Tested my blacksmithing skills out today, seems like it will work ok! Not sure whether to put a latch over the crucible, what's the thoughts here!
In practice the crucible should cock over and jam in the ring for all but the most severe pouring angles. You can test that yourself so long as you have something soft on the ground to catch the crucible should it fall out. That said I did fit some tabs to my pouring shank.
The time when mine comes into play is after the pour I like to completely invert the crucible to let the last bits of metal drop out. But for tipping to 100 degrees or so from vertical it won’t be needed as the crucible won’t fall out. Nice robust build that should be (d/h)andy to use. Denis
The crucible in the picture is an A40, which I will use this weekend. For an A40 it would be easy to use just manually, but I will use the bale lift and jib crane as a test run for using the A120 which I will use in the next few months.
