Skrimpy
Well-Known Member
For those of you that missed my thread, two links for reference...
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/help-welder-didnt-do-what-i-wanted-103809/
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/possible-solution-my-welding-problem-107638/
So I ground down the inside lip of the opening in one of my keggles with a dremmel and grinding stone bit. Then I went out and bought myself a pipe tap and got up the guts to give it a go on the gummed up threads. After some jiggling up/down, back/forth and clockwise/counter-clockwise, it worked like a charm. Opened the threads right up and the tap goes in and out all the way to the center of the coupler. Now I have another problem. I tried to fit a 1/2 inch copper nipple in and......
bzzzzz.....wrong answer Skrimp. Thanks for playing. We have some wonderful parting gifts for you.
It won't go. Can't even get the thing to go in a half turn before it gets too hard even to turn with a wrench. I know the copper nipple is still good b/c it still fits into the one weld the welder did right. Anyone got any ideas? Poor cleanup? Cross-threaded? Do I need to find another way to do this?
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/help-welder-didnt-do-what-i-wanted-103809/
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/possible-solution-my-welding-problem-107638/
So I ground down the inside lip of the opening in one of my keggles with a dremmel and grinding stone bit. Then I went out and bought myself a pipe tap and got up the guts to give it a go on the gummed up threads. After some jiggling up/down, back/forth and clockwise/counter-clockwise, it worked like a charm. Opened the threads right up and the tap goes in and out all the way to the center of the coupler. Now I have another problem. I tried to fit a 1/2 inch copper nipple in and......
bzzzzz.....wrong answer Skrimp. Thanks for playing. We have some wonderful parting gifts for you.
It won't go. Can't even get the thing to go in a half turn before it gets too hard even to turn with a wrench. I know the copper nipple is still good b/c it still fits into the one weld the welder did right. Anyone got any ideas? Poor cleanup? Cross-threaded? Do I need to find another way to do this?