Ribcage Chiller

[Bionicmunky]

Hi All,

Just thought i'd let you know the results from my new ribcage chiller which I built today.

It's a take on this

But made out of 25m of 10mm + about 3m of 15mm for the legs/feeds. it also differs in that the cold feed goes down to the bottom and splits from there, the exits are at the top of each coil, both inlet and outlets have valves so I can restrict flow and produce cavitation to stop laminar flows being produced (hopefully) whilst also balancing the two outlets. the interwoven coils look like a ribcage as each layer is kept separate by it's opposite twin.

I had to boil it up today to clean it, so thought i'd run a test in the big boiler with about 65L of water (which ended up in the butt).

Results were extremely surprising........

100c --> 50c = 7mins or so
50c -- >20c = a further 14mins

so that's 65L of boiling water down to pitching of 20c in 21mins :shock:

It just needs stiffening up some now with some copper tie wire or somesthing.

It's about time something went right for me :)

all the best,

J

 

[EskiBrew]

This is looking interesting :thumb:

Perhaps we ought to run a competition for the most novel chiller design :lol:

 

[Vossy1]

Very tidy B :thumb:

 

[highwayman]

Well Done Mate... A lot of effort gone into that and really effective too :thumb:

 

[Wez]

Great work :thumb: Good times too

 

[A T]

Nice design

 

[unclepumble]

Now thats a lot of curly Copper! well done that man.

 

[corby_brewer]

looks good mate. :thumb:

 

[BarnsleyBrewer]

Nice chiller B, make sure the gypo's don't see it, they'd love all that copper!!

John

 

[ilikerossi]

Nice chiller B, make sure the gypo's don't see it, they'd love all that copper!!

John

:clap: :rofl: :clap:

 

[Bionicmunky]

worry ye not, the brewshed is behind the dribbly furry thing.

:thumb:

 

[Vossy1]

:lol:

 

[unclepumble]

I won't be sneaking in your back yard to "nick your washing then" LOL