unwritten wrote:Nice setup. Keep the TPW and CFW, run the Ginger Beer and feints.
Ravvin wrote:Thanks, all. This is the sort of info I was after.
Now I just have to find a valve suitable for fine control of the RC flow.
Ravvin wrote:When assembling the tees, be aware that there is a top and bottom to them. I didn't realise this and found some of my clamps were tight, but open much further than others.
If you look at the openings on the ends of the tees, you will see one has a recessed lip. This lip goes to the bottom, to allow the bubbler plate to fit in and still allow the tee to contact the black sealing ring. If you get it wrong, the tee clamps the bubbler plate to the black seal, but leaves a gap between the metal face of the tee and the seal. Also, your clamp will be open a lot more, with close to 40mm of thread showing instead of about 20mm.
Professor Green wrote:Ravvin wrote:When assembling the tees, be aware that there is a top and bottom to them. I didn't realise this and found some of my clamps were tight, but open much further than others.
If you look at the openings on the ends of the tees, you will see one has a recessed lip. This lip goes to the bottom, to allow the bubbler plate to fit in and still allow the tee to contact the black sealing ring. If you get it wrong, the tee clamps the bubbler plate to the black seal, but leaves a gap between the metal face of the tee and the seal. Also, your clamp will be open a lot more, with close to 40mm of thread showing instead of about 20mm.
That's the complete opposite of mine. I start off with a 100mm pipe section that has a recess at the top and the the lower plate sitting in it, then the 1st tee goes on that with a plate sitting in the recess at the top of the tee and so on.
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