So apart from some grinding of the welds and re-welding the top piece from the RC to the PC and the nose of the PC, all the manufacturing is pretty much done. So, I couldn't resist the temptation to put it all together and sit it on the 45L stainless eyewash bottle I plan on using as an ageing vessel in the future, just to see how it looks. I know we have all seen a bubbler before but this one was half complete with a right forearm radial nerve problem(being right handed this sucked), through one nerve surgery and then all the welding whilst in a straight leg brace using my left foot on the pedal of the TIG, I'm sort of proud.
I will also post photos of the way I cut the holes and the tools I used to clean up the modules inside and the tools I will be using to polish it all up.....so the thread isn't finished just yet!!!
I plan to polish this to mirror finish as I know I will be wanting to polish it up later if I don't. But before I do that, I am going to vinager run, flush and sacraficial alcohol run the column to make sure it does not leak anywhere..then comes the polishing.......guess I need to start a thread for my boiler now...... Linny has offered up his boiler to help get me to clean and run this bubbler so I can get to polish it up but his boiler has a 3" ferrule....so I got a cool idea for a 4" to 3" reducer that I'll make so I can run it on his boiler. Photos to follow.
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