toadfrog Posted October 3, 2010 Report Share Posted October 3, 2010 (edited) Well 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. Edited October 3, 2010 by toadfrog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Posted October 3, 2010 Report Share Posted October 3, 2010 I dont think it is nutty. I did the same thing to mine. Thanks for posting. I now know some of my ideas are not so far out there now. Frank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vodkaman Posted October 3, 2010 Report Share Posted October 3, 2010 I dont think it is nutty. I did the same thing to mine. Thanks for posting. I now know some of my ideas are not so far out there now. Frank Have to agree. good engineering solution. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bryanmc Posted October 3, 2010 Report Share Posted October 3, 2010 That's a great idea! I'm always fighting my pot since I don't have a ton of molds. It's fill a couple, wait for them to cool, demold, and then take the torch to the nozzle to get it flowing again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kajan Posted October 4, 2010 Report Share Posted October 4, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gone2long Posted October 4, 2010 Report Share Posted October 4, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Posted October 4, 2010 Report Share Posted October 4, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSC Posted October 4, 2010 Report Share Posted October 4, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vodkaman Posted October 5, 2010 Report Share Posted October 5, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gone2long Posted October 5, 2010 Report Share Posted October 5, 2010 If its anything like an induction hot plate it will need to be a ferrous metal, saw a show on it the other day a magnet must stick to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerworm Posted October 5, 2010 Report Share Posted October 5, 2010 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!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
