A straightforward immersion chiller. Had to use 1/4" (O.D.) copper instead of the 3/8" I had hoped to use because Home Depot only had 10' or 50' runs...and I didn't want to spend $50 on the copper. This is a 20' run of copper, we'll see how it does. I found some discounted (not sure why...) 3/8" at the Ace near us though so chiller #2 may be coming...
I had never used a torch before for soldering so the first few connection points where, plainly put, terrible. The picture on the right illustrates the atrociousness of that; I wasn't taking the flame off the connection point when I was pushing the solder in so I kept ending up with a "cold joint". Then I'd add more (stupid) solder and it'd run all over. It's a simple enough process...just take the flame off for a moment and test the metal to see if it's hot enough: the picture in the middle shows that the lessons were learned.
No comments:
Post a Comment