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Mrs Robo has decided another "must have" for her horse is a Hay Steamer so before she clicked "buy it now" for a few hundred quid I told her I'd look at building one.
After a bit of research I bought a large plastic storage box from B&Q
Dug out my plumbing box, Flux must be good as it has "corrosive" on the tin useless sidenote: the first union I joined in 1976 was the EETPU Electrical Electronic Telecommunications and Plumbing Union
I haven't done any pipe soldering for 30+ years so a bit of a refresher on Youtube and I was quite pleased with the result.
It fitted in the base of the trunk perfect
Some hydraulic pipe clamps to mount it.
I needed some mesh to keep the haynets off the steampipe and found a suitable piece on the scrap pile at the stable.
My trusty compound side cutters made short work of the mesh, not bad considering they must be 40 odd years old.
Cut mesh fitted fine.
The centre of the mesh needed support so a rummage through the "never throw anything away" pile found an old saucepan , cut the handle off, couple of bolts with penny washers later, sorted.
Drilled a few holes in the pipe to let the steam out.
After a bit of research I bought a large plastic storage box from B&Q
Dug out my plumbing box, Flux must be good as it has "corrosive" on the tin useless sidenote: the first union I joined in 1976 was the EETPU Electrical Electronic Telecommunications and Plumbing Union
I haven't done any pipe soldering for 30+ years so a bit of a refresher on Youtube and I was quite pleased with the result.
It fitted in the base of the trunk perfect
Some hydraulic pipe clamps to mount it.
I needed some mesh to keep the haynets off the steampipe and found a suitable piece on the scrap pile at the stable.
My trusty compound side cutters made short work of the mesh, not bad considering they must be 40 odd years old.
Cut mesh fitted fine.
The centre of the mesh needed support so a rummage through the "never throw anything away" pile found an old saucepan , cut the handle off, couple of bolts with penny washers later, sorted.
Drilled a few holes in the pipe to let the steam out.
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