Heating element project

[Tex N Oz]

Here's 30 minutes into the pickling. You can see how it cleans up the stainless and removes the weld oxides.



After a quick rinse and light scrub. Still some crap on it but that will come off when it's passivated and polished.

 

[Tex N Oz]

I have done work for TEE in Coffs and been thru the factory

Very high quality and they specialise in doing custom designs.

They are expensive but there failure rate is nearly non existent

No affiliation ..etc..etc

http://thermalelectric.com.au/

They seem to have some good gear. I like they've done proper mechanical fittings on the electrics. The standard crimp fittings that most come with, I have to remove and properly fusion braze. It's the connection that seems to be another huge point of failure. My design is going to be epoxy encapsulated so I can't afford any bad connections.

 

[sp0rk]

I'll admit Thermal Electric are who I worked for, so I do have a bit of an association, but honestly their quality is second to none
We rarely if ever had elements come back when I worked there, usual causes were due to customers using the elements in conditions outside of what we'd recommended/what they'd been designed for
The head engineer is a second generation element manufacturer, they really know their business

They seem to have some good gear. I like they've done proper mechanical fittings on the electrics. The standard crimp fittings that most come with, I have to remove and properly fusion braze. It's the connection that seems to be another huge point of failure. My design is going to be epoxy encapsulated so I can't afford any bad connections.

Yep, most connections we did when I was there (8 years ago) were brazed or spot welded

 

[Tex N Oz]

I'll admit Thermal Electric are who I worked for, so I do have a bit of an association, but honestly their quality is second to none
We rarely if ever had elements come back when I worked there, usual causes were due to customers using the elements in conditions outside of what we'd recommended/what they'd been designed for
The head engineer is a second generation element manufacturer, they really know their business

Yep, most connections we did when I was there (8 years ago) were brazed or spot welded

Love their work.. Damned expensive though..... You do get what you pay for and I guess when it's a one off build, might as well go hard or go home.
I'll finish this one with what I've got and my next I might have a custom job done. I see their stock elements are $250+.. What do you think a custom job would cost?

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

If it uses stock sizes then prob not a lot more