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FYI - I thought this might interest brewers who don't want to use weldless fittings on their pots or keggles and would prefer a welded solution. However, if you don't know how to weld you need to find a quality welder of stainless steel at a reasonable price and trust your precious pots to him.
A new fitting developed by Brewhardware in the US has just come out and is something of an intermediate solution which is silver soldered rather than welded. The key feature is that the fitting itself acts as its own mandrel to flare the hole opening prior to soldering. This flare provides a large surface area contact between the fitting and the pot for the silver solder to bond.

There's a video on how it works here:
And a recent thread on it at HomeBrewTalk here: http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/new-take-dimpling-silver-solder-bulkheads-511910/
A new fitting developed by Brewhardware in the US has just come out and is something of an intermediate solution which is silver soldered rather than welded. The key feature is that the fitting itself acts as its own mandrel to flare the hole opening prior to soldering. This flare provides a large surface area contact between the fitting and the pot for the silver solder to bond.

There's a video on how it works here:
And a recent thread on it at HomeBrewTalk here: http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/new-take-dimpling-silver-solder-bulkheads-511910/
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