what not to do

[frodo]

I had grand ideas, but my skill level was limited. I thought it was immense.
I guess you live and learn on this lil ole earth,
what I should have done was listened when asked WHY are you mixing stainless and copper.
any of ya'll remember who that was that asked that question?
I owe him a pull off my bottle.

I built my mega shotgun, up to, testing the tubes.
on one end, I flared the copper then flattened the flare

this gave me a NICE area to solder,
on this end, I had no leaks, everything was hunky dorey.

the other end, I could not flare, so decided to solder the ss to the copper
this did not wok out, not enough material to solider AND they were to close together
I would fix a pin hole, and another would pop up. it was like playing wack a mole at the fair.
SO, I have pulled the copper tubes, and have ordered 5/8'' od ss seamless pipe

I will be the first to say, It does not matter that I have over 30 years experience soldering copper.
i do not have 30 years experience soldering SS to copper

posting this to help out some other bone head

[Iowa]

I soldered my cape to the top of my SS stock pot. Not issues at all. Make sure you get the right liquid flux and solder.

[frodo]

thanks Iowa.

the issue i as having is the surface area , or lack their of.

[pfshine]

Dang you should have gave me a holler before ya tore it apart. The problem could have been alleviated with a soldering iron. Or a heated peice of rebar or something like that. In conjunction with a small swedge you would been golden.

[cranky]

I was thinking, solder a copper plate to the SS like Pyewaket did here
http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopi ... =2&t=39820
Then you can solder the tubes to the copper with no problem.

[frodo]

update, pulled the copper and bought some ss seamless 5/8'' od tubing 316


buddy of mine welded it for me.

i brought it home, filled it with water, and shot it with 50 psi air

let it sit for 12 hours with no signs of leakage.

next week, I need a bottle of argon,

i will have the end caps welded on. and the 1'' and 3/8''thread o-lets welded on the keg

it aint purdy, but it aint leaking,