Burco boiler - hop filter

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alabaster cheeks

Re: Burco boiler - hop filter

Post by alabaster cheeks » Thu Sep 24, 2009 3:06 pm

i made this strainer from earlier jims postings and it works great and is easy to make :D
it keeps ot of the way of the central element also

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=23152&start=0&st=0& ... t=strainer

PaulStat

Re: Burco boiler - hop filter

Post by PaulStat » Thu Sep 24, 2009 3:19 pm

HantsGaz wrote:Aha - not sure if those have concealed or exposed elements. That was the reason for the question - around why you were putting two arms either side of the element?

**EDIT - Just read your other thread. I guess your Buco has an exposed element.
Yeah the element is exposed

PaulStat

Re: Burco boiler - hop filter

Post by PaulStat » Thu Sep 24, 2009 3:20 pm

alabaster cheeks wrote:i made this strainer from earlier jims postings and it works great and is easy to make :D
it keeps ot of the way of the central element also

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=23152&start=0&st=0& ... t=strainer
Looks very nice but I'm not sure how he got it to be so round? Like I said I don't have a reliable way of bending copper

HantsGaz

Re: Burco boiler - hop filter

Post by HantsGaz » Thu Sep 24, 2009 3:33 pm

Fairly sure he cut the copper pipe into short lengths and put them inside the mesh.

alabaster cheeks

Re: Burco boiler - hop filter

Post by alabaster cheeks » Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:44 pm

yea a pipe cutter ( couple of quid from b n q ).... quick twist n its cut
the bits are then placed in the wire mesh

PaulStat

Re: Burco boiler - hop filter

Post by PaulStat » Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:29 pm

ok I'm going to have to wait until next week when I can get round my father in laws to borrow his tools, my masonry drill bits apparently don't want to drill through copper.

PaulStat

Re: Burco boiler - hop filter

Post by PaulStat » Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:16 pm

Ok then I've got it all fitted up, I was hoping it would reduce my dead space from a rather large 4 litres down to a few hundred ml, by utilising the syphon effect.

So the syphon isn't working for some reason and I was someone could tell me why, so here's some pics

The inside of the boiler:
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The outside of the boiler:
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The underside of the hop filter:
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Thoughts please? :(

PaulStat

Re: Burco boiler - hop filter

Post by PaulStat » Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:48 am

hellooo? any advice?

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