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richas

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My chest freezer/fermentation chamber died so I had to get a new chamber. I am taking the opportunity to do some upgrades. Adding tri-clamp flanges to fermenters, dual stage temp controller etc. My welding sucks but it is getting better. When welding the first 4" flange the warping took me by surprise.

Used a pie plate with foam tape to create a smaller space for Argon purging.

Rich

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Yeah you have to go slow and skip around to keep from warping too much, other than that it looks great.

-G
 
Yeah you have to go slow and skip around to keep from warping too much, other than that it looks great.

-G

I was happily welding along on the first flange while, unbeknownst to me, the metal was warping. Ended up with about 1/4" of flange protruding inside.

I tacked about every inch on the second one. Going slow like you say and trying for good penetration to make it sanitary on the inside.

Perhaps the first one could be fixed up with a lot of grinding.

Rich
 
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