Hi everyone

I'm from Switzerland and new here; I'm not experienced yet but hope to be able to try a first project soon. At the moment I can show you the resin trap I made a week ago:



(these pics were rotated automatically for some reason I don't know, they should be upright)

It's made from Geberit 110 mm drain pipe components, this is a very common system in Switzerland and used in almost every building. The material is PE - therefore not glueable - and professional plumbers use a double-sided welding plate to weld it, I've seen a friend of mine do it years ago and it is really quick if you're practiced at it. However now he isn't a plumber anymore and I wasn't able to get hold of such a hot plate in the short term, therefore I had to hand weld the seams. Doing it for the first time these welds turned out quite ugly I have to admit. Inside I put a 100 mm tin can that fits just snugly.

It is not 100 % tight but tracking the leak down is - unfortuantely - not as easy as it would be with a pressure tank. After 1 hour it had lost 0.1 bar and after 3 hours another 0.1. Maybe someone can advise if I need to try and improve it with a trial and error approach or if this will do.

Regards
Martin

Welcome to the forum!

A tiny leak on the catch pot isn't a big problem as you will clamp the bag up between the bag and catch pot so any leak out of the catch pot during the resin cure isn't an issue.

Warren Penalver
Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant