i would get someone that can weld to do it 6013 will be just fine , propane cyls despite there chunky appearance are only around 2mm thick , best practice is to weld a compensating plate on first "think big washer about 6mm thick prepared so that the pipe is being set into the countersunk hole ,that way you get fusion into both surfaces and can leave a bit more of a fillet weld safety of course should be seriousely taken on any used fuel vessel , should be wet steam cleaned and purged during welding glass fibre propane vessels are fairly common we had them run off a rig in denmark as we were using them for pre heat on welding ops not realy a good idea !
Same as mine - I've never heard of anything as high as 3 x pressure for testing anything, certainly pipework was always 1.5 X working pressure (Though it's been an age since I was involved in anything to do with that). I would have thought that testing stuff to 3 X would place completely unnecessary stresses on fittings, welds etc.
TBH it's what I'll do on a project . I will use a CO2 bottle which is tested for 300MPa (300bar ) , I'll drill a hole and weld an ½" NPT female fitting to it . Then I'll test it at 30 bar but it will work at maximum 10 bar I think that I have enough tolerance for mistakes (just little bit tolerance but always better than no tolerance at all)
Can’t you use the existing thread in the co2 bottle, then you avoid any stresses that arise from the welding. There would be no need to retest the bottle then. I’m wary of drilling & welding any pressure vessel if it can be avoided.
Stupid thread pitch It's metric on the bottle and I need NPT ½" but it's not a bad idea if my local machinist has ½" NPT tap . He should use a piece of M30 all thread and drill and tap an hole in the centre I should always drill a moisture release hole in the tank itself
Either drill and tap it or get someone that can weld properly to do it for you, if your weld fails that will come out like a bullet
Threads like this always remind me of the joke; A bloke jumps out an airplane, with no idea how a parachute worked. As he hurtling towards the ground, he sees another bloke sat on a gas oven... So he shouts over "Do you know anything about parachutes?" "NO!" came back to reply. "Do you know anything about Gas ovens?"
Memmeddu is also from Italy, hence the question. You may be neighbours !! (He has some good tools if you need to borrow any...)
No problem Exactly Well on this I would say something. Tools are like wives , no-one else than you can touch them .
Not a stupid suggestion at all - I did this with a full size empty O2 bottle years ago. The issue you got using an empty gas bottle is draining the condense off. I had to mount the O2 bottle "upside down" and had a collection of Galv pipes to make a manifold with a drain port at the bottom of it. None of this was ideal... Air receivers have ports at the top/middle for air inlets/outlets and at the bottom for condense draining for a reason.
thank you for your answers i appreciate your explanation and i agreed with you by the way the bottle i want to use for air compressore project 8BAR MAX for hobbies paint blow tires blow dust on my garage .... i couldnt find a fitting thread so thas why i i used it also i have a fire extinguisher (9kg) i couldnt finde the right thread maybe i can measur it and help me to find the right thread online s i can buy it..... thank you
First advice throw away that caliper It's hard to read because its cheap construction ,I used to have one of this but during technical school I've had to understand that's pointless , measurement instruments has to enough good because it's the base for every work and project . It seems to be ¾" or even a metric thread , you'll probably have a tap and die set from Lidl like I do . There's a thread pitch tool , which will say you the right thread The thread seems to be not tapered so I'd exclude NPT Strange but at least it's right hand so wouldn't be difficult to find Give me few minutes I'll search if we can figure out the exact thread pitch and if we can find a correct nipple on eBay Edit the gpl tank or maybe better say LPG since we are in this foreign forum is surely ¾" right hand so you should easily find it Buy both NPT and BSPT on eBay The other one is from the co2 fire extinguisher and it's surely an M30
grazie mille provero ad andare a bricoman e comprero questo https://www.bricoman.it/it/nipple-ridotto-ottone-cromo-1-2-x-3-4-12091788/ ma dovo vedere dopo se va perfetto con un raccordo f-f 1/2 di ghisa
i have tap and die set of parkside but i dont know if the are npt or bsp and i dont know which one to use for 1/4 or 3/8 .... i didn't study this stuff on the manuale they show hmjusy measurment are different .......
Non è permesso dalle regole del forum scrivere in italiano Translation Thank you so much , I'll try to get a ¾" to ½" reduction from Bricoman. I have to figure out if it fits the threads ,if it'll do I'll solve the problem with a cast iron female/female extension . My answer it's not allowed writing in Italian on the forum. I'm pretty confident it will work
