Totton Pump Connections

[Digby Swift]

I have ordered a totton pump from Norm and I am trying to think of ways to have this connected to my MT & HLT. What do you guys do? They need to be removable so I can use the pump to get the wort into the boiler and then into the fermenter. I've seen Chris' set up on his video but what parts were involved in that? Are they just 3/8" beer line and John Guest Fittings? I am having a ball valve on the MT, HLT and Boiler. Should I just take some 1/2" braided hose that has a JG 3/8" fitting in to then hook up to the pump?

I can think of ways of setting it up but not that won't burn me when I try and change round during a brew. I'd appreciate any advice pump users may have on the way the use this in their set ups.

Thanks Guys.

[GARYSMIFF]

Don't know if this helps.

[Garth]

I use quick disconnects on all my ball valves, pump connections, chiller etc, male on all the valves, female on anything else, soooooo easy to connect stuff up in seconds, they are food grade plastic.

http://morebeer.com/view_product/17382/ ... 149c79e80f

You can get them from MoreBeer, but I got the same ones from Cole Palmer and were a tad expensive, there are better stainless ones out there that are slightly cheaper which I would have gone for if I hadn't bought these first....next time eh?

[GARYSMIFF]

I use quick disconnects on all my ball valves, pump connections, chiller etc, male on all the valves, female on anything else, soooooo easy to connect stuff up in seconds, they are food grade plastic.

http://morebeer.com/view_product/17382/ ... 149c79e80f

You can get them from MoreBeer, but I got the same ones from Cole Palmer and were a tad expensive, there are better stainless ones out there that are slightly cheaper which I would have gone for if I hadn't bought these first....next time eh?

I looked at those and very nice, found a very big uk hydraulic fittings co, think it was http://www.pirtek.co.uk/who said the could order them for me but at the time Far Too much for me.


Garth can you post what it says on the Disconnect please.

[Garth]

Gary,

they have cpc written in lower case italics on the grey push bit, and on the back they have 'Made in USA' and a patent number.

They are good if a tad expensive, Steve Flack had some and gave me the idea. They are easy to use and easy to keep clean.

[GARYSMIFF]

Thanks, thats it.

http://www.colder.com/

http://www.colder.com/Products/NSFFoodG ... fault.aspx

[Digby Swift]

Is there a picture of your pump set up on the forum already Garth? Thanks for your replies. I like the set-up Gary, mine is going to have to be moveable which is a pain as I'd like to do it the way you have.

http://www.tom-parker.co.uk/index.php?v=1&recall=true&

I am currently looking on this site for some parts as they are a distributor for colder.com. So many choices that I can't work it out. I think i'll give them a ring, it would probably be best if they didn't have the valves in so I could choose not to use the pump if I wanted.

[Garth]

Gary, that's the ones, they make life so easy, the male qd with a 1/2" male screw thread fits greta into a BES 1/2" ballvalve.

Digby, I don't think there's a picture anywhere on here of the pump I use close up, although many folk on here have this model

It's basically just mounted on a piece of painted ply with four rubber feet and a lightswitch (which usually gets operated by my foot), the connections are a stainless 1/2" 90 bend screwed straight onto the impeller housing, then a stainless hose tail end on each one, all assembled with ptfe tape and a couple of jubilee clips, then there is a female CPC quick disconnect on the end of each pipe, as it's mobile I can just lug the pump about the garage so it can do all it's jobs.

[HantsGaz]

Hi Garth,

What does your ball valve & male quick disconnect set up look like? I'm thinking of connecting one of these (minus one of the nuts):

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/13103/Plu ... CSTHZOCFFQ

with I guess, one of these:

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/90848/Plu ... HZOCFFQone of these:

to one of these:

http://www.tom-parker.co.uk/products_su ... roups=863D

Just wondering if you've done it with one less component? I haven't bothered to match the thread sizes in the piccies - just to give an idea on what I'm thinking.

[rick_huggins]

I use quick disconnects on all my ball valves, pump connections, chiller etc, male on all the valves, female on anything else, soooooo easy to connect stuff up in seconds, they are food grade plastic.

http://morebeer.com/view_product/17382/ ... 149c79e80f

You can get them from MoreBeer, but I got the same ones from Cole Palmer and were a tad expensive, there are better stainless ones out there that are slightly cheaper which I would have gone for if I hadn't bought these first....next time eh?

Erm... I use these for my dry suit Pee-Valve!

[Garth]

Hi Garth,

What does your ball valve & male quick disconnect set up look like?

male disconnect screwed straight into 1/2" ballvalve (3 piece one from BES)




I can see what you intend to do with yours, I had to do that to connect the cfc, I had to use a barrel nipple like that one you have shown, plus a expensive 10mm compression to 1/2" male adaptor that took donkeys to arrive.....

[HantsGaz]

Thanks Garth - good piccies. Just looking at the BES site - is that the 1/2" BSP parallel F x (SP parallel female to female one)?

[Garth]

Thanks Garth - good piccies. Just looking at the BES site - is that the 1/2" BSP parallel F x (SP parallel female to female one)?

aye Gaz, I think so, it was part number 10397.

You'll need a brass nipple (6576) or a stainless one (14462 pricey!!) and a locknut (14547) to attach it to a vessel and maybe a fibre washer.

[Scooby]

The Master of inventiveness

[GARYSMIFF]

I think there's a degree of laziness in there also

Defo not!


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