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Doing my plates to was heavy handed on the stainless touch of discolouration any way to polish it back up? Will the discolouration affect it?

Not that you will see it under the cap anyhow. So will it cause problems? Is the riser on one of macs 2" caps..

The heat discolouration is just a visual, won’t affect structure or pass any flavours. The stainless kitchen utensils that get left next to burners or on the bbq grill (bad habit I haven’t shaken yet) but I just chuck them in the dishwasher, then once clean, I use a soft cloth soaked in vinegar and if that doesn’t work, I use 1200 wet & dry with vinegar. Looks new afterwards.

Stainless pickle from boc or the like should sort it out :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Ok thanks fellas..

I like ta use Autosol metal polish (comes in a 75ml tooth paste like tube ,looks like it too)from the car parts place or bunnings for about $8,on stainless and other metal items,works a real well for me.cheers hillzabilly ;-)

Yea I had a look via google at pickling paste looks like nasty shite. May just leave them discoloured. :think:

I used stainless plate's with my 2inch caps ,and have found with use the bottom two plates have discoloured with use and the other two not so much,so I would not worry too much about it.cheers hillzabilly ;-)

Ok mine was from soldering not use :handgestures-thumbupleft: they are under cap anyhow so I am not concerened. Cheers hilzabilly.. first up in new year will be running it. Hopefully a build thread before then :handgestures-thumbupleft:

With out pics it never happened :)) ,was curiouse as to why ya had ta solder the riser's in ifn they are the FSD 2inch caps and riser's,wich are easily removed if necisary.cheers hillzabilly ;-)

Yea I have seen it mentioned the 2" caps can be non solder installed but I reakon the copper plate is to soft and wont give good seal so i soft soldered them in..
And a pic As per rule 142 of the site handbook :laughing-rolling:

Waiting on flux for sight glass install, and waiting on enough copper for another two plates..

Roger that,thats why I made my plates from stainless for strength over copper,but your idear will work fine I am sure with the soldered riser reinforceing the plate for strength and a good seal,and a thonged foot in the pic will get bonus points as well.cheers hillzabilly :handgestures-thumbupleft:

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Gotta do the branch on the deflag/blockhead section also. And buy some bits to finish it off..

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Def a thing of beuty :clap: my downcomers are j traps 20-22mm above plate 30 below 32 across 30 back up with store bought elbows :handgestures-thumbupleft: .. but they aint purdy like yours.. :oops: