Professor Frink
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So I've started to make a mash tun from a 48 qt rubbermaid cooler, however I'm having trouble finding either flange nuts or washers that would work well to put up against the wall of the cooler - the wall isn't flush, so when I try to put a washer in there, there's a gap. The nipple pipe thingy fits relatively snug, so I was thinking about using epoxy to secure it in the hole in the cooler, and then putting a layer of silicone over the epoxy to waterproof it. This way, the nipple pipe would be permanently in the tun, but I would be able to remove the compression to the manifold as well as the ball valve on the other side. Has anyone had any experience with this?
Also, I've been reading that with a cooler this big that sometimes the grain bed isn't all that deep for a 5 gal batch. Would it make more sense to do 10 gal. batches with this setup (I was thinking doing a 6 gal boil from the sparge and splitting it into 2 fermenters and bringing them up to 5 gal. each).
Thanks, I'm getting pretty excited about moving to all grain:rockin:
Also, I've been reading that with a cooler this big that sometimes the grain bed isn't all that deep for a 5 gal batch. Would it make more sense to do 10 gal. batches with this setup (I was thinking doing a 6 gal boil from the sparge and splitting it into 2 fermenters and bringing them up to 5 gal. each).
Thanks, I'm getting pretty excited about moving to all grain:rockin: