Recent content by cdematteis

Put the finishing touches on the rig and conducted a water and leak test last weekend. Found a propane leak at one of the burner valves and almost lost an eyebrow, but shut everything down safely and resealed the threads. It took me a minute to figure out how to get the March pump to work...

Finally got the gas lines installed. Automation is in our future plans but for now we just want to get brewing. We used 1/2" black pipe and some fittings for the manifold and went with (3) 3' lengths of stainless steel braided hose from the manifold to the burners. We added 3 CVO250's from...

I finally got three coats of Rustoleum High Heat paint on the rig and am ready to start on the gas system. Just to get started and to be able to start brewing, I am going the propane route. I am going to run a length of 1" black pipe along the bottom of the stand with a T under each burner then...

So we avoided that problem and here's what the burners look like installed.

A real man admits his mistakes, and hopefully others will learn form them. I did not take into account the .125" thickness of the steel when measuring for the brackets. This took away another .250" from the diameter of the burner area and the BG-14's were just a hair (.25" to be exact) too big...

Bought 25 gallon Polarware kettles. The stand is large enough to accommodate the diameter of larger 55 gallon kettles so we won't to have to build a new one down the road. The kettles will rest entirely on the brackets and will not touch the frame of the stand. We will use a simple heat...

Yea, I don't have the cad skills of many people on this site, but a ruler, pencil and some graph paper never let me down.

Here are some pics of how it turned out. Thanks to my Uncle John for getting us this far. Stand should be dropped off tomorrow and we will sand it w/ 150 grit sand paper and then paint with RustOleum high heat paint.

A few months ago a friend and I decided to start all grain brewing so I joined this site. A few months have passed and while we have still not brewed our first batch, we are getting close. Initial plans were to buy one large kettle and a few buckets, but after reading through the threads I...

Brackets

Bracket Exploded

2 in sq steel tube (.125 wall), .125" brackets and 4" casters from Fazios

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Ready for paint

Burner Stand Drawing