My boiler's leaking! Please help!

[adam the flatulent]

I started a brew on Sunday afternoon, I used my boiler to heat my liquor and got the mash and sparging done hunky dorey. But now my boiler has sprung a leak, from where the element passes through the bucket. I'm trying to get a water heater (like at coffee mornings) or immersion heater that I can submerge instead, but I've got 25lts of wort sat in there desperately wanted to be boiled!

Does anybody have any bright ideas how I can get it boiled ASAP? Or maybe live in the Clitheroe/settle area and have a copper I could borrow for a day or two? At the moment, the only thing we can think of, is to follow mums suggestion, of using the big pans and doing it on the cooker in batches (would this cause any problems btw?)...

Any help would be greatly received!

Cheer guys

Adam

 

[kitoog]

Can you pour the wort into another bucket/buckets? You can make a washer with a silicon backing sheet, just carefully cut to size as the silicone can tear quitre easily.Some suitably sized hole saws are good for making them or carefully with a knife or scissors.

 

[Fil]

+1 for silicone baking sheet home made washers, use the elements rubber ring as a template, cut 1 to the inner diameter, the second 1/2 way between the inner and outer rings, this one poke inside the rubber ring washer on the outside, the second lay over the rubber washer, a smear of Vaseline keeps them in place while you work.

 

[MankySteve]

Transfer into your sterilized fv and store overnight its going to boiled anyway so shouldn't be huge risk of infection.

If others susgestions don't work.

 

[adam the flatulent]

Cheers for your help guys. We manage to get it boiled. It was the nut on the immersion heater that had gone. The thread was knackered. So I need to try and source a new one now. Sadly it's not a standard British plumbing part. Oh well. Thanks again

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