Welding syrup pan

[BeeRay Farms]

Figure this as good a place as any to ask. Looking to build a small syrup pan around a 24x33 size. I know the compartments in commercial pans are typically bent up, then together and then rivited/ soldered and or welded in place. This is done for strength and to prevent warping. If I was to bend up a pan myself and weld it though (or have done) would it make more sense just to bend up a bottom and say 4 sides out of 20 gauge material and just put dividers in place made from say 16 gauge material or so for strength?

This would save a bit of material and labor, anybody ever done it like this? Did it stay straight/ flat? Would they maybe just be better off tack welding ends in place and soldering the bottoms???

Thanks

[jmayerl]

That would certainly work fine. The pans that are bent up on themselves for the dividers are just much stronger if you were to burn it.

[Mark]

Figure this as good a place as any to ask. Looking to build a small syrup pan around a 24x33 size. I know the compartments in commercial pans are typically bent up, then together and then rivited/ soldered and or welded in place. This is done for strength and to prevent warping. If I was to bend up a pan myself and weld it though (or have done) would it make more sense just to bend up a bottom and say 4 sides out of 20 gauge material and just put dividers in place made from say 16 gauge material or so for strength?

This would save a bit of material and labor, anybody ever done it like this? Did it stay straight/ flat? Would they maybe just be better off tack welding ends in place and soldering the bottoms???

Thanks
They bend up the U sections and weld the tops of the dividers together because that is the easiest way to do it. It would be very hard to weld the divider to the bottom without warping.