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well its a start cant make my mind up shotgun or liebig but i did this today and messed about with a few other bits while i make my mind up . its going to be 2" thats all i have made my mind up on so far . i have bought a voltage control for the 500 . dont know if it works though have not plugged any of it in yet .

Looks like a shotgun to me :handgestures-thumbupleft: 2" pot is a good start. And having it with a modular shotgun you have a headstart on a bubbler.

Looks like a good start on your shotgun condenser, what length are you making her ??

dont know how long to make it will decide today , but probably in the intrest of keeping the weight down on the t500 lid i wont go to long i should think definitley no more than 400.
i have also made an adaptor to fit the colum to the lid .that was a bugger tapping threads into 3mm holes in stainless.

if i was making this collar again i would be making it out of brass ,much easier than stainless .i made it this way so that there is nothing going through the hole in the lid causing restrictions , this way it is the full 2" all the way through and there is very little weight in it .

changed my mind already and made another 2 ends plates for 4 tubes this time instead of 5 looks better to me less crowded more room for water to move around and less weight .

I have 6x 1/2" inners in my 2" PC.

More tubes = more efficient.

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More tubes= better cooling

ok ok you talked me into it how about this then . crikey dont think i can get many more in unless i put in a few 1/4 ones .

next question before i go cutting up pefectly good 2" copper tube how long should i make the thing remebering its only an a 2000w element boiler so no point making it bigger twice as big as it needs to be .

Yer but what if you build a bubbler later :think:
400 would be ok but 500mm and you can use it on your next upgrade :handgestures-thumbupleft: but yes watch the weight, someone with a t500 might be able to help here

texta wrote:if i was making this collar again i would be making it out of brass ,much easier than stainless .i made it this way so that there is nothing going through the hole in the lid causing restrictions , this way it is the full 2" all the way through and there is very little weight in it .

That is just pure genius right there!
I bought a spare lid for my boiler and tried TIG'ing a flange to it, but as I'm still learning to weld I botched it, so I now need to buy another lid and try to weld a stainless 3" flange onto it.

woodduck wrote:Yer but what if you build a bubbler later :think:
400 would be ok but 500mm and you can use it on your next upgrade :handgestures-thumbupleft: but yes watch the weight, someone with a t500 might be able to help here

I've hung a 2" stainless pot off the T500 boiler. The lid flexes a little but should handle it OK. You might want to consider a pelican style design to offset the weight otherwise it may topple over.

Cheers,
Prof. Green.

scottyd72 wrote:

texta wrote:if i was making this collar again i would be making it out of brass ,much easier than stainless .i made it this way so that there is nothing going through the hole in the lid causing restrictions , this way it is the full 2" all the way through and there is very little weight in it .

That is just pure genius right there!
I bought a spare lid for my boiler and tried TIG'ing a flange to it, but as I'm still learning to weld I botched it, so I now need to buy another lid and try to weld a stainless 3" flange onto it.

Just buy an adapter from mac

bluc wrote:

scottyd72 wrote:

texta wrote:if i was making this collar again i would be making it out of brass ,much easier than stainless .i made it this way so that there is nothing going through the hole in the lid causing restrictions , this way it is the full 2" all the way through and there is very little weight in it .

That is just pure genius right there!
I bought a spare lid for my boiler and tried TIG'ing a flange to it, but as I'm still learning to weld I botched it, so I now need to buy another lid and try to weld a stainless 3" flange onto it.

Just buy an adapter from mac

Are they 3"? I thought the T500 adaptors were only 2".

Sorry saw t500 lid and assumed 2" :whistle:

well what a plick of a job that was . soldering is not my calling . welding pretty good stick or mig , oxy brass brazing i get by but soldering nah . anyway its done just about to leak test it if it leaks it gets placed in the failure basket and i build a liebig .

Looks good mate, hope she's not a squirter :laughing-rolling:

unbebloodyleivible no leaks , BUT i still have to solder a reducer one end and join the shotgun to the swans/pelicans head the other end so still pleny of scope to develop a leak yet .