 6 of bears presto pots; well 3 are his 3 are ones i drilled out myself, and once i switched to a lighter walled ball valve and quit using a nipple fitting to attach them to the pot mine have never once even come close to clogging up; except when the electricity went out last winter, then the whole pot gummed up...LOL!!!

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