A year ago, I, or rather , my wife noticed water damage on the kitchen wall. There was a trickle coming from the bottom rim of my Megaflo. This would come and go until I noticed it was discharging. After recharging the airbubble every month, I fitted an external expansion vessel, which solved the problem, and the leak, until today. I have finally, after a year of investigation, found the leak! I went mad with the tin snips and finally located a faulty seam weld at the bottom of the port the extrudes out of the main cylinder for the immersion.
It's a Mark3 and is 15 years old..dunno if Megaflo are interested in it as a faulty manufactured item?!
Anyway, any thoughts as to what to use to stop the leak? I've heard you can solder stainles steel, but to heat it I'd need to get the immersion out, which might upset the seam even more as it's a bloody tight immersion to get loose.
Chemical metal, perhaps, or does anyone know of any seriously high tech sealing adhesive type gunk that will bond and seal the stainless steel? View media item 8511 View media item 8512
It's a Mark3 and is 15 years old..dunno if Megaflo are interested in it as a faulty manufactured item?!
Anyway, any thoughts as to what to use to stop the leak? I've heard you can solder stainles steel, but to heat it I'd need to get the immersion out, which might upset the seam even more as it's a bloody tight immersion to get loose.
Chemical metal, perhaps, or does anyone know of any seriously high tech sealing adhesive type gunk that will bond and seal the stainless steel? View media item 8511 View media item 8512