Jim's Beer Kit

they look light duty, I use these without issue https://www.maplin.co.uk/p/ip65-rated-d ... reen-n33bq

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Dads_Ale wrote:A dowty washer should stop leaks down the thread.

+ 1 to that

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Something like this

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food grade and high temperature stable silicone is available so you should be ok with that grade

take a look here

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They are pricey

Would a female T with some barrel nipples work?

Or

Isn't 22mm compression fitting a 3/4bsp thread?

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something like this or this


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ah, me too played around with a bench top power supply to get a feeling for the voltage range that would spin the fan without the stirrer bar going daft, 3.3-3.8V worked well, to get the fan to spin need to hit 3.5V but can then turn down the wick and it is happy at lower voltage resulting in a very...

That mash temp is only to offset the high attenuation of US05/001 in that particular case. It was still giving a dry FG of 1.008, and a bit of body too.... I agree, that malt bill @ 67 with US05 comes up very clean I would go for that malt bill and as your pal is from Australia why not treat him to...

thanks, I will knock something up with an LM317 then

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used this a quite few times, let it do its own thing for the first 24-36 hours typically ~20 Celsius then ferment at 18 Celsius till consistent gravity readings, usually 6-7 days from pitching, then crash cool before racking to secondary for dry hopping then crash again before transferring to primin...

that looks like an asetek fan controller you have there, how low does it go in terms of output ? I have a zalman lying around doing nothing but the 5V lowest output on the zalman is still a very vigorous stirring, if the asetek is lower then that might be the answer, or knocking up something with an...

what kind of pump are you using?

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cheers Buster, that will be tight to my element

Depth isn't the issue, from the EDGE was the question

Looks the job

How far does this sit off the edge of the kettle, I have a circumferential element so keen to avoid interference

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