Franklin
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The Pictures so far, its not been soldered up yet but I made the aluminium spacer strips to hold the coils about 5mm apart, the strips also let it sit nicely on the bottom of my stockpot boiler without interfering with the hop strainer.
I wound the 10 metres of 10mm Diameter copper around a small 15 litre bucket which left it quite neat then knocked up the ally strips at work last night, just had to add a short length of bent 15mm pipe to get the coils end points closer so I could bring the inlet/outlet pipe closer together so I can cable tie them when I'm done.
Should I have the hose connections pointing downwards or will they be OK horizontal (with 2x 10mm solder-ring reducers which fit nicely in the end of the garden hose:))
**update: now soldered up and connected, no leaks... Just one question, how do you get the water out of it when you've finished?
***Cooling test Update:
Warming up, bits of pipe scum coming loose and floating:
On the boil:
The results are, from 100 Deg C:
7mins - 49 C
10mins - 39 C
15mins - 28 C
20mins - 23.6 C
25mins - 21 C
I stirred the water at least every 2 minutes :)
I wound the 10 metres of 10mm Diameter copper around a small 15 litre bucket which left it quite neat then knocked up the ally strips at work last night, just had to add a short length of bent 15mm pipe to get the coils end points closer so I could bring the inlet/outlet pipe closer together so I can cable tie them when I'm done.
Should I have the hose connections pointing downwards or will they be OK horizontal (with 2x 10mm solder-ring reducers which fit nicely in the end of the garden hose:))
**update: now soldered up and connected, no leaks... Just one question, how do you get the water out of it when you've finished?
***Cooling test Update:
Warming up, bits of pipe scum coming loose and floating:
On the boil:
The results are, from 100 Deg C:
7mins - 49 C
10mins - 39 C
15mins - 28 C
20mins - 23.6 C
25mins - 21 C
I stirred the water at least every 2 minutes :)
