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Fixed….
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….. for now.
 
As an aside, I don’t know how you do it but I found drilling a hole in the thin stainless steel wall of my HLT a right pain! Couldn’t get a pilot hole started for love nor money. Ended up using a masonry nail to punch a hole in the wall (from the inside) so I could drill a hole big enough to get a step drill in to enlarge it to use a 40mm Qmax cutter. Bit of a palaver but got there in the end.
 
I've used the tank cutter from Kegland, but that only cuts a 32mm hole , pretty neat job on the flimsy SS.
I used the diamond bit on a dremel to get started then a metal cutting drill for the pilot hole. Completely agree with you that cutting the SS is a right pain. Welding it is probably even more fiddly. But not in my skill set at all.
 
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