Just buy a crewcraft 8 gallon bucket, they come with a threaded spot for a spigot already, so you can just drill out the back and screw in the spigot. Less chances of it failing. And 8 gallon buckets never need blow offs
Draw from above, like a short pipe and elbow?
The downside, once I had the spigot shear off at the bucket for an unknown reason. A whole bucket of Fullers London Pride Porter clone
leaked all over my beer storage area and soaked into the wood floor before I discovered it. What a mess!
The spigot on my Cooper's Micro brew FV has that slotted press-in cylinder thing. I use the red & white Italian spigots on my other fermenter & bottling bucket I built. The one on the Midwest shorty bucket is about 2" off the bottom, measured from the center-line of the mounting hole. I also use a washer cut out of this thin brown rubber material I found at Lowe's. It goes on the inside of the mounting lug first, before the white seal & lock lug.
The spigot now takes less turns/pressure to seal real well with the new seal in place. Only cost a couple bucks to get enough material & razor knife to make plenty of'em. I like how the Italian spigot has the recess on the end of the spout to fit 3/8" tubing to it for racking,etc. But as stated, always remove it & clean/sanitize it & all it's parts before cleaning the mounting hole & re-installing wet with Starsan after every use. Then their are no sanitation issues with them.
I take hydrometer samples from mine all the time. That's one of the reasons I use them. Just spray Starsan on & in the spout before & after the sample. And before racking to secondary or bottling bucket. And cleaning/sanitizing after every use to keep them clean. Doing these things, I've never had any issues.
I take hydrometer samples from mine all the time. That's one of the reasons I use them. Just spray Starsan on & in the spout before & after the sample. And before racking to secondary or bottling bucket. And cleaning/sanitizing after every use to keep them clean. Doing these things, I've never had any issues.
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