PC water fitting.JPG
PC water hole drilled.JPG
PC water connection soldered on .JPG
PC inlet after solder.JPG
PC outlet after solder.JPG
Time for solder.
As I mentioned before I worked a long time on the tubesheet fit and my tube holes were punched so I after hard soldering the water fittings and flanges, I soldered in the tube sheet and tubes all in one go. No slivers/shims (fillers) were required this time.
What is not shown in the photos is that I placed the tubesheets about 3/16" (~4.75mm) from each end.
Again after prepping all of the pieces I cut Staybrite® into short chunks and laid them along the edge of tube sheet. Fluxed then heated away from the joint and let the heat travel to the joint. It heated up much quicker than the RC joints and my solder got a little runny and I nearly scorched the flux. I used the flattened solder on the tubes here too. Flipped it end for end while still hot and soldered it up. Again it was all over in minutes.
What I didn't mention on the RC is that I soldered it in the vertical position......same with this one.
Watered up, purged air, pressured up to city water pressure ~80psi (~5.5 bar) ...............NO LEAKS!..very happy!
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