Stainless Glasser

[maddogpearse]

IMO get some 4" copper and make the RC full copper.

No way!! Look at the thread title! Make a stainless one :D

[woodduck]

Best advice I can give is throw the hard solder in the bin and use soft. It's still a pain in the arse but only problem then is too much heat, don't let the ss turn black. All else fails either use ss iner tubes and make it bigger to compensate or make a copper one that slips inside a ss outer tube just for looks.

[Hardie355]

This worked for me when i soldered Mac's 3" flanges to copper on my boka,
I used boc 56t (i think) the highest silver content my boc had and was $60 bucks for three sticks. just flux it right up and keep the heat into the copper till it flows ( i was about 40mm away from the joint with oxy roughly 30 degrees towards the stainless) then just feather the stainless now and then and flux the rod when its dry. when the joint is full i like to "roll" it and feather it with heat and remove alot of the flux bubbles and neaten it up. I put it on a camping burner on low and let it cool till the solder goes black turned burner off and had solid joints and no Tinks

[Doubleuj]

Thanks guys, I'm putting it aside for now before I throw it at the wall. Think that yes, I got the stainless too hot, just didn't seem to flow until I did, when I got it going watch out, it flowed great, until...tink.
I'll probably end up getting a mate to tig up stainless pipes.
Might try a copper RC to get this thing going in the mean time.
Appreciate the replies :handgestures-thumbupleft:
WJ

[Doubleuj]

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Fuck yeah!!!!!

[hillzabilly]

Nice ta see ya got the better of the brazeing and soldering problems,purring like a kitten I hope ;-) F#*k YEAH :text-+1: .cheers hillzabilly

[Doubleuj]

Yeah, was so easy in the end,
Step 1: call FSD and buy a 4" RC
Step 2: sit back and enjoy the bubbles!!
Done a vinegar run and now on to a sac run
Plates loaded beautifully from top to bottom

[Doubleuj]

Gotta give a big thanks to Mac and sue for the RC, it's awesome and is the thing that got me over the line. Cheers guys :handgestures-thumbupleft:
As for my sac run, I should keep it aside for future cleans shouldn't I? Can I store it in....a plastic drum?

[Zak Griffin]

Awesome stuff mate! Good to see you're bubbling :happy-partydance:

[Professor Green]

Nice work Doubleuj . It's great looking rig.

Cheers,
Prof. Green.

[Doubleuj]

Bottom plate loading...loading...loading and then......BUBBLES :happy-partydance:

[Zak Griffin]

And you're off!

I love HOW it starts bubbling the instant the downcomer cup fills up.

[Doubleuj]

I love you

:shock: :wtf: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:
Way to come out of the closet mate but I'm not into dudes :teasing-nutkick:

[rumdidlydum]

:laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: predictive text moment :teasing-tease:

Nice work dj, you'll now wonder how you ever put up with the t500.
:music-deathmetal:

[bayshine]

After the footy grand final it was probably more like.....
iiiiiiiiii wuuuuuuvvvvee yooooooouuuuuuuu :obscene-drinkingdrunk: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :teasing-tease:

[bluc]

Great work uj :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[Doubleuj]

So I'd best fill you in with progress, or I should say fuck ups. :angry-banghead:
Set up last Friday to run 50L of wbab, spirit run. Got the note book out to take notes and everything.
Got up to temp, started to reflux nicely then wait, do I smell something?

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Fuck! I've tightened up the plates the damn glass has cut through the seal, and that's top quality 100% silicone TUPPERWARE baking sheet that I stole from the missus!!! And I had no more to make a new seal

Any, I walked away before I threw the whole thing in the creek :angry-banghead:

On Sunday I realised, why not just run with 3 plates, so I pulled off the top plate and tossed the damaged seal and started to put her back together, today's going to be a good day I thinks to myself.... Then crack :shock:

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F. U. C. K
How I didn't just fly kick this thing there and then I don't know 8-}
Instead, I jumped straight onto FSD and ordered 5 new 4" glasser sight glasses.
$35 each and I'll never have to worry about over tightening again.


Today a package arrived, thanks Sue and Mac :handgestures-thumbupleft: I get it into the kitchen and then realise there are no fragile stickers on it, :think: hmmm, even with Mrs macs famous wrapping ability I thought that's a risk, being glass....
Then once I unwrapped them I realised why she didn't need fragile stickers

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Holy crap these things are thick :laughing-rolling:
What awesome beautiful things, thanks again Mac and sue, top quality as ever. :happy-partydance:
No need for fragile stickers because if you dropped one of these nuggets you'd break the concrete :laughing-rolling:
I'll up load a pic of the assembled beast tomorrow

[aussiebrewer]

Hey wj, did you solder and braze the ss or weld?

[rumdidlydum]

Jelous of them glasses :mrgreen:
At least now your still is dam near indestructible 8-} :laughing-rolling:

[Doubleuj]

Hey wj, did you solder and braze the ss or weld?

I tried everything mate, I had this demented idea that I could do copper to stainless, despite
Macs, and others, advise that it is hard, (refer the start of this build thread).

Finally conceded that this is out of my pay grade and got some things welded(tigged) up and others new from FSD.
To be honest, I have spent more on this "adventure" than a new neutraliser from FSD, I have lost 12 months by trying to build this, that means 12 months of drinking shitty t500 essence shit. I love my girl now but would have saved myself the headache and bought if I had my time again.