If you need pressure moisture tightness you are going to want to have machinist mill tube ends and plates flat if you take off say 075-100 thousands deep and .225 thousanths around edge of plate and have machinist predrill holes in cover plate you will have both a tight seal and drill guide for the tube drilling and tapping.
Content by Scott Typos by Siri > On May 18, 2017, at 4:34 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well that generated a lot of advice and thanks for it! > I think I might do it myself and go with a 1/2" hole depth and 1/4" > threaded depth. > I'll get some of that Aluminum Tap magic, some new taps and new drill > bits. > Good idea about drilling the end plates first and drilling thru to match. > Between the end plate and the tube is a gasket that needs to seal > pressure and moisture tight. That's why I used 5 per side. > > Will let you know how it turns out. > > Cheers, > > Corby > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
