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You have tubing on the end of your ball valve to maintain a siphon, right?

Is your hydrometer accurate? Have you tried measuring distilled or RO water? Sometimes the scale can slip giving inaccurate readings. Otherwise try reading at the correct temperature rather than correcting. I have found that compensating for temperature doesn't always work out to the correct...

The cracks are small enough that they are covered by the rubber washer I am using but I still get a small leak. If I glue the washer to the mashtun it will hopefully stop the cracks from spreading and I won't need to tighten it as hard to form a seal. I intend to reinforce the outside as well...

My 48 qt cooler mash tun has developed some small cracks around the bulkhead from overtightening the washers that hold it in place. Consequently it has developed a small leak. I plan to glue a rubber washer or plastic washer over the cracked region with JB Weld or some other compound, silicone...

What kind of yeast did you start with? If you didn't use a high alcohol tolerant yeast then I don't think your gravity is going to get much lower with beano. As mentioned earlier your yeast are probably maxed out at 14% abv. Beano may increase the fermentability of the remaining sugars but if...

Kettle steeping means adding hops at flameout so not as much volatile hop aroma is lost by boiling. Typically you can steep hops for around 10 mins before cooling. Diluting bad beer with good beer is a great way to make a spoiled batch drinkable.

The lactose you added is unfermentable so will contribute to a higher FG. The 1.3lb of specialty malts will also add a higher amount of unfermentables so 1.020 sounds okay to me.