Recent content by Billinthehills

I have discovered that I can get the last of the sediment out with minimal effort by: I add my bottling sugar to my bottling bucket and then rack from the carboy to my bottling bucket after placing a large brew in the bag bag in the bucket. It can be held in place with a bungee cord and allows...

Don't put silicone gel anywhere on the plastic sheathing of the probe. The plastic is reactive to the silicone... see my two other posts, GatorDad and the mounting/location warnings in the user manual for the device. They say don't allow it in contact with wet silicone... I assume that means...

I posted a message about creating a tube and closing the end off with silicone. That would be okay as the part that is sensitive is the jacket for the wire and not the metal tip. Likewise the wire is not exposed to the silicone plug while the silicone is wet. In fact, I waited a week or more to...

I have the A419. Its hard to get a straight answer out of Johnson Controls about how waterproof the device is but as one poster said he was told it was "splash proof". That doesn't/didn't encourage me to let it soak in the beer, besides God knows what's in the plastic and will leach out, nor...