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In-Sink-Erator resurrection
awemawson:
So after a bit more fettling and furtling it was just a case of filling the channel with more Araldite fitting it, tightening it up and then getting the mess off my hands :clap:
awemawson:
I then left it for another 24 hours before re-assembling the unit.
I'll give it another while before trying it, just to make sure that the Araldite has fully cured.
.Now the big question - can Araldite take the heat. The packet say it's good for 80 deg C this will get close to (but not) 100 deg C - time only will tell :bugeye:
AdeV:
So... a couple of questions...
a) Is this the original one, or the ebay-dud that you've resurrected? I presume you gave it a bit of a test before dismantling? After all, sellers have been known to tell the odd porkie, maybe the heating element is shot...?
b) That brass band (no, not the one playing in the bandstand, the one around the tank...), is that compressing the two halves of the tank together? I'm just wondering if, rather than Araldite, you could have used a high-temperature mastick/rubber-type seal instead, thus no worries about the Araldite giving up due to temperature. Of course, if the brass channel is just there to hold the glue in place, then fair enuff, glue it must be.
Anyway... until today I thought an "In-sink-erator" was one of those mincing machines, ala an American "Garbage disposal" unit, so you just lobbed any old stuff down the sink - meal left-overs, unwanted rats, children... - and it minced them up & sent them off to the sewage company for them to scratch their heads over...
I've used an over-sink boiler before now (Heatrae Sadia Streamline machines - very nice, but heavy on the juice), and my old workshop I fitted an over-sink handwash unit - not the "instant" ones (which are rubbish and consume more gigawatts of electricity than Doc Brown's time machine), but a tanked variety. Mind you, that ate a few gigawatts as well...
awemawson:
Ade,
I resurrected the original, and as mentioned in the first post took no pictures - this details the re-build of the eBay one. The woman I bought it from assured me that it heats up but leaks - I've no reason to doubt her honesty as she declared the other faults, but you are right, I should have at least put a meter on the heating element - but I didn't !
The brass clamp is a tight fit on the flange, and the Araldite packed into it was just to ensure it bedded down firmly.
howsitwork?:
Andrew
care with the araldite. At higher temps it can denature. If you ever need to get it off something heat to about 200-300C and it turns to toffee and can be scraped off. Once heated it is much easier to remove.
As a sealant the high temp rubber type stuff you use on over doors works but has little physical strength ( not tested that statement as it's just sealing the glass in the door but sure grips glass well and that's upto 300C ).
Whats the tea like???
Ian
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