dans.brew wrote:Good on ya for having a crack at making your own plates... i was in the same boat, trying to save a bit of coin too. You can always buy some 5 star plates down the track if funds are available.
I found i could only fit 1 seal between my tees before it was too fat to get tri clamp done up. My plates are sorta counter sunk down in the tee sitting on the curve of my easy flanges. Seems to work really good, never had any problem getting a good seal.
woodduck wrote:I made my own plates out of flattened pipe for the glass duck and you wouldn't know by looking at them, they'll be fine.
I'm not 100% sure because I dont have a modular still but I recon 2 seals and the plate will be too thick. By the sounds of it the seal sits around the outside of the plate and is sandwiched between the two flanges. That means the seal needs to be thinker than the plate so it compresses enough to seal without the flanges bottoming out on the plate. Remember the plate needs to seal as well or it won't hold a bath. So your plate needs to be slightly larger than the inside diameter of the column. I'm happy to be corrected on this one.
Good luck :handgestures-thumbupleft:
db1979 wrote:I just soldered my plates in.
db1979 wrote:You'll get more holes on your plate too if your downcomer doesn't extend down to the plate below. Put a cap on the bottom of it and the gap between plate above and the top of the cap can be as little as 5 mm.
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