It looks scary... I hope you'll be very careful with it!
I definitely will be. The last thing I want to do is kill myself with it. I'll be doing incremental pressure increases and will see if I can do them from a distance. I plan on starting with 20-30 PSI and seeing if there are any leaks anywhere. From there, I'll do 5-10 PSI increases up to 65 or 70 PSI (max safe for the pot is 80 PSI) and see how it holds up. Most my casting should be in the 45-70 PSI range, depending on the casting material.
And so it begins-
Well, it had been going, but now I can finally do some good and proper casting and should be getting higher quality caps out of it. It will also let me make some acrylic pen blanks and stabilized blanks for cheaper too. I've been doing some pens for a while, but have avoided acrylic/resin due to cost.