Hi,
fourth radiator fix on a 17,000 hour tractor because of cracks and vibration, rather than corrosion and I want something different.
A specialized radiator shop not too far away offered me to customize and recore this copper/steel radiator with a new all in house made core.
The tube-to-header joints are going to be made by dip soldering, which sounds ok to me. What seems more unusual to me is that they are tinning all their copper tubes both outside and inside.
Is it actually common practice to put tin on the inside?
Do you guys see any problems arising from such a large tin coated surface area?
The shop owner is great to talk to, but lost a bit of credibility when he insisted that steel tanks MUST be sprayed with some sort of stainless steel spray to keep them from rotting away on the inside. Eventually I managed to convince him that properly inhibited coolant will do just that. I do not want his foreign particles or ions in my coolant!
Would you allow him to put his hands on your radiator?
Thanks for your comments - ED
fourth radiator fix on a 17,000 hour tractor because of cracks and vibration, rather than corrosion and I want something different.
A specialized radiator shop not too far away offered me to customize and recore this copper/steel radiator with a new all in house made core.
The tube-to-header joints are going to be made by dip soldering, which sounds ok to me. What seems more unusual to me is that they are tinning all their copper tubes both outside and inside.
Is it actually common practice to put tin on the inside?
Do you guys see any problems arising from such a large tin coated surface area?
The shop owner is great to talk to, but lost a bit of credibility when he insisted that steel tanks MUST be sprayed with some sort of stainless steel spray to keep them from rotting away on the inside. Eventually I managed to convince him that properly inhibited coolant will do just that. I do not want his foreign particles or ions in my coolant!
Would you allow him to put his hands on your radiator?
Thanks for your comments - ED
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