Hello all,
Anyone have one? Any good? Is the cap valve pin type?
Cheers
Clint
Anyone have one? Any good? Is the cap valve pin type?
Cheers
Clint
Wilco pb
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Reviews of the new one (lots of them bad) say the cap is a piercing S-30. The bad reviews say the lid needs a lot of dressing/filing/trimming to make it work. I've had to do that with most of my barrels so don't think anything of it.
Hi!
I'm considering converting a wide-necked fermenter into a pressure vessel.
View media item 568Wilko's new FV already has a tap fitted.
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I'm considering converting a wide-necked fermenter into a pressure vessel.
View media item 568Wilko's new FV already has a tap fitted.
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Same here. ...
I've got a Wilko PB. Had no trouble with it at all - it seems much better made than budget barrels.
The valve has a thin tube stucking up in the middle of a brass body. I'm afraid I don't know about such things as I don't use CO2 - I re-prime when the pressure runs out.
The valve has a thin tube stucking up in the middle of a brass body. I'm afraid I don't know about such things as I don't use CO2 - I re-prime when the pressure runs out.
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Yeah, that's the pin type. Apparently you can flick it out with a paper clip if you want to use things like the sodastream doobry.
Colin
Thanks for sorting out the permissions. I can now see your posted images.
That said, is the conversion of a 'wide necked fermenter' into a pressure containing vessel a wise move? Homebrew PBs, however crude they appear to be, have been designed and tested to withstand a stated pressure (15psig working is stamped on mine). So unless it is stamped on the fermenter you have no idea what the rupture pressure is. A catatrophic failure could be life threatening. We don't want to lose you.
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Got one last year. As already posted it needed some filing before I was happy with the top seal but "so what, so do the other brands'! I also use Vaseline round the top seal just to make sure and it keeps the pressure just fine, but ...
... the bottom of my keg bulges under pressure. This is no big deal for me as it has a pressure relief valve on the top, plus ...
... I rest the back of the keg on a lump of 1" x 1" wood because the tap is positioned quite high up the side of the keg and tilting the keg when it reaches a low level will disturb the yeast on the bottom.
The cap has a pin type adapter for CO2 injection.
Would I buy one again? At half the price of a King Keg my answer is a semi-resounding "Yes!"
I wouldn't bother. Imagine if it splits because it's not rated as a pressure vessel. Apart from the mess it can make you are chucking away six weeks of care and attention for the £12 difference between a fermenter and a Wilko PB.
Not really worth it is it?
Hi!
Thanks for the concern. In this thread @foxy tested the Aussie Wilko wide-necked fermenter to 40psi, which is much more than the 15psi I plan to ferment under. I already have a Young's fermenter to experiment on - @foxy uses hose tails and John Guest taps to get the gas into the vessel and a standard tap to serve the beer.
I have a no-chill cube rated to 200 kilo pascals - about 29psi - so that would be suitable, but fitting a tap would be very difficult because of the small cap size.
I've just received Corny posts which I plan to add to the cube to make it into a "Jerrykeg"; the problem is the dip tube for liquid - the actual Corny dip tube might be the wrong size (and not cheap). I thought that gas line would be "stiff" enough, if I can get it straightened.
All of these ideas are to get vessels suitable for fermenting under pressure but without the expense of Corny kegs.
Just purchased said pb....the young lady in the shop took some convincing that the two on display minus cap seal and co2 injector bit that’s screwed into the cap...are useless. She disappeared and came back with a complete one..
I notice the hole for the tap isn’t the same diameter all the way through...finishes in a sort of nipple on the inside..
Giving this the terrym treatment....lid filed etc...Dutto..did you use any ptfe around the lid thread?
I notice the hole for the tap isn’t the same diameter all the way through...finishes in a sort of nipple on the inside..
Giving this the terrym treatment....lid filed etc...Dutto..did you use any ptfe around the lid thread?
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Dutto
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No PTFE Tape, just the washer, a smear of Vaseline and careful toghtening.:thumb:I'm not really surprised that the caps were missing. (Disgusted? "Yes," but but not surprised.):wave:I hate thieves! It's not usually just the cost of what they've stolen it's the inconvenience to others the gets my goat. In the police we used to say "They'll take the laces out of your shoes if you give 'em a chance." and nothing I've seen in the last 50 years has encouraged me to change my opinion!
Inside of the barrel is flared in with a hole ....dunno if it's right. ..
A flared hole?
Oooh, matron!
Dutto
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Mine's the same.
I presumed that the PB was moulded in two halves and then, before being joined together, on the tap side a "knob" of plastic was milled out to give the recess and the thread for the tap.
Hi!
Many years ago, when Woolworths shops were a series of display counters with assistants to serve you (no self-service then), one assistant told me that people would steal one seg from a card of ten
Why do you want to ferment under pressure?
Dutto
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Ah, Woolworths! Every kids destination to hone his shoplifting skills for Christmas presents!:thumb:Happy Days!
