Your correct John,  the small chunks of soldered can speed things up if you are filling
an empty pot.  On a partially filled pot you might get away with watching the heaters
and shutting them off when they start to just start to glow.

Gary Camac

Thorup, John wrote:

> BTW, I've heard that you can damage the heat elements by hot spotting them if bar
> solder
> is used to charge a dry pot and that pellets or shavings are
> recommended.
>

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