Looking for a custom flat pan

[ericjeeper]

Looking for a custom built pan. 27x60x8

[team40]

contact bill mason at http://www.wfmasonwelding.com/home.html he can build just about anything

[be3169]

Smoky Lake also does custom flat pans. Just received 2x5 flat pans from his shop - http://www.smokylakemaple.com/

[maple flats]

Thor also makes any custom pan you want and at a super price. I just had them weld a 3x3 syrup and a 3x5 flue pan both to my specs. They did a great job and less than 30% of what Leader wanted.

[ericjeeper]

Bill Mason has quoted me the best price so far.. It is the shipping that kills me..

[mapleack]

If you want to save on shipping the closest to you would be Sunrise Metal Shop.

[team40]

if you want quality work go with bill shipping might be alot but you will not be disapointed with his work he is make me a
evap as we speak

[ericjeeper]

I ordered a pan yesterday from a local sheet metal shop. 338 out the door.
Thanks for all the replies. Now to build a new 275 gallon barrel arch.. My son suggested today that we run two setups to increase production. I said sure why not..

[maple flats]

If you still can, consider changing the height of the sides, with a good boil you will lose some over the sides as the sap jumps up. I had my new syrup pan (flat bottom) made with 15" sides. My old Leader syrup pan had 12" and a hard boil would lose just a little at times, none detected at others. The sides on my flue pan are 24".

[ericjeeper]

I have been using a pan with six inch sides for 8 years. I do not think I have ever had any boil over?

[maple flats]

I don't mean that it fills the pan and over flows, but rather that the hard boil shoots some out. If you think you are losing none, try this: Get a hard boil going and place a sheet of anything that will show as a mist lands on it, ie glass,plexi glass, lexon, even a very shinny cookie sheet. Let it set directly beside the side of your pan. You will get indications of the amount lost. After 15 minutes, study the surface. You will see more than expected in most cases. The use of deflectors to run it back in helps but even my 15" pan will likely lose a little. The real issue is to try to keep the loss to an absolute minimum. You might not lose much, but to me any loss that can be realistically avoided is too much. The loss generally comes in the form of little droplets that geyser up and out.

[Murphy's Law]

I'm planning to have a pan built soon. This is new to me as I have only used S.S. steam table food pans in the past but I would like to kick my little operation up a notch for 2013. I think the size will be 24"x36" and I don't know how deep.

Can you folks make recommendations for pan depth and partition dimensions? I was planning to make it 8" deep with four 6" wide serpentine flow channels.

Comments and suggestions are welcome. Thanks.

[tonka]

Just goto your local welding shop, I am planning on having a couple pans made, 2 pans that are 21 inches wide by 6 foot long and 6 inches deep and 2 -2 foot tall by 1 foot wide by 1 foot long, for the stainless (16 ga.), bending and cutting is about $550 and I will be doing the welding myself.