My Oatmeal Stout

zigger1_2000 · Post by **zigger1_2000** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:48 pm

SiHoltye,

So in your opinion if I let cool from 92C to room temperature and then try tomorrow night with a new boiler then will things be OK?

Wez · Post by **Wez** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:58 pm

I can't see any reason why that won't be ok.

Thats what i'd do.

zigger1_2000 · Post by **zigger1_2000** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:00 am

Well I've put an ad in the wanted section for a boiler. My Electrim is very old and I doubt I could get the element tomorrow. If no replys I will probably buy a new boiler from the Stockport homebrew shop tomorrow.

Vossy1 · Post by **Vossy1** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:42 am

It sounds like the cut out is operating in your element.
Have a look round the forum, there are several topics on how to remove them from the element....worth a try.

zigger1_2000 · Post by **zigger1_2000** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:58 am

Cheers for pointing that out Vossy. I looked and found this on the forum. Will try and solve with the advise given.

http://jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/viewtopi ... ent+cutout

zigger1_2000 · Post by **zigger1_2000** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:21 am

I couldn't wait... So I poured the wort out into a separate bucket and took the element out for inspection. Couldn't find the cut out circuit. It seemed it was too sealed. But the element had a lot of crud on it. So I thought just maybe the crud is making it overheat and cut out? So I put the element in with a strong dose of Oxiclean and scrubbed with wire wool. Put my nice shiny clean element back in. Wow what a boil I am now getting!!! Lesson learned. Crud is not your friend

Heres too a late one!

Vossy1 · Post by **Vossy1** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:56 am

That's some late brew Z1

Glad to see you got it sorted

zigger1_2000 · Post by **zigger1_2000** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:24 pm

Yeah finished and clean up at about 4am

These things happen to test us I am sure!

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