My pot kit has arrived!

[Merlot]

Yeah it was steamed chicken spinach and ham roulade, got the recipe out of the paper yesterday. You gotta chuck one breast in the food processor with egg white, cream, garlic and tarragon to make a mousse. Then you beat the other breasts with a rolling pin to make em about 1cm thick, spread the mousse on with the spinach (i used cale cos I had it growing) and a bit of ham and roll it up in glad wrap like a sausage and simmer for about 15 mins. Looks really professional but easy as and very tasty too. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[Kimbo]

Its back there now :oops:

[Merlot]

Okay got home from work today and thought I'd do a strip of the dwwg. Charged the boiler with about 12.5L, set her up and let it rip. Took about an hour to get up to speed so I'm thinking I need a bigger burner. :sad:

Anyway I'm checking all the joins with my miirror and I found a leak! :shock: . It was on the top of the column at the 90... I knew those 2in joins were gonna be the one's to watch. I didn't want to stop so I run and grab the flour make a paste to seal it, all good I thought, collecting away still checking with mirror. After I collected about a litre I find another leak! :shock: . Tried the paste again.... not so good this time :sad: ABORT ABORT ABORT :angry-banghead:

Turned off the burner and I'm letting her cool down now. Looks I got some more soldering to do :sad:.

Now my question is do I have melt it off and clean it up first or can I just heat it up again and try to get a better seal?

Appreciate the help :oops:

Cheers

[kelbygreen]

I have had to redo a few now from mega noobness lol. But I found if you need to put more solder in when your doing the joint or after is to heat up below and above (more so below) the fitting and dont get the flame on the solder already there as it doesnt like it. If you heat around the solder then it should stay intact and melt and when its hot enough you should be able to put more solder into the joint.

[Merlot]

Thanks mate :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[kelbygreen]

no worries let me know how it goes. It is very handy trick to when you are doing a joint keep the flame under the fitting you soldering and just infront of where you are soldering as it will keep it flowing instead of it getting half way around and stops flowing.

its alot easier on bigger pipes I have found the 1/2" is by far the hardest and thats where I tried to start lol as its hard to heat the fitting while soldering so heating the pipe around it is the go.

As I say thats from my experience could be the total wrong way to do it but getting better results since. Also the flux wont all burn off if you heat the surrounding area not where the flux is (also found that after turning it black a few times).

[MacStill]

just heat it up again and try to get a better seal?

That is what I would do after a bit of flux wiped around the join :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[Merlot]

Thanks McStill I was just about to start another thread with this question as I thought ppl were getting sick of coming back to this one :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Cheers

[MacStill]

not at all mate, this is you're thread so you just ask away :handgestures-thumbupleft:

I've been out in the shed drinking with Linno & Caveman so only just seen your question :laughing-rolling:

[punchy21]

Okay got home from work today and thought I'd do a strip of the dwwg. Charged the boiler with about 12.5L, set her up and let it rip. Took about an hour to get up to speed so I'm thinking I need a bigger burner. :sad:

Anyway I'm checking all the joins with my miirror and I found a leak! :shock: . It was on the top of the column at the 90... I knew those 2in joins were gonna be the one's to watch. I didn't want to stop so I run and grab the flour make a paste to seal it, all good I thought, collecting away still checking with mirror. After I collected about a litre I find another leak! :shock: . Tried the paste again.... not so good this time :sad: ABORT ABORT ABORT :angry-banghead:

Turned off the burner and I'm letting her cool down now. Looks I got some more soldering to do :sad:.

Now my question is do I have melt it off and clean it up first or can I just heat it up again and try to get a better seal?

Appreciate the help :oops:

Cheers

Not having a go or anything but probably best to check for leaks during your cleaning run... Good find anyway... :handgestures-thumbupleft: Especially when using gas...

[Kimbo]

Hi Merlot, you could just heat it up and solder. no need to pull apart.

[Merlot]

Hey Punchy maybe you haven't read the rest of this thread. I did check in both the vinegar and alc cleaning runs, thoroughly I thought, even posted a pic of doing it, but I must have missed it :oops:
Thanks ppl, just tried soldering again... bit messy but I hope its ok :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Cheers

[googe]

Ive had that happen mate, soldered it one day and a few days later leaked like a sive!, best way ive found is the same as mac, brush it with flux when you redo it, i also brush it through the process, cleans the join up very nice. Good luck.

[Merlot]

Well I think it worked :-D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icaObBZOwWE&feature=youtu.be

cheers

[Linno]

Hey Merlot

good job building your McPot still mate :handgestures-thumbupleft: Good to see it up and running..

[Merlot]

Ran another strip tonight. A bit less than 2L per hour at the start slowed right down at the end. Started at about 70 abv and I took it down to about 25 ended up witth round 3L. It took 1 hour to get up to temp. How does that sound?

I think I need a new burner with more oomph... my brewer mate has a nasa burner, reckons. $160 from a camping shop. I'd rather not spend that much though, any ideas?

Cheers

[kelbygreen]

buy a adjustable reg it will have to be bought anyway if you go a bigger burner.

with a 3 ring burner and this reg http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/BOC-6000-LPG-Regulator-400-kPa-/271025324286

set on 25kpa I get 2 deg + a min with a stock cast iron 3 ring burner and 25lts of water. They say there ow pressure but no prob on this end as the italian spiral I have is HP and I run it on the 25kpa

The KPA is measure for me when its off and I can run both burners at the same time, but it reads 0kpa on the reg then when its shut off its back to 25kpa

[Urrazeb]

+1 kelby. U can pick up a 3 ring for about a hunge in wa, I know that's prob not ideal for u but that's what's gonna do the job.
I got a 150kpa reg and it does fine mate but my burner has an adjustable knob so not too sure about the 3 ring. 160 will get u a killer burner from a camping store tho mate and keep an eye out on gumtree etc they come up now and then for much less! :)

[Cane Toad]

Or you could make one of these burners for fuck all :handgestures-thumbupleft: I'm pretty sure there are a few getting around on the forum,just ask Crow what he thinks of his :laughing-rolling:
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[Cane Toad]

Or if you want to get real flash
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