Pump deal

I'm not affiliated with Harbor Freight, but I know a lot of people use a pump for cooling their wort and thought that $40 was a hell of a lot better than $80.

http://widgets.harborfreight.com/ws...tml&single=true&cust=00136102840&keycode=0000

PM me if it doesn't work, I'll email you the coupon.

Thoughts on how sanitary you can keep this thing?

You can't. But it could be used for prechilling water in an IC, or for building a keg/carboy washer.

Chad_C said:

You can't. But it could be used for prechilling water in an IC, or for building a keg/carboy washer.

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These are the exact uses I'm going to have for this pump. I will be brewing indoors (all electric) and bringing in (and draining) water is a big PITA.

johnodon said:

Thoughts on how sanitary you can keep this thing?

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Chad_C said:

You can't. But it could be used for prechilling water in an IC, or for building a keg/carboy washer.

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Yeah, it's not for wort handling for sure. Might also be overkill for chilling water as well. 3700GPH is a lot! Many of the recirculating ice water chillers use a small pond/fountain pump. Like this 258 GPH one for only $15.

Oh, and I have that pump the OP posted as a keg washer.

I use a harbor freight submersible pump to pump ice water through my IC, and will use it with my plate chiller soon.

The pump I use is the 160GPH model. It was $9, on sale for $6, or something like that. Really cheap, but it works great. In fact, I will probably have to throttle back the flow with my plate chiller.

Neat thing is that Harbor Freight is right down the street from the LHBS, so I can hit them both in one trip.

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that pump would indeed be overkill. I have one and use it in for pumping liquid ferts in my competition pumpkin patch. Hooked to a waterhose with a stream nozzle on it I can cover a 35 foot radius area. Good pump but it moves alot of liquid.

Looks like a great pond pump. I'm getting one.

If you go into a Harbor Freight store and they don't have it, will they order it and spare you the shipping?