it's pete for cheap homesteading here and I'm in my garage and I'm going to
make some drains for my sap pants it's kind of scary drilling holes in
perfectly good pans but it is kind of necessary so I went to Home Depot and I
got a bunch of trinkets and we're gonna make this happen so let's go okay so
basically I went to Home Depot and I got three tops one for each of my pants
and I got it it is lead-free its lead-free surprisingly a lot of brass
fittings have led them which blows my mind because most surprises used for
water and a lot of kind of stuff so anybody's get lead-free brass so I got
some straight pieces and my theory on the whole thing is I am gonna try to
make a bulkhead fitting so basically I am going to try to sandwich the pan and
the nut and some teflon tape to try to make a good seal around here and I think
if it ever does leak a little bit of this sock coming out eventually will
plug any minut hole but I prefer not to have any leak at all right away so so
let's go and try this okay so I have one of these nuts and I may have to grind it
down so that it'll bottom out on my taper really nice because I wanted a
really good surface here to a nice solid surface so it gets seal really really
good and force the the pan nice and tight and solid when you clamp it
together so that's what I'm trying to do
we're gonna try to start off with a fairly small bit work her way up and
then we'll use our big drill bit a hole saw would have worked to perfect but I
kind of messed up the dimensions and I don't have a hole saw and I do want to
get going with us so if there's any doubt that I'm gonna mess this up I am
gonna do stuff this is stainless steel and stainless steel is hard to drill all
I have is high speed drill bits at home except my big one which is cobalt so I'm
kind of hoping I can at least get my pilot's in with this so make sure you
wear your safety glasses and we're gonna try this well I was a little bit higher
but a little bit higher is better than too low now we are going to try the big
the big bit and just see what happens so
it's not liking it this far I tell you that there we go okay it could have been
worse definitely could have been worse that's
not so bad I'm gonna grind off the end flat and we're going to try to clean up
this whole little bit and see if we can fit in our top okay so we're gonna try
to drain this off of the damage
it's not so so bad that's not too bad now I see if this tries to go in here I
do like the fact that it's pretty tight I do really do like that so we're gonna
try to file this out a verb it would be so much easier and faster but have all
that stuff at work but you always put your tape in where the direction
when you turn the nut on it doesn't peel up the Teflon you want to turn wrap it
in this direction I'm only gonna put a few on the threads but I'm gonna make a
little Ridge right at the edge here so when that clamps it should seal any gap
really good you want to build up a ball to teflon right here so what I'm gonna
do is
make sure it doesn't go on flat just just a lot of like kind of twist now if
you're a plumber you probably go oh my word that is awful
but I'm not a plumber so anyways we've got the nut and this little recessed
area is gonna be great because when the Teflon goes in there it's gonna force it
towards the towards the shaft the center if you do it here it's gonna want to
force it anywhere out and may try to make its way out so this is actually
great idea that holds it in so I'm gonna tighten this up and this should so I got
vice grips holding the inside we're gonna tighten this up and see what
happens okay okay this looks good the only issue being is I don't know if I
have enough room for my tap to go on and tighten up oh just enough I think with
after Teflon Zahn it I think after I put teflon on it it will just be enough
okay so remember when you put teflon on you want to roll it in the direction
that the Teflon is not going to unravel as you tighten up enough so we want to
put in the direction I think I better go get a wrench for that I'll be back Wow
grant you are we kidding but I'm gonna tighten this on going hopefully now I'm
gonna make sure that this is tight
okay so we're gonna go see we're gonna go see if this sucker holds water now
okay so this is the next morning and it's as dry as anything that is awesome