Thanks fellas :handgestures-thumbupleft: Great to get some feedback.
Sure is great getting copper for nix, I reckon I've spent over $100 on the 1/4 inch & 2 inch I've had to buy for this project so far. Add another 3-4 hunge on blowtorch, solder, flux, fittings, files, sand paper, grinder disks, dremel disks, flap wheels, :teasing-blah: :teasing-blah: and I could've had one of Mac's pots making the long trip across the Nullarbor :roll: but learning new skills is invaluable in my eyes. Especially if they are practical :handgestures-thumbupleft: I'll add it to my resume anyway lol.
Hmmm...25 tubes is a lot, not sure which way I'll go yet. I'm trying to do this build without asking any/many questions, because the info is all here and I reckon I could write a Ph.D. Thesis on all the stuff I've read both here and other distilling sites in the last 6 months :geek: but I'm always open to suggestions :think: Obviously being so many variations to how we can carry out our hobby there are always different opinions, but if anyone can say, for example, that a buttload of half inch tubes are better than a buttload of 3/4 inch tubes, then I'm all ears :silent: lol. Also if anyone can see that I am doing something terribly wrong (or even slightly!) then don't hesitate to yell out. Like I said before, I haven't done too much metal work in my time. :snooty: lol
Got a little done over the last 2 days, in between working night shift and junior footy :violin:
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Ready to clean & solder the inserts into the tees but I will flatten and solder the flange rings on to the inserts first as I've found they require a bit more heat than soldering tube into tube. Also I haven't tried soldering 4 inch yet, apart from top bend reducer, my torch is rated to 80mm so we'll see how it goes. Was fine on the 4-2 inch reducer so I reckon I'll be right :handgestures-thumbupleft:
After my last MacRum strip I removed my keg insulation and found a hard, sticky sap like ball on the top of the boiler, indicating a tiny pin hole leak. Wasn't much, maybe 5 cubic mm? So while I'm at work over the next few nights one of the (more competent :)) ) fitters might have an extra job, to weld in a 4 inch pipe with a ferrule on the end that I rescued from the scrap pile. :music-deathmetal:
I'm not totally sure, but I think that there may be a hydraulic press in the fitter's workshop, I'll bring my rings to work tomorrow & it will save me trying to squish them in my little old vice. Fingers crossed :pray:
That's about it for now, I think I'm not really that far away! Better be because I've got washes on and a NQR boiler & still combo :oops:
Happy stillin'
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