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A fellow at a garage sale gave me another SS sink this weekend so I am half way towards my new pans now. I just have to get one more then figure out the drop tubes for at least one of them and I am away. I have a couple of ideas on them. One is to make only 6 drop tubes but to connect two together underneath with a cross tube so as to increase the surface area. Also for the drain hole I want to solder in a SS cup into the hole to increase the surface area. Will see how it goes if I can find one more sink as those resturant pans are non exsisitent around these parts except the shallow ones.
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Hey ken with the amount of taps you kept adding this past season get yourself a 2x6. I can just imagine how many you are gonna add next year. It all starts with 30 then 150 then 300 and like the energizer bunny it keeps going and going and going.:mrgreen:
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Riley what size Greenlee punch did you use. The copper pipe measures 1 and 1/8 inch around here. I almost bought a 1 inch punch off Ebay untill I stopped by the Quincaillerie and measured the copper pipe and found out how much over a inch it was.
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Huh?
Ken,
I'm with 3rdgen. The amount of taps your talk'in about might require more than steam table pans. You can make a drop tube out of a flat pan. You add stainless tubes horizontaly through the pan. All flame and gases go through this. Lots of boiling capacity. I think WF Mason makes these.
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I have no idea where a person could buy SS tubeing let alone anything else SS. I finally found a guy who could tell me where to even buy steel around here. I am basically trying to get by with what I can find around here. I grew up in the oilfeilds and metal and all that good stuff was all around me but in this part of the country the selection just dosn't exist.
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Ken do you have any scrap yards around you, if they exist there check with the transfer stations (local garbage dump) The usually have a metal recycling area where people drop off there junk to them metal. There are a million websites to get metal from also. Guess everything depends on the ole budget. Keep looking you will find the mother load and then the boss of the house will be mad cause of all the goodies filling up the garage.
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Well found another SS sink today so I can start on my updates. I still have to figure out how to cut the holes in the metal but if all else fails will drill them out and then ream to the right size afterward. I know you guys figure I am nuts but my Grandparents came from Penn and Iowa so that expalins it pretty easy I hope.
Now to find thin wall copper tubeing.
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I recall it being one inch even. Certainly it was a free but close fit around the OD. I then flared the copper 90 degrees for the solder joint.
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There is chance the arrestors are 1 inch even but the tubeing is 1 and 1/8 od. I will figure it out. I even found a chunk of aluminium today to make the die for flareing them.
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Just a dumb question here but why does it have to be an inch. Would it not be easier instead of searching all over maple country to find the copper pipe you are looking for and just go to the hardware store and by what size they have on the shelf. 1/2 inch ,3/4. I know you are thinking surface area but smaller pipe means more holes which means surface area. Get a 10 foot section of copper waterline and some caps. Cut, flare the top, drop in hole solder cap on and solder to the pan. Thin wall, thick wall whatever copper transfers heat very well and either one is gonna increase your evap rate. Ken I don't think you are stupid be proud man and do what you are capable of and enjoy the hell out of it.
