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.