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You are certainly correct about stainless being difficult to work, as depending on the actual alloy, it is often sort of "gummy" for machining purposes, which makes it difficult to tap. Sure hope I don't go and break any taps on this beast.

More "bad news" is that this will require me to go and "visit" the PM Research catalog in order to select a few appropriate fittings and thread sizes for the various holes needing to be filled, so that I can find out if it will even hold water. Visiting PMR tends to be expensive I find, as looking through their catalog always has some of their items "finding" me!!!