Patching a SS sink - can it be done?

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.