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My urn is approximately 1/4 inch tap hole. Actually I think it’s metric measure. Anyway rather than drill it out to take 1/2 inch tap as double walled urn what I did was just de-burr / drill out the hole in existing tap to 10mm and jammed the grainfather wortometer with some silicone hose in...

Although the LED driver controlled the flow pretty well the controller or the pump screamed loudly (very annoying sound) and I lost some flow at maximum. Anyway,Well I was thinking I might just restrict the pipe by mechanical crimping? I’m too tight to buy a 1/2 ball valve. Planning to use the...

Ok. I currently use an immersion chiller with a split coil of 2x5m 10mm od copper. It works well but in lockdown I thought maybe I should build a counterflow chiller. The reason is partly if I’m honest because I read recently that a 15mm tee compression is likely to have the compression ends...

I did rig mine up so I could tap commercial kegs with the black outer bung ( ghost ship style). In practice I replaced gas line with end stop as when I connected beer flowed up that line too. Oops. It worked ok ish using keg pressure although initial tapping is messy and having a tap next to my...

Start... Seen these mini-kegs. Are they good? Size is great. towards end of thread. Getting metallic taste- is this normal ? Help, Beer tastes of metal. I ditch my keg after a few brews, etc. Beer went flat. Dumped my mini kegs.

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How handy are you at diy? If you went down to toolstation or screwfix you could likely have the 10mm copper pipe today. Lots of connection options. I went for 10mm compression to 1/2 male bsp connectors as that allowed me loads of options around garden hose adaptors, washing machine cables...

At the stage it’s very much work in progress as I can’t brew or test properly. There are a few flaws, wattage of the kettle too high for controller, silicone mesh seal is a pain to fit, water has to go upwards to flow to pump, Controller needs mounting / placement, etc The alternative mode I...

HERMS is lost on me. It looks like if I added a kettle and copper coil , switched pump of temperature control I could change from RIMS to HERMS. But I haven’t done the calcs and suspect it wouldn’t work based on the pump litres a minute.

The power rating is listed as 24w 2A at 12v. Though I almost fell off my chair because I don’t think it’s going to pass more than 0.5-1A at 12V.

Cheers. I’ve found an LED dimmer. I need to check but think it will be Pulse width modulation(PWM). I don’t know train controllers but didn’t think they were PWM. More like scaletrix controllers. That brings back memories of burning smells.

Just cautious. I did hear the sound change when running and it looked like possible air bubbles in the hose. I don’t think it was cavitation though as that not a problem for homebrew? I have 6mm ID silicone hose too but I’m now looking at 1/2 female bsp to 10mm compression instead of hose...

I have the solar pump but would like to put a filter on it. So plan would be run a brew in a big sitting on a wire sieve and then put some mesh on the pump inlet screwed under the barb hose tail. However, presumably this would restrict the pump flow at the inlet and then pump would fail ? (When...

I thought I would watch the review to see what the comment was about. A little unexpected.

Latex balloons. There was a brewer using some I recall (for brewing). No idea if the allow Co2 through. But maybe not a great look on the fermenter though?

I have what looks like the same boiler. Out of the factory sight glass connection was put together with cable ties. I have added the grainfather wortometer so now have in-line thermowell. The plan is to use a solar pump to recirculate through the sight glass ports. I’ve not done any testing yet...

I’m converting a 20L tea urn (small so might be a problem ). The urn came with I think 1/8 barb ports for a sight glass (really just a plastic tube with a ball hacked on with cable ties). I bought a solar pump so I’m planning to hook to the ports using 12v power supply. I also bought the...

Yeah it’s nuts. So the silicon tubing is 6mm ID ‘held’ on with zip ties to little mini barb connectors. Helpful for me as I realised today grainfather sell an in-line thermowell called a wortometer. I think I will hack this into the sight glass.

I normally see the lids missing from pressure barrels.

I’m converting a tea urn with inkbird or old generation grainfather controller and well would rather not drill out original tap hole to take a 1/2” (21mm drill) thermowell if I can. Yes I’d have no tap outlet! However, 1/4 thermowells to take 6mm probe seem rare so expect I’d be looking at...