Does anyone know how the tri-clad (stainless-aluminum-stainless) kettle bottoms are usually constructed? Are they bonded together with something or just sandwiched?
I ask because I want to silver solder a bottom drain into my electric HLT. It is my old boil kettle (Megapot 1.2). I'm wondering if I take a hole saw to it, if I will be able to extract the outer stainless layer and the inner aluminum layer, leaving the inside stainless layer intact, so I can then dimple and silver solder a fitting into the inside layer. If they'll come apart easily I should have it made. If they're seriously bonded somehow, I might not be able to separate them.
Any ideas?
- Dave Disney
I ask because I want to silver solder a bottom drain into my electric HLT. It is my old boil kettle (Megapot 1.2). I'm wondering if I take a hole saw to it, if I will be able to extract the outer stainless layer and the inner aluminum layer, leaving the inside stainless layer intact, so I can then dimple and silver solder a fitting into the inside layer. If they'll come apart easily I should have it made. If they're seriously bonded somehow, I might not be able to separate them.
Any ideas?
- Dave Disney