Upgrade of equipment

[Hop Bomb]

Is there any advantage to having a separate keg for HLT & boiler? Ive got one 50L keggle that I use for both purposes.

[DEMPSEY]

When yo are sparging the grains in the mash tun,are you not drawing this from your HLT and as you do,where is the wort being run off the mash tun going to.  :-/

[Hop Bomb]

When yo are sparging the grains in the mash tun,are you not drawing this from your HLT and as you do,where is the wort being run off the mash tun going to.  :-/

I run the wort into 2 fermentor buckets. Is that the only purpose for having separate HLT & boiler?

[DEMPSEY]

Pretty much,although if you have hard water does the lime scale not be lying in the bottom of the HLT not have to be cleaned out before you put the wort in to boil it. Having a HLT and a Kettle is handier.

[Shanna]

Hi Will

I pasted the link in case any body else wanted to buy a keg.  I am sorted on this front already so I will leave somebody else do the running on this.

Shanna

Sorry guys brain fart I misread the product code as the price.  I did find it strange at the time that price was only shown for only one product type.

Shanna

Would you ever contact them and get a price?

[imark]

Got about 15m from a friend who's dad work with it.

Is it just underfloor heating cable? If so does that get hot enough for the mash tun?

[Hop Bomb]

Pretty much,although if you have hard water does the lime scale not be lying in the bottom of the HLT not have to be cleaned out before you put the wort in to boil it. Having a HLT and a Kettle is handier.

I never have a limescale problem as my keg has 5 litres of dead space below the tap. I keep that water in another bucket for cleaning so the keg is clean & empty & ready for the boil. Reading back though I realised I was using three buckets (2 for the wort & 1 for the leftover sparge water).

I had another 50L keg here & a SS weldless ball valve kit so I made a HLT this morning. More shiny things  

[Rats]

Small update from last time.
Still waiting for my timer and I broke my pump while fiddling with the fittings

[Ciderhead]

Fiddling with you fittings results in blindness but very impressed!
2nd keg on right is identifiable , please take a pic top down on MT?
Where did you find your kettle leads, I like the length?

[Rats]

Where did you find your kettle leads, I like the length?

Not sure might be from the wife's work.(She's IT)
Will get a pic of the MT asap.
The one on the MT is not kettle lead.It is a normal 2 core flat wire with a kettle lead plug.

[Ciderhead]

why are all these screens blank
Suitable qualified electrician person please let me know if I can rob screen cables from my work and replace 5 with 13A fuses for my 2 -2.2Kw elements?

[rukkus]

I wouldnt be an expert but i've read before that computer leads are bad for this kind of thing and can melt.

[Ciderhead]

 

[Rats]

I wouldnt be an expert but i've read before that computer leads are bad for this kind of thing and can melt.

You get 2 different types.A heavy duty one that some of the UPS systems use and your normal pc one.Try to get the thicker cable.

[Rats]

Work in progress.Still a lot of finishing to do on them.
Manifold from my old cooler box.
Thinking of building a new round one.Something like