Adventures in Brewing

Friday, February 24, 2012

Update on the New System

So here are some pics of the new system with Quick Disconnects installed. These are from bargainfittings
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I moved the pump down to the bottom and flipped it over. It works much better down there and I don't have problems with cavitation anymore.

I also drilled a hole in the lip above the opening of the boil kettle and installed a quick disconnect there.

I put in an elbow so now when I fill up the boil kettle from the mash I can just connect into the quick disconnect and the elbow drops it straight down into the bottom of the boil kettle. Eventually all the copper will be replaced with stainless, but its expensive so copper will have to do for now. Haven't done any work on the RIMS equipment for a while. Hopefully I can finish that by the end of summer.





 

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