heat excanger with problems :)

[frederik79]

hi ,

The picture i included is one of a heat exchanger,the tube is the exit liquid pipe
from a freezing application (hope this is the right place to post this)
It struggled for a long time with low pressure issues.
i think this fault is due to bad brasing (20%)
instead of 80 %

have you guys ever seen this kinda thing before ??
and what do you think

thank you

[monkey spanners]

Looks like there is something blocking the pipe??

[Iceman 386]

looks like you could of had a liquid slug shot through the system for some reason
need more info about the system

[frederik79]

monkey spanners
my theory is liquid got under the copper...(look at the first pic)
pushed the copper blocking the pipe.
can't get any other good reason why this happened.

[monkey spanners]

I've seen something similar in a vibration eliminator, used to cause hp trips on start up but once system was running it worked ok.