Help needed
Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2021 12:35 pm
Hi,
I have started building a column, and have really gone out of my comfort zone here. Enjoy figuring it out, but run into questions every 5 minutes. Have zero welding/metal shop skills, or manual skills of any kind for that matter, and therefore hope you can give me some advice.
After a little practice with solder (built an ugly looking parrot), I have now started on a shotgun condenser.
Just fitted it all together, and have also (after picture) soldered the internal 270 discs. This is to fit inside a 2" pipe, it is 550 mm long. However, there is also going to be a stainless ferrule at the end of this (not received yet), which means I have to leave at least 30-40 mm beyond the end plate. I would therefore prefer to solder the whole thing and slide it in, as it otherwise will be difficult with my fat fingers to get anything done in there. But then come the question:
How do I fit the inlet outlet piping (had 10 mm pipe in mind)? Whatever fitting will also stop the shown assembly from going in. Also, solder seems to not be like steel welding where you can create a quite strong fillet 90 deg, overlap contact is needed in general, I think. Any ideas?
I have started building a column, and have really gone out of my comfort zone here. Enjoy figuring it out, but run into questions every 5 minutes. Have zero welding/metal shop skills, or manual skills of any kind for that matter, and therefore hope you can give me some advice.
After a little practice with solder (built an ugly looking parrot), I have now started on a shotgun condenser.
Just fitted it all together, and have also (after picture) soldered the internal 270 discs. This is to fit inside a 2" pipe, it is 550 mm long. However, there is also going to be a stainless ferrule at the end of this (not received yet), which means I have to leave at least 30-40 mm beyond the end plate. I would therefore prefer to solder the whole thing and slide it in, as it otherwise will be difficult with my fat fingers to get anything done in there. But then come the question:
How do I fit the inlet outlet piping (had 10 mm pipe in mind)? Whatever fitting will also stop the shown assembly from going in. Also, solder seems to not be like steel welding where you can create a quite strong fillet 90 deg, overlap contact is needed in general, I think. Any ideas?