New keggle with wrong coupler - options?

I had my brother send 4 kegs to a welder to get converted to keggles. We're starting really basic and only putting a single port on all of them and put a pickup tube on the other side. As we grow into our setup, we'd add ports for volume / recirc / temp etc..

They came back, and the welds are beautiful. However, instead of using NPT Couplers, they used a half coupler.

What's are my options here? The only thing I can think of is getting a machinist to create me a nipple that doesn't tighten up until 1" in so that I can thread it all the way through.

If you specified full couplers then they messed up and did it wrong and need to do it right.

Just take the nipple and weld a dip tube to it.

Use it for a sight glass and get another coupler welded correctly for drain

cyberwollf said:

Use it for a sight glass and get another coupler welded correctly for drain

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I would do what cyberwolf suggested, and for the ones you don't want a sight glass use a plug, or make it a thermometer/thermowell. But since they f'ed up I would have them weld in 4 full couplings.

-G