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Old 01-08-2009, 02:14 PM   #11
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Assuming you used soft copper tubing to make the coil, what type of fittings did you use for the ends?
What was your etimated total cost for this piece of equipment?
Let me field this one.

A LOT!!!!!

Most likely just used compression fittings and PE with hose clamps. I'm interested in what sort of circulating pump he used that could be kept sterile during use, storage, and cleaning. I assume the one that I used in my fish pond would not work.
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Old 01-08-2009, 07:38 PM   #12
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Assuming you used soft copper tubing to make the coil, what type of fittings did you use for the ends?
What was your etimated total cost for this piece of equipment?
Copper tubing is $26 + $10 shipping on ebay non-ebay link (Home Depot is higher - $46 plus tax, Lowes doesn't sell 50 foot lengths).

I will use it in the garage after boiling on propane burner. No fancy hose fittings.... I just put some plastic tubing on it with ss hose clamps; about fifteen feet of clear plastic tubing on each end; one goes to garden hose via a brass "nozzle" attachment and another ss screw clamp, the other end of the hose goes into washing machine - no point in wasting water.

Ends were bent down with a copper tubing bender (not the spring kind) so that thinks wouldn't get kinky...

Total cost would be around $50 but I had the tubing, clamps on hand...
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Old 01-08-2009, 07:40 PM   #13
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Let me field this one.

A LOT!!!!!

Most likely just used compression fittings and PE with hose clamps. I'm interested in what sort of circulating pump he used that could be kept sterile during use, storage, and cleaning. I assume the one that I used in my fish pond would not work.
No pump. Everything works off of gravity.

I used to have a chiller that I ran the beer through - not a counterflow chiller, per se.... it was immersed in a bucket in which cold water entered from the bottom and overflowed off the top. But I never felt confident it was ever really clean or sanitized oin the inside...

I have an immersion chiller I have used before but it was old and beat up and only about twenty feet long.
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how big is your septic field, Wankel?
N/A. I piss it off underneath my neighbor's window. His daughter has remarked several times about the force of the stream...
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maybe you could wash his car for him sometime...
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maybe you could wash his car for him sometime...
Not likely...but I'll wash HER car... OK, bicycle...
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I gotta figure out how to stabilize the thing. It behaves like a giant slinky. The chiller I mean....
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I gotta figure out how to stabilize the thing. It behaves like a giant slinky. The chiller I mean....

A few zip ties quicked diped in scalding water to steralize , then place as needed to keep it from acting like a slinky might work.
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