david00001
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You're looking at one tin can, two coat hangers, and a hose clamp.
I roll first class
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Smashing
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saving your pennies for a new Coach purse?
Welcome to the Ugly Junk Club!
+1 haha
david00001
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If my wife sees one more Austin HB store charge on the credit card......she's gonna buy a new Coach purse!
I'd keep the can out of the wort, too. Aren't cans lined with BPA (the stuff they're NOT putting in water bottles anymore), which gets released when heated?
Looks like there is some plastic parts holding the wire to the can. Careful how the heat from the boil will deform or melt that stuff...
Ugly Junk, FTW!
TobiasFunke
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Nicely done, sir!
Considering that cans are typically heated after being filled (pasteurization) I very much doubt that heating them again would cause any problems.
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I got one thing right, that's a Edens Organic BPA-free can. Stainless I think they are actually.
Defintely not a stainless can, looks like plain steel with a non-BPA liner. All metal cans are lined to protect the can from the food inside. You be surprised by what food can do to bare metal after a few months.
+1.. beat me to it!
I'm not sure I would like it in the can. 
You can also get a garbage disposal replacement. Nice steel, larger opening. I'm sure a bit more pricey than the can, but under $20.
Are you going to tow a bus with that thing? I just kills me to see how over built most of the this stuff actually is, except of course for that can and coat hanger hop spider.
Don't see how it's overbuilt, personally. While I know some folks pride themselves on building their whole brewery out of stuff found in their closet, I would never feel comfortable with the hanger can thing. Then again, I am clumsy. I'm sure I'd stab myself on the hanger, get cut on the can, then break the thing and dump hops in the kettle.
Maybe someone less clumsy than me can make the can work for 'em.
DeanMachine
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Great, make me feel bad about mine now. lol. Overbuilt? Sure.
Definitely pretty though.
Hey OP, I'm sure the tin can will be fine for 1-3 uses, after that I would change it out. People use PVC for crying out loud. This aint rocket science. More power to ya. :rockin:
Great, make me feel bad about mine now. lol. Overbuilt? Sure.
Definitely pretty though.
Hey OP, I'm sure the tin can will be fine for 1-3 uses, after that I would change it out. People use PVC for crying out loud. This aint rocket science. More power to ya. :rockin:
Thing of beauty.
Great, make me feel bad about mine now. lol. Overbuilt? Sure.
Definitely pretty though.
Hey OP, I'm sure the tin can will be fine for 1-3 uses, after that I would change it out. People use PVC for crying out loud. This aint rocket science. More power to ya. :rockin:
Hmm... That is pretty, especially the lid for it.
That's the same piece I used. Garbage disposal replacement drain. Nice wide opening for when you're using whole hopes. I once did a IIPA with 12 ounces of leaf hops. Was a pain in the arse to get through the sink drain hop spider with it's small opening!
