ghack
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Finished this up this weekend. It just needs a cleaning and a boil, and its ready to go. I decide to upgrade my old 20' coil of 1/4" tubing. I had a leftover 10' length, dismantled my first attempt at a semi-counterflow and sometimes pre-chiller for another 10 and added 20' more.
So I now have 60 of tubing held in two coils in a 1/2 copper frame.
I will be looking to get a pump to recirculate ice water once the domestic water gets to its normal 75 to 80 degrees in the summer.
I kept the height fairly low, as I typically do five gallon batches. But it should work fine for ten gallons. The center coil sits about two inches higher than the outer. The diameter allows it to fit in a standard five gallon bucket for cleaning and storage.
The support arms are standard 1/2 plumbing copper and fitting. I took the idea of drilling the supports from keelanfishs design in the thread https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/immersion-chiller-alternate-design-98181/#post1069585, which is tad more elaborate than I had the inclination for. Only the two supports are drilled to support the bottom and top, and I added a handle to carry it without grabbing the actual tubing.
The lowest cross-bar sits on the side of the domed bottom of my keggle and leaves a pretty good gap. If it encounters too much of the hot break, Ill add some kind of feet to lift it up a little.
So I now have 60 of tubing held in two coils in a 1/2 copper frame.
I will be looking to get a pump to recirculate ice water once the domestic water gets to its normal 75 to 80 degrees in the summer.
I kept the height fairly low, as I typically do five gallon batches. But it should work fine for ten gallons. The center coil sits about two inches higher than the outer. The diameter allows it to fit in a standard five gallon bucket for cleaning and storage.
The support arms are standard 1/2 plumbing copper and fitting. I took the idea of drilling the supports from keelanfishs design in the thread https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/immersion-chiller-alternate-design-98181/#post1069585, which is tad more elaborate than I had the inclination for. Only the two supports are drilled to support the bottom and top, and I added a handle to carry it without grabbing the actual tubing.
The lowest cross-bar sits on the side of the domed bottom of my keggle and leaves a pretty good gap. If it encounters too much of the hot break, Ill add some kind of feet to lift it up a little.