Pump Reviews

[highwayman]

An excellent thread you have started here Vossy....Well Done :clap:

JB..Keep us posted re your Flojet tests..add some picts if you get chance
I also bought a Flojet pump for a £8 on Fleabay and use it to transfer my cold wort from my copper (in my garage where I brew) through a 3/8 beer pipe to my 60 Litre FV in the Utility Room 10 meters away ..Works a treat to aeriate the wort and best of all saves my back by not having to carry a 46 litre FV through the house

 

[damfoose]

Managed to win this on flebay its a March May MMP 3A pump. has the mag drive on it so I can controll the flow rate only issue at the moment is connecting it up to the boiler and the HLT as it has 2 diffrent sized barbs on it. :wha:

Im working it out though using some clear plastic pipe that I used for transfering from FV to cornie then to a 15mm JB 90 degree push fit and to some JB water pipe up to the HLT job done. :hmm:

Need to get some more tube now though

 

[BrewStew]

you might want to consider metal braided hose... i found my clear hose and nylon braided hoses totally collapse under the heat of the liquor :thumb:

 

[damfoose]

you might want to consider metal braided hose... i found my clear hose and nylon braided hoses totally collapse under the heat of the liquor :thumb:

I shall have to look into that if the pipe im going to use does not work.
Or are their any other ideas to what I could use to connect from the barbas to 15mm pipe ?
The barb sizes are small 11mm at its widest point and large 13mm at its widest point.

 

[Frisp]

Hmmmmm Im old and confused here. Am I right in saying that some of you are using flowjets to Sparge. If so then am I right in assuming that a flowjet would be able to cope with recirculating wort through a Heat exchanger. And as long as I dont want to pump boiling wort then flowjets would do the job? And if so why isnt everyone with a small compressor using them?
Or am I being a dumbass

 

[Vossy1]

you might want to consider metal braided hose... i found my clear hose and nylon braided hoses totally collapse under the heat of the liquor

Or buy this stuff from Morebeer...it's the dogs danglies and rated to boiling liquids. Quite a few of us use it

 

[damfoose]

Thats another good idea Vossy, It will also go up the inside of the plastic tubing giving it rigidity as i have to pump the hot water / liqure up about 5 feet.

 

[Vossy1]

only issue at the moment is connecting it up to the boiler and the HLT as it has 2 diffrent sized barbs on it.

It looks like the pump has 1/2" BSP female terminals on the ports...from what I can see. The fitting that is screwed into it looks like a 1/2" male BSp to a certain sized barb. You should be able to unscrew the grey fitting from the port terminal and replace it with whatever you want, say a 1/2" male to 15mm push fit fitting.

I'll insert a part reference in a mo

this would do the job, assuming the pump has a 1/2" female port

It's the same part that I use on my boiler sight tube. It's 'not' rated to boiling, but these parts have never failed me, in my present brewery or the last one.

You might want to check the port sizes on the pump. This tech sheet says they may be 3/8th female :hmm:

 

[damfoose]

Took a pic of the barbs, The one on the left is the input the right hand one is out.

 

[Vossy1]

They look like 3/8th fittings to me. A 1/2" fitting is about 20mm from thread to thread and yours are definately smaller than that....worth checking though.

So I'd say you need a 3/8th male bsp to 15mm tube push fit, part number PM011513E :thumb:

EDIT, if they are 3/8th, the internal bore of the hole in the fitting should be about 10mm.

 

[damfoose]

Yep 10mm internal hole bore. Much appreciated for the help their Vossy. Some days im thick as 2 short planks. I knew what I wanted to do just no idea where to get the kit. On the flip side gime a busted comp no problems.

 

[Vossy1]

Magic d, let us know how you get on with the pump :thumb:

 

[damfoose]

Bits ordered, hopefully should be here for saturday and I want to do a brew on saturday just a little stuck at the moment no gas ant the new brewery is not quite finished...

 

[Vossy1]

How did the pump work D ?

 

[Oggys Bar]

Hmmmmm Im old and confused here. Am I right in saying that some of you are using flowjets to Sparge. If so then am I right in assuming that a flowjet would be able to cope with recirculating wort through a Heat exchanger. And as long as I dont want to pump boiling wort then flowjets would do the job? And if so why isnt everyone with a small compressor using them?
Or am I being a dumbass

As far as I know, I am the only one using Flowjets...I dont understand why everyone isn't using them..they are just so simple, so flexible, so cheap and so foolproof...perhaps I'm the only fool :?

Yes they cope extremely well with recirculating and sparging mash at 60-80c, the output is infinitely variable and the pulse effect can be used to advantage in reducing cavitation preventing stuck sparges. As for pumping boiling wort, I use mine to pump from the copper directly to the fermenter through a CFC, though the pump sucks from the cold end of the CFC.

See this thread for my setup:http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=799

 

[jamesb]

Hmmmmm Im old and confused here. Am I right in saying that some of you are using flowjets to Sparge. If so then am I right in assuming that a flowjet would be able to cope with recirculating wort through a Heat exchanger. And as long as I dont want to pump boiling wort then flowjets would do the job? And if so why isnt everyone with a small compressor using them?
Or am I being a dumbass

As far as I know, I am the only one using Flowjets...I dont understand why everyone isn't using them..they are just so simple, so flexible, so cheap and so foolproof...perhaps I'm the only fool :?

I will be using them, just missing a compressor and some pipe.

Bigger brewery is on hold as SWMBO lost her job in January and unfortunately she's of the opinion that eating is a bigger priority than my brewery.

 

[arturobandini]

Plenty of bars still use co2 to power their flojets....naughty naughty!

How much is your run of the mill air compressor? How often do you clean those flojets out Oggy? I've read they can be an absolute mother to put back together...buckaroo anyone?

 

[jamesb]

Plenty of bars still use co2 to power their flojets....naughty naughty!

Surely that's fine as long as the exhaust is vented outside.

How much is your run of the mill air compressor? How often do you clean those flojets out Oggy? I've read they can be an absolute mother to put back together...buckaroo anyone?

I saw some information this morning about that, in a place I shall not mention

 

[arturobandini]

Yeah it's fine if it's vented outside but none of the Cellars I've been in are!

In the long term I'd have thought air compressor would be immeasurably cheaper than Co2.

 

[jamesb]

Yeah it's fine if it's vented outside but none of the Cellars I've been in are!

In the long term I'd have thought air compressor would be immeasurably cheaper than Co2.

Yes, although someone at work told me that compressors are expensive to run constantly.

I've got all the stuff if I want to run them off CO2, but I don't fancy paying for it. OTOH, I suppose I can do those tests I was going to run with it while I'm waiting.