heyjaffy
Well-Known Member
After attending a intro to home brewing at my LHBS (Maryland Homebrew AKA MDHB) and seeing the instructor with a home-based water filter attached to a hose meant for drinking water, I decided to build something similar on my own today, as my brewing is set to move out of the kitchen to the patio this week.
I headed down to Home Depot and picked out a GE Household Water Filtration Unit model GXWH04F and some filters, along with some boat and camper hose. I ran home to test it out without even thinking about the mismatch between the female threading on the filter unit vs. the hose.
So began my adventure to the local non-Home Depot hardware store and you can see the damage in the picture. The threading on the filter in and out side is 3/4 pipe thread, hose end is 3/4 hose thread (go figure), pipe thread is not hose thread. The in side of the filter has a 3/4 male pipe to 3/4 male hose thread adapter. I then cut off the male end of the hose and replaced it with a female, so my hose is now female at both ends... there's a joke there somewhere. The out side of the filter has a 3/4 male pipe to 3/4 male pipe nipple attached to 3/4 to 3/4 shut off valve attached to 3/4 to 1/2 adapter attached to 1/2 male pipe to 1/2 male pipe nipple to a foot long stainless braid. I think I may have overcomplicated it, but I sure learned about pipe threading along the way and now outside brewing should be good with good water close by.
I headed down to Home Depot and picked out a GE Household Water Filtration Unit model GXWH04F and some filters, along with some boat and camper hose. I ran home to test it out without even thinking about the mismatch between the female threading on the filter unit vs. the hose.
So began my adventure to the local non-Home Depot hardware store and you can see the damage in the picture. The threading on the filter in and out side is 3/4 pipe thread, hose end is 3/4 hose thread (go figure), pipe thread is not hose thread. The in side of the filter has a 3/4 male pipe to 3/4 male hose thread adapter. I then cut off the male end of the hose and replaced it with a female, so my hose is now female at both ends... there's a joke there somewhere. The out side of the filter has a 3/4 male pipe to 3/4 male pipe nipple attached to 3/4 to 3/4 shut off valve attached to 3/4 to 1/2 adapter attached to 1/2 male pipe to 1/2 male pipe nipple to a foot long stainless braid. I think I may have overcomplicated it, but I sure learned about pipe threading along the way and now outside brewing should be good with good water close by.