Setled on this For mash Tun. Thoughts wanted please.

[BarnsleyBrewer]

That's very cool!

The sparger worked great.. I got some 8mm airpipe from work and made loads of spraying holes with an hot needle.

[Cully]

And just connect a acrylic tubing to the other end and to the Hot Liquor tank?

[BarnsleyBrewer]

And just connect a acrylic tubing to the other end and to the Hot Liquor tank?

Yes that's correct, just need it higher to save using a pump.

[BarnsleyBrewer]

I made the copper grain filter in a way that I could take the end off easily to clean any husks out.


Full of grain

[Monkeybrew]

I use the exact same coolbox, and it loses just over a degree over a 90min mash, but i do put a piece of Kingspan on top of it and cover it with a blanket this time of year.

I went for this format of manifold in the end, after plenty of pointers on here



I get between 80-83% mash efficiency.

Cheers

MB

[Cully]

Ordered and on the way, just need to sort a tap out now and experiment a bit with filters. The help on here is amazing by the way.

[timbo41]

MB I can see how the manifold is made but do yo have a refererence linky to the tank connector. Can never work out how that's done with a conpression fitting. There's always a pipe lip inside them

[Monkeybrew]

MB I can see how the manifold is made but do yo have a refererence linky to the tank connector. Can never work out how that's done with a conpression fitting. There's always a pipe lip inside them

Took me a while to work it out, but I used a 1/2" bsp brass nipple like this -



You can cut it to length to suit your MT, boiler or HLT. Plenty of PTFE tape on the thread, and then I used flanged back nuts on either side with homemade food safe silicon seals.

Hopes this helps you both.

Cully - when I brewed in my ice cold shed last night, I actually lost 2C over 90 mins

Cheers

MB

[Cully]

Just reinforces that I have got the right one, MB. Taking my time sorting it out a bit at a time. A couple of Copper kettle 60 ltr boilers next. Can you tell me - if i get them with holes in for the elements, will they be standard size? I want to see if I can get elements cheaper than the ones that they sell. Oh and would it be the 22m hole I'd need for a tap?

http://www.copperkettlehomebrewing.co.u ... adb67e5aa8

[themadhippy]

personally id go for tighter holes,20mm and 38mm or 3/4" and inch ndaff in proper money.

[Fil]

MB I can see how the manifold is made but do yo have a refererence linky to the tank connector. Can never work out how that's done with a conpression fitting. There's always a pipe lip inside them

drill or file out the pipe stop, that lets you push copper tube all the way through the fitting for attaching onto both ends use the tank connector compression nut to lock and seal the copper tube in place, and add a compression valve to one end and your internal filter/manifold to the other side, If handy with a gas gun you could also use lead free solder to fix/seal the copper tube in the tank connector, and not poke it all the way through the compression fixing allowing you to use a female 1/2" bsp fixing for filter/manifold or valve onto the tank connector directly.

+1 for 20mm and 38.5mm holes, you can always wittle a little extra size from a hole with a file, making it smaller is impossible..

[timbo41]

MB I can see how the manifold is made but do yo have a refererence linky to the tank connector. Can never work out how that's done with a conpression fitting. There's always a pipe lip inside them

drill or file out the pipe stop, that lets you push copper tube all the way through the fitting for attaching onto both ends use the tank connector compression nut to lock and seal the copper tube in place, and add a compression valve to one end and your internal filter/manifold to the other side, If handy with a gas gun you could also use lead free solder to fix/seal the copper tube in the tank connector, and not poke it all the way through the compression fixing allowing you to use a female 1/2" bsp fixing for filter/manifold or valve onto the tank connector directly.

+1 for 20mm and 38.5mm holes, you can always wittle a little extra size from a hole with a file, making it smaller is impossible..

Soldering sounds much less aggro than filing!!

[fisherman]

22mm hole for tap. 40 mm hole for element. I have 2 of the 60 litre boilers cannot fault them for plastic . I use 2 X 2.4 kW elements in each boiler.Great free hole cutting service remarkable value.I have used higher power elements but none without either cutting out or overheating.