Not bad. I'm excited to start my own as well. Subscribed to watch the progress.
I am pondering the hole diameter needed for fittings and such on the triclover clamps passing through the deck of my stand. What I have in mind is attaching the fittings to the keg first and then feeding it through the top of the brew stand. What size hole would need to be cut to accommodate plenty of clearance from the wood to the tri-clamp hardware?
So, I ran over to Lowes today and was sorely disappointing to realize that ~22 foot /$25 remnant of 10-3 flexible power cord I saw the other day was already picked up by someone else... However, I had someone help me (from another department... the electricity department dude never showed up in 5 minutes of me standing there looking at the mass storage of cable) This lady spooled off 20 feet of flexible 10-3 and wrote down some obscure lowes product code. I went about shopping for a few more things and checked out. It wasn't till I got home (half-hour drive) that I looked at the receipt. She must have written down the wrong code or something. What should have been $35 worth of wire was actually only charged at $8!!!
I don't mess with brewing karma like that. I was at the self-serve propane station outside my local Menard's picking up a spare tank for my brewing setup and the system only charged me for a refill when I was picking up a whole tank. I thought about just walking away, but I didn't want that negative karma on my brew system. Sure, call me silly, but YOU'LL see. My next batch of beer is going to be kickass.
That's just Karma paying you back for some righteous deed you did recently man! I'd just roll with it!
Lookin GREAT! Can't wait to see how it turns out. Great deal at Lowes by the way... it might have been on purpose due to the wait. They're usually pretty cool like that.
By the way, i hate you... i hate anyone that can weild a welding/cutting/plasma torch well out of 100% jealousy. They came out looking really, really good!
Edit: After frustrations with the grinder flap disks not getting a smooth don't-cut-your-hand-off lip on my keggle cuts, i ended up trying the roughest sandpaper with my orbital on highest speed... baby soft-smooth and quick. Any tips on the flap disk though? I think i used 80 grit but it just tore it up (even after grinding off as much of the sharp parts as i could)... maybe i just got a crummy disk.
I did something similar for my false bottom.
I ended up added a few hundred .096 dia holes to it as well. After one or two stuck mashes the time at the drill press was well spent..
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