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A couple of weeks ago I had a high temp salt pot develope a leak just at melting temp. The weld on the bottom cap had a pin hole develope after 4 years of usage. I grabed that hot pot with my forging tongs and lifted it out of the heat. It cooled so fast very little salts actually ran out once it was out of the heat(can't say the same for inside the heating forge) I was not ready to handle the pot of hot semi molton salts and it hardened inside the pot.
Upon examination the outside of the pot showed no heat erosion as it was 304 SS. So I cut the bottom inch of the pot in hope to reuse the pipe section.
The next job was to get 14 inches of hard salts out of a 4 inch ID pipe. Heating it up to melting point 1700F uncontained did not seem very safe. Hammer and chisel was given up after 5 min.
But 5 days in a 5 gal bucket of water disolved all the salt out of the tube. No effort at all.
Now all I have to do is get a better welder than me to weld a cap on it again.
Upon examination the outside of the pot showed no heat erosion as it was 304 SS. So I cut the bottom inch of the pot in hope to reuse the pipe section.
The next job was to get 14 inches of hard salts out of a 4 inch ID pipe. Heating it up to melting point 1700F uncontained did not seem very safe. Hammer and chisel was given up after 5 min.
But 5 days in a 5 gal bucket of water disolved all the salt out of the tube. No effort at all.
Now all I have to do is get a better welder than me to weld a cap on it again.
