Jim's Beer Kit

What you're proposing sounds fine, Jubby. You'll need a decent hop filter in the boiler, and maybe recirculate the boiling wort for longer.

If you're using an immersion chiller then keep the pump running -- it speeds up the cooling tremendously.

Thanks Kev. I'll build my saddle and see how it goes.

FWIW this was to bind a naked sensor (NTC but it could have been another type) to the copper output pipe of the CFC with PTFE tape - then insulation and a final layer of pvc tape. (I first soldered a copper slip coupler/joiner over the CFC's pipe for extra thickness, which allowed a small flat to b...

The LCD stick-on jobs are fine for a rough-and-ready reading, but the hot water will knacker them after a while.

I stick them permanently onto aluminium foil, then just press them against whichever vessel/pipe I want to measure.

That looks awesome, Poppazombie. Nice work.

Could make a handy butter churn too.

I once hooked up a mechanical relay to a PID and it wouldn't switch at all.

I recently bought a 10l Buffalo from Nisbets, Nesbits, whatever it's called, and the tap hole and tap thread had straight sides. To fit a standard 15mm tank connector I had to enlarge the hole with a dremel and an aluminium oxide bit. It's not a difficult job, though.

Nice! I like a few landscape shots.

I just replaced the tap with a ball-valve. On the inside, I connected up the grain filter with some silicon tube. The height of the tap doesn't really matter if you get a syphon going.

Very nice!

How does it work with the 'o' rings? Are they in between the T and the straight pipe?

Looking good there. Hops would love that pergola.

I added a pressure gauge to my bottom tap KK and I'm getting strange readings- suspect I've got a slow leak. Filled it with a kit ale, applied vaseline to the washers etc, gave it a blast from an 8g CO2 to check- the pressure shot up then vented down to 10psi, over the next few hours it slowly drop...

It's okay to run two elements from the same ring circuit, as long as you plug each element into a separate socket. (Not a double socket; two physically separate sockets.) Two 2.4kW elements (say) will draw a total of 20 Amps. A domestic ring circuit can handle up to 32 Amps. To be safe, don't use th...

barneey wrote: In order of the strongest seal

1) Tri-clover (clamp) = 10 points
2) C&G = 5 points
3) QD = 3 points

So are Cam & Groove and Quick Disconnects liable to leak? Doesn't that rather defeat the point of them?

When you're reducing the flow of a magnetic pump it's better to do it on the output rather than the input. And don't call me Shirley. I understand that, but Shirley you have the ball valve attached to the pump, not the pot...? Just seems like you could save some £££ on ball valves... Cheers, Bob. A...