advice on next upgrades to brewery

[mattybabsy]

hi there folks

am in the middle of some tiny upgrades to my 'brewery'

bought 5m from vossy of the hose. going to use some to hose from MT to boiler. also going to use some of that to hose from my hlt to top of mt to sparge. atm thinking of hosing onto top of tin foil on top of grains. this would be simple but would save me from having to manually pour litre per litre on top of the foil. the problem I have atm is the tap on my hlt. i'll post pics below. but basically, its a little to big for the hose but also I have no control of the flow from the hlt. so I suppose I'm wondering if/how I should buy a new tap for my hlt thatll fit the hose and also allow me to control the flow.

this is the boiler

tap with top on. (the top can come off the tap. see below)

so I could, in theory just find a replacement top that'll let me control the flow of the tap. but not sure I can get my 17/18mm tap into the hose i bought

so I could just get a new tap completely

thoughts?

 

[Vossy1]

I'd just get a new tap, I'm sure someone's done that before on here :hmm:

 

[mattybabsy]

thx V- any recommendations of sites?

 

[Vossy1]

Just checked 5 pages of 'hits' closest I could find was this one which talks of replacing the buffalo tap with a ball valve.

 

[mattybabsy]

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