Immersion chiller (again - sorry!)

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Immersion chiller (again - sorry!)

Post by bitter_dave » Fri Sep 29, 2006 1:30 pm

At the moment i'm probably the only person doing AG brews on this forum who doesn't use a chiller after the boil - I do the cooling in the sink thing. This is because (1) I'm a poor student :cry: :) , and, (2) I'm crap at making stuff.

However, I'm thinking of making an immersion chiller if I can get the stuff cheaply enough. Is this on ebay suitable:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BNIB-copper-micro ... dZViewItem

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Re: Immersion chiller (again - sorry!)

Post by bod » Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:40 pm

bitter_dave wrote: I'm crap at making stuff.

evidently not, if you can make a beer worth supping. :wink:

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Re: Immersion chiller (again - sorry!)

Post by bitter_dave » Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:30 pm

bod wrote: evidently not, if you can make a beer worth supping. :wink:
Cheers Bod, and cheers Daab, but here is where my real idiocy becomes apparent :oops: :lol: This is the type of tap I have:



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The water comes out through a large nozzle; is there any way to attach a hose to this? If it's not, perhaps I could run water from a fermenting bin, with ice in it to keep the water below room tempertature?

What do people think?

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Post by Jim » Sat Sep 30, 2006 3:13 pm

You can definitely get a hoselock fitting to go on that tap (though it's a bit of a dodgy fit) because that's identical to our tap before I did the new kitchen.

I'll post a photo if necessary, but it's a fitting with a slot for the end of the tap to go in, where it rests on a rubber washer and feeds into the 'hoselock' male end. You then clamp it to the tap by turning a clamp knob on the top.

You'll have a problem, though, as the hot and cold water come out of different holes and sometimes you can get cold water through but the hot is blocked by the washer, so you have to fiddle with the position of the fitting. It is possible, though.

My new tap fits the hoselock adapter perfectly - I must have been quite an amusing sight in MFI, trying it on all the kitchen taps. :lol:

EDIT: Here's a link to the very fellow!
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Post by Seveneer » Sat Sep 30, 2006 3:14 pm

When I lived in a flat with no access to an outside tap I used to syphon the water from the toilet cystern through the immersion chiller and into the bath :?

/Phil.

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Post by DRB » Sat Sep 30, 2006 3:29 pm

:lol: Now thats using your inititive seveveer.

Seveneer

Post by Seveneer » Sat Sep 30, 2006 3:31 pm

Yeah, and it was self regulating courtesy of the ball valve :lol:

/Phil.

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Post by bitter_dave » Sat Sep 30, 2006 3:39 pm

Excellent, lots of options :) Cheers guys 8)
Jim wrote:I must have been quite an amusing sight in MFI, trying it on all the kitchen taps. :lol:
This reminds me of walking around B&Q with a boiler tap, sticking long copper tubes in the back when I was thinking about making a hop strainer - everyone must have been thinking 'my god, he has a very basic understanding of plumbing' :lol:

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Post by Frothy » Sat Sep 30, 2006 5:35 pm

you could use one of these

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Multipurpose-Tap- ... otohosting

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depends if it would fit over the size of tap that you have.
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Post by bitter_dave » Sun Oct 01, 2006 11:56 am

Cheers Frothy :)

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