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Post by mr.c » Sat Nov 26, 2005 9:08 pm

yes one can get a Stainless Steel Racking Cane for syphoning but for £10.95 :stun


But can one us 10mm copper pipe would it be ok or have some effect on the flavour of the beer ? :blink:
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Post by Jim » Sun Nov 27, 2005 9:25 am

All my beer goes through about 5m of copper pipe in the wort chiller, and I've never noticed a problem. Glass and plastic are fine as well, and quite cheap.
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Post by mr.c » Sun Nov 27, 2005 11:13 am

QUOTE (jim @ Nov 27 2005, 08:25 AM)quite cheap.
Thank you jim for that one ;)


one more thing i bin looking into making a wort chiller what do you think of this
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/4-x-25ft-of-Coppe ... dZViewItem
would the gauge be to small
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Post by Jim » Sun Nov 27, 2005 11:41 am

QUOTE (mr.c @ Nov 27 2005, 11:13 AM) .......one more thing i bin looking into making a wort chiller what do you think of this
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/4-x-25ft-of-Coppe ... dZViewItem
would the gauge be to small
I'm not really sure what size 22 gauge is, actually! My wort chiller uses 8mm copper water pipe (used in microbore central heating systems).

I would be more worried about the possibility that the copper might have some other metal in it to make it stronger which might make it unsuitable for brewing use. I don't know about that, though.

I'm sure my tubing was only about a tenner for 5m. Unless you have a use for all 100ft of that stuff, it's going to cost you at least £19.
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Post by mr.c » Sun Nov 27, 2005 4:39 pm

ok i see screw fix has it fir £16.95 25m Copper Tubing. Table W, Annealed (BS EN 1057 Soft).

http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro ... 5&ts=05466.
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Post by Andy » Sun Nov 27, 2005 5:06 pm

I would imagine that ebay stuff is too small, I was looking for lengths of copper
pipe on there and found loads of that small bore stuff - meant for automotive
brake lines. The Ebay auction gives some other info:-

"Outside Diameter 3/16 ins - 4.76mm"

So the bore size will be less than that - too small I would have thought....
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Post by mr.c » Sun Nov 27, 2005 5:15 pm

yes i think screw fix is the one but i will look around befor i get some.
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Post by Andy » Sun Nov 27, 2005 6:48 pm

B.E.S is cheaper!


.... by 64p :lol:

This is what you want :-

http://www.plumbworld.co.uk/123-0000
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Post by mr.c » Sun Nov 27, 2005 7:23 pm

NICE ONE ANDY I WILL GO WITH B.E.S

look like i will have a wort chiller for about £15 and not £30 :P
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Post by Andy » Sun Nov 27, 2005 7:36 pm

:blink:

the bottom link I posted is plumbworld not BES by the way :D
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Post by mr.c » Sun Nov 27, 2005 7:58 pm

o yes sorry plumbworld is the one :rolleyes: :D
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