Immersion chiller

[newToBrew]

fizzy pish - before you leg it t o woodies - have a look around the forum - i recall some one posting recentlt about  some place ( maybe inside the pale ? ) that had better prices

[Will_D]

fizzy pish - before you leg it t o woodies - have a look around the forum - i recall some one posting recentlt about  some place ( maybe inside the pale ? ) that had better prices

Any plumbers merchants will be a lot cheaper than W or BnQ

[RichC]

That stuff in woodies is very reasonably priced particularly as it doesn't need to be wound. Barrets in Maynooth charge €2.80 a metre and you'll have to wind it around a form yourself. I think Bren quoted a similar price to Barrets before for some merchant in Kildare town. You'll save €3 going to Barrets for a 10 metre length and you'll have a lot more work to do

[newToBrew]

fair point Lars  ... I guess thats what I get for repeating idle gossip !!!

[Hop Bomb]

You'll still have to form the chiller with the woodies copper coil. Its over 20 inches in diameter & is only wrapped around three times. I made mine from one. It does help though & is much easier than bending a straight length to shape.

[fizzypish]

This is all good stuff. Good food for thought.
Rough plan:
1. Get 10 M of coiled 10mm pipe and 1.5 - 2 M of straight pipe
2. A few elbow joints, some lead free solder and another mini pot of gas for the torch
3. Coil the copper around a big cook pot from home 6 -7 coils spaced tighter together at the top. Might heat it with the torch as I go. Any extra heat is bound to help prevent a kink.
4. Using the elbow joints and and straight piping make the inlet (top) and outlet (bottom) piece.
5. buy a cheap hose pipe, cut it in half and force it over the inlet and outlet. Secure with Jubilee Clip's.

Sound for the advice!

[JimmyM]

Heating it as you bend turns it into a 2 man job. Theres really no need for heat when bending around anything the size of a corny or bigger - you wont get kinks there.

You only need to worry about kinks when bending the pipe to come back up - but you say you're going to solder.

[RichC]

You'll still have to form the chiller with the woodies copper coil. Its over 20 inches in diameter & is only wrapped around three times. I made mine from one. It does help though & is much easier than bending a straight length to shape.

There's coils of this stuff in woodies Lucan plumbing section that's actually wound into about a 10 inch diameter. That was last time I checked but it was a while ago. Might be worth ringing them before calling

[Shanna]

Jubilee clips are good but why not a compression fitting. Then attach some standard garden Hose into the compression fitting at one end and a standard garden Hose connection at the other end.

Shanna

This is all good stuff. Good food for thought.
Rough plan:
1. Get 10 M of coiled 10mm pipe and 1.5 - 2 M of straight pipe
2. A few elbow joints, some lead free solder and another mini pot of gas for the torch
3. Coil the copper around a big cook pot from home 6 -7 coils spaced tighter together at the top. Might heat it with the torch as I go. Any extra heat is bound to help prevent a kink.
4. Using the elbow joints and and straight piping make the inlet (top) and outlet (bottom) piece.
5. buy a cheap hose pipe, cut it in half and force it over the inlet and outlet. Secure with Jubilee Clip's.

Sound for the advice!

[Kevco5]

You'll still have to form the chiller with the woodies copper coil. Its over 20 inches in diameter & is only wrapped around three times. I made mine from one. It does help though & is much easier than bending a straight length to shape.

There's coils of this stuff in woodies Lucan plumbing section that's actually wound into about a 10 inch diameter. That was last time I checked but it was a while ago. Might be worth ringing them before calling

I think the pre-wound 10inch diameter is 8mm copper pipe, it's what I used for my own chiller. I can't find a link for it though.

[DEMPSEY]

You can buy hose connectors and matching tap/type connectors in B&Q or others,cheap as chips,allows you to simply connect to your copper coil. fitting connects to a 1/2" brass fitting so if you are using a smaller copper pipe then you will need to use a reducer brass fitting.

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[Ciderhead]

@fizzy those springs are very good and allowed me to shape bends out of the bottom and over the top of the bucket