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    Local brew shops of the Antelope Valley?

    One is opening up in quartz hill soon.
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    DIY Interwoven "Rib-Cage" Immersion Chiller

    Good job! Im glad it worked out for you. Why are you splitting the input like that? why didnt you have one hose connector that slit using a T splitter like you did on the output? The input flow is going to be restricted by T on the output, it'll act like a bottleneck. Are you using a...
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    DIY Interwoven "Rib-Cage" Immersion Chiller

    I too like the Pre-Chiller. The Pre-chiller can be used for any immersion chiller setup though.
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    DIY Interwoven "Rib-Cage" Immersion Chiller

    If your going to produce this it would be good to market with the best design. Using 50ft of continuous copper might not offer enough performance gain to get people to buy this over the traditional one-loop design. I know that making two loops work in parallel really brought my heat transfer...
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    DIY Interwoven "Rib-Cage" Immersion Chiller

    I was thinking the way you were when I first started to gather my materials for the Rib Cage Immersion Chiller (RCIC). I had experience with a 50' coil IC and was somewhat impressed so I knew there had to be a better way so I designed my RCIC [See post 130]. I used 50' of 1/4 in ID copper...
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    DIY Interwoven "Rib-Cage" Immersion Chiller

    I did mine a little different. Instead of having only one in and one out I split the rib cage into two sections. I find that the setup cools much faster. (only requires one hose in and one hose out) One rib side cools from the top down, the other cools from the bottom up. Every time i see...
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    How many brews out of 1 propane tank?

    Im new to this forum, but I recently found out some info about propane tanks. if you use new tanks from grocery strores/gas stations then the tanks are not filled completely (do some google searches, youll be surprised). If you get them refilled then you more then likely will have a full tank...
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