Soldering question, but not distilling-related
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 12:53 pm
Hi all,
Hope this is ok to post here. Mods, please delete if not ok.
I'm new here and in the planning stage of my first pot still, but I also have another project that will require some form of soldering or brazing and I can see there is a lot of collective knowledge in this field here.
When I'm not drinking beer or rum, generally I'm drinking coffee. I also camp a lot. I want to make a stovetop steam wand out of an old moka pot. I could buy a Bellman but I'm not going to pay that much for something I already have 95% of the parts and know-how to make myself. (this is also why I homebrew, and hopefully soon distill, too!)
The device will just be the bottom half of a moka pot with the filter removed and a length of tube with a small ball valve and steam nozzle soldered to the inner spout of the top half. I've bought a 4 bar relief valve because I won't get enough steam pressure through the wand without triggering a lower pressure one.
My question is:
Would soft solder be strong enough to join this steam wand tube to the pot for this higher pressure application?
I have what I need for soft soldering, but if hard soldering/brazing is needed I'll just need to do a little extra planning to get access to a hotter torch and buy some hard rods.
cheers,
Jono.
Hope this is ok to post here. Mods, please delete if not ok.
I'm new here and in the planning stage of my first pot still, but I also have another project that will require some form of soldering or brazing and I can see there is a lot of collective knowledge in this field here.
When I'm not drinking beer or rum, generally I'm drinking coffee. I also camp a lot. I want to make a stovetop steam wand out of an old moka pot. I could buy a Bellman but I'm not going to pay that much for something I already have 95% of the parts and know-how to make myself. (this is also why I homebrew, and hopefully soon distill, too!)
The device will just be the bottom half of a moka pot with the filter removed and a length of tube with a small ball valve and steam nozzle soldered to the inner spout of the top half. I've bought a 4 bar relief valve because I won't get enough steam pressure through the wand without triggering a lower pressure one.
My question is:
Would soft solder be strong enough to join this steam wand tube to the pot for this higher pressure application?
I have what I need for soft soldering, but if hard soldering/brazing is needed I'll just need to do a little extra planning to get access to a hotter torch and buy some hard rods.
cheers,
Jono.