20-11-2015, 04:56 PM
(20-11-2015, 03:10 PM)Murphyv310 Wrote: Hi
I particularly hate kettles with a sight glass. Virtually everyone has leaked in the sight glass area, some use a stupid polythene pipe that goes brittle and cracks or have a plastic window held on with plastic clips that again don't like hot water!
For years I had a Swan kettle with no sights or any such nonsense. One element in 25 years is better than a new kettle every four years!
The fire cracker we had was given to me for free and replaced a Russell Hobbs steel one that leaked by a little dent in the edge.
It had a clear polystyrene segment in the side with "O" rings where the ends where it connected to the body and it just clipped into place. The plastic clips just got loose after a year or so and it started leaking.
I was asked to repair an earlier fixed cord example of the item some years before and that got a generous shot of smelly silicon mastic behind the sight glass and the leaking stopped. It was from the works canteen so I was officially allowed to fix it in work time.
I just make sure they have a welded in sight glass and have not had any further trouble with leaking from the glass area.
