Friend has a commercial kitchen. One of the sinks has developed one actual and one potential pin hole in the base.
How does one repair it?
Replacement is not an option because of (a) lack of funds and (b) the historic nature of the kitchen - don't ask!
Richard
If you can get at the back, then one of the plumber's epoxies.
SS can be TIG welded. Perhaps a mobile welder in your area could help?
Self-tapping screw in the hole?
Owain
================================== Google for: 'petropatch'.
Cic.
Thanks to all.
Mark is searching for a local - to him - stockist of
Araldite and a 2 pence piece. Use a bit of sticky tape to hold it in place until it sets.
car body fller underneath, and scrub it clean on the topside. However I would instantly fail that if I was a kitchen inspector and I spotted it.
If it's in commercial premises I'd have it done properly and get a patch welded on or get the whole lot replaced. Better than having a business closed down by the local authority inspectors over a relatively minor problem
TIG if you can (some chippie fitters do callouts) This will be strongest.
Low temperature solders. Silver solder (Easyflow etc.) is piss-easy on stainless and only needs a cheap gas torch. It's likely to be easier to fit a larger, clean-edged patch than to faff around with a hole. Any of the model engineering people will sell small quantities of the bits.
I wouldn't bother with epoxies - silver solder is too easy.
Passivate again afterwards, or it'll stain. Citric acid and web searching will do.
Alang coughed up some electrons that declared:
Agree. If this were a car and the patch was on the painted bodywork, I'd be looking at cutting out a square around the damaged area, forming a step in the edge, inserting a patch of steel flush and filling the join with weld. Grind the weld flat to finish.
I would have though that a stainless steel welding person could have made fairly short work of this and it would be a proper, hygienic and permanent repair.
Cheers
Tim
Absolutely. Anything else is a bodge.
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