Welding a Thermowell

[richas]

I have a Sankey keg that I would like to convert to a hot liquor tank. All this means to me is to add an outlet/valve, a thermowell, and a hole/lid at the top.

I am looking into thermowells. I want to weld one on, I have a TIG welder.

All the thermowells I find have threads, are there wells without that are more suitable for welding?

Thanks

Rich

 

[DakotaPrerunner]

On mine we just took the threads off with our lathe. I bet a local machine shop would be willing to do the same in exchange for some homebrew.

 

[OMJ]

You could probably get the threads off with a bench grinder as well it would just take forever.

Brewershardware.com has threadless thermowells but I think they are all rather long sizes.