G'day Guy's,
Took a couple of pic's and the first is the perf plates all done, just need to do the final polish one the 2 I've made sofar and was getting in the swing of things when our new forum member arrived.
The down comer pipe is 3/4" and 15mm above the perf plate, I set up a crude jig so I could soft solder all 3 joints being the 3.4" to the perf plate, the base to the 1" thick wall pipe and the 1" pipe to the 3/4". I had to scribe a line 3.5mm smaller so the perf plate can sit inside the pipe and linished it down until I had a snug fit. I'll be putting a 1/2" strip of 4" cut down enough to be a snug fit and and thinking I have 2 ways to hold that said 4". Drill say 3 holes where it's going to sit then soft solder up the holes then the plate can sit ontop and be taken out for cleaning later or just peen just under where the 4" will sit so it can't fall down
Now as far as volume I have enough 4" left to use for the thumper and below is a pic of the impending thought
This will give 550mm to the centre of the lower site glass and should hold enough volume. I will use the thick wall 1" for the internals and that should prove a nice exercise in mating joints for soldering. I will need to get more 4" for the gin basket as that spare 4" I had went into making a flash boiler casing.
I do need to get a heap of tri clamps off Mac so will have to make sure that cabbage patch next week is picked so I will have enough to place the order. Still need to sort out from the base of the PC and to the parrot (yet to make) and the 4" to 2 " reducer for the keg mount. That 4" ferrule I have here will be for the boiler filling point so will arrange to go to my mates place to do the keg as my gensets don't like my caddy welder any more :crying-blue:
Tomorrow's job is getting the perf plates finished (only 2 to go :mrgreen: ) then get onto finishing the last 2 site glass mounts. Still got the RC to do and thinking of starting from scratch on that one as everything will be soft soldered a fresh start will be the way to go. As this build is still a ways off it will be good to get the report on Woodducks idea of using the baffle plate in the centre.
The yard arm has come around so will be in the pub.
Cheers Bryan